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  NASA is teaming up with public health organizations to create a pollen alert system that could help
Pollen Alert!
NASA is teaming up with public health organizations to create a pollen alert system that could help people with maladies ranging from common hay fever to serious heart and lung diseases.
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  To improve hurricane forecasting, NASA engineers are spending time in a spooky room where 'no one ca
Spooky Hurricane Science
To improve hurricane forecasting, NASA engineers are spending time in a spooky room where 'no one can hear you scream.'
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  NASA scientists are preparing to launch a "flying tractor" with microwave sensors to explore the nit
The Realm of Earthworms: NASA Gets Down to the Nitty-Gritty
NASA scientists are preparing to launch a "flying tractor" with microwave sensors to explore the nitty-gritty realm beneath your feet.
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  NASA scientists are using an infra-red sounder in space to improve short-term weather forecasting.
NASA Works to Improve Short-term Weather Forecasts
NASA scientists are using an infra-red sounder in space to improve short-term weather forecasting.
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  New research by NASA-supported scientists shows how atmospheric gravity waves, the kind we often see
Gravity Waves Make Tornadoes
New research by NASA-supported scientists shows how atmospheric gravity waves, the kind we often see rippling in clouds overhead, can hit a thunderstorm and turn it into a deadly tornado.
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  A cutting-edge laboratory has opened in Alabama. It's mission: to combat diseases ranging from asth
Radical New Lab Fights Disease Using Satellites
A cutting-edge laboratory has opened in Alabama. Its mission: to combat diseases ranging from asthma to malaria to stroke using data from NASA satellites. Space scientists and public health officials are working together to train the doctors of tomorrow in this far-out approach to medicine.
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  Improving Drought Forecasts
From the deserts of the American southwest to the pine forests of the Deep South, drought-weary residents have one thing on their minds: "I wish it would rain!" Technically, what they should be wishing for is "more streamflow." Find out why in today's story.
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  In the Blink of a Hurricane's Eye
NASA-supported scientists are working on a new device to help predict the sudden transformation of tropical storms to deadly hurricanes.
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  Giant Atmospheric Waves Sighted Over Iowa
Last week, cameras in Iowa captured a giant atmospheric wave passing over Des Moines--see the movie in today's story. Atmospheric scientists believe these waves, called undular bores, may be more common and important than previously thought.
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