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Mysterious ocean currents discovered
U.S. scientists say they've discovered striped patterns of
currents in every ocean on the planet, although what causes
them is a mystery. Peter Niiler of the Scripps Institution of
Oceanography and colleagues collected data from more than 10,000
ocean buoys they tracked by satellite from 1992-2003. As expected,
the buoys' movements were influenced mainly by known global
currents. But when the team analyzed the data, it found
something else was influencing the buoys -- alternating strips
of water running eastward or westward, similar to parallel
moving sidewalks. Niiler recalls his reaction: "My God, we've
never seen these before." To confirm the currents were real,
the team set out to measure them directly in two regions of
the eastern Pacific. The researchers told New Science magazine
they found the approximately 93-mile-wide adjacent currents
cover nearly every ocean on Earth and reach to the ocean floor.
The study that included Nikolai Maximenko of the University of
Hawaii and Hideharu Sasaki of the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth
Science and Technology is detailed in the April 24 issue of the
journal Geophysical Research Letters.
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Scientists identify new neurologic illness
Scientists have identified an illness affecting workers at
several U.S. pork processing plants as a disease of the
peripheral nerves and spinal nerve roots. Neurologists said
the disorder causes symptoms ranging from inflammation of the
spinal cord to mild weakness, fatigue, numbness and tingling
in arms and legs. Researchers classify the condition as an
immune polyradiculoneuropathy and it has been referred to as
a progressive inflammatory neuropathy. Researchers said such
illnesses have been reported at pork processing plants in
Indiana, Nebraska and Minnesota. "This appears to be a new
syndrome of immune-mediated polyradiculoneuropathy, or more
simply, a novel neurological disorder caused by an immune
system response to something in the workplace environment
shared by these individuals," said study author Dr. Daniel
Lachance of the Mayo Clinic. The research findings were
described in the Feb. 8 issue of the journal Morbidity and
Mortality Weekly Report and were presented this month in
Chicago at the annual meeting of the American Academy of
Neurology.
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The ESA says GIOVE-B is safely in orbit
The European Space Agency said Monday its second Galileo
experimental navigation satellite was in orbit around the
Earth. The satellite lifted-off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome
in Kazakhstan at Saturday evening and was orbiting at an
altitude of about 125 miles, carrying the most accurate atomic
clock ever flown into space. The 1,100-pound satellite will
continue the testing of critical technologies for Europe's
planned $5.3 billion global positioning system that's expected
to become operational in 2013. The satellite, called
GIOVE-B -- Galileo in Orbit Validation Element -- carries
two redundant small-size rubidium atomic clocks, each with
a stability of 10 nanoseconds per day, the ESA said, noting
it also is carrying a Passive Hydrogen Maser with a stability
better than 1 nanosecond per day. The first of its kind to be
launched into space, the PHM is the most stable clock ever to
operate in Earth orbit, officials said. In addition to its
technology-demonstration mission, GIOVE-B will also take over
GIOVE-A's mission to secure the Galileo frequencies, as the
first Galileo satellite -- launched in December 2005 -- is
approaching the end of its operational life.
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