Air, Atmosphere, & Weather

COLLEGE STATION, Texas, July 14 (UPI) — U.S. researchers are using weather balloons to take air samples above the gulf oil spill and improve weather forecasting in the affected region, officials say.
A Texas A&M University atmospheric science researcher and his students have launched balloons to gather data they hope will complement the ongoing [...]

SEATTLE, July 8 (UPI) — Exposure to air pollution during pregnancy does not appear to increase the risk of preterm delivery or pre-eclampsia, a U.S. researcher says.
Carole Rudra of the University at Buffalo in New York says strong evidence that air pollutants may increase risk of cardiovascular disease led her to examine air pollutants [...]

HERSHEY, Pa., April 12 (UPI) — U.S. medical fertility scientists say they’ve found exposure to nitrogen dioxide and other air pollutants can affect the success of in vitro fertilization.
The team said it examined the outcomes of the first pregnancy attempts of 7,403 women undergoing IVF at Penn State University’s Hershey Medical Center, Shady [...]

GREENBELT, Md., April 8 (UPI) — The U.S. space agency says its unpiloted aircraft called Global Hawk has successfully completed its first science flight over the Pacific Ocean.
NASA said the flight was the first of five scheduled for the Pacific, or GloPac, mission to study atmospheric science over the Pacific and Arctic oceans.
“The [...]

BERKELEY, Calif., March 24 (UPI) — U.S. scientists hypothesize Jupiter’s interior conditions cause helium to condense into droplets, explaining the scarcity of neon in the plant’s atmosphere.
University of California-Berkeley scientists say neon dissolves in the helium raindrops and falls towards the deeper interior where it re-dissolves, depleting the upper layers of both elements, consistent [...]