Articles By Larry O'Hanlon : Discovery News

Measuring Waves Without Getting Wet

Posted Mon Jan 10, 2011 11:00 PM ET | 0

Storm swells that pound at coastlines -- thrilling surfers and worrying coastal engineers -- have always been hard to monitor. Read more

New Clue May Solve Solar Mystery

Posted Thu Jan 6, 2011 02:00 PM ET | 0

Why is the sun's atmosphere hotter than its surface? A new finding brings us one step closer to the answer. Read more

Dust in the Wind Behaves Like Broken Glass

Posted Wed Jan 5, 2011 12:16 PM ET | 0

Airborne dust seems to settle like broken glass, concludes a new finding that could help improve climate models. Read more

Dogs Don't Notice Nutty Behavior in People

Posted Wed Jan 5, 2011 10:20 AM ET | 0

Crazy dog owners? Dogs don't care. Canines are a lot better at seeing past irrational human behaviors than once thought. Read more

Bering Sea Floor Yields Clues to Our Warming Future

Posted Tue Jan 4, 2011 11:33 AM ET | 0

Cores retrieved from the Bering Sea floor indicate the region was ice-free all year and animal life was rich during the last major warm period. Read more

Chocolate Genome Mapped

Posted Wed Dec 29, 2010 02:14 PM ET | 0

Tinkering the genome for cacao trees won't change the flavor of chocolate, molecular biologists promise. Read more

How Low Can Life Go?

Posted Mon Dec 27, 2010 09:49 AM ET | 0

A thriving realm of subterranean, submarine microbes could play an important role in the global carbon budget. Read more

Got the Winter Blues? Weather's Effect on Mood Revealed

Posted Mon Dec 20, 2010 08:28 AM ET | 0

As we near the shortest day of the year, scientists find that people fall into one of four categories when it comes to moods and weather. Read more

Antarctic Melting as Deep Ocean Heat Rises

Posted Tue Dec 14, 2010 09:54 AM ET | 0

Melting along the Antarctic coast has researchers realizing that the deep sea has been holding Earth's warming. Read more

Dead Whales Foster Ocean of Life

Posted Fri Dec 10, 2010 07:00 AM ET | 0

Entire generations of crabs, worms and other deep-sea animals can survive for years on a single whale carcass. Read more

Sperm Whales Cleared Out After Gulf Oil Spill

Posted Tue Dec 7, 2010 10:54 AM ET | 0

Sperm whales showed good sense after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, acoustic surveys show. They left. Read more

Ancient Mega-Lake Found in Egyptian Desert

Posted Fri Dec 3, 2010 07:00 AM ET | 0

One of the driest places in the world was once home to a lush lake nearly the size of Lake Michigan. Read more

Early Heat Waves Are Deadliest

Posted Tue Nov 30, 2010 12:15 PM ET | 0

At a time when climate scientists are predicting more frequent and longer heat waves, this isn't good news. Read more

'David and Goliath' Black Hole Clashes Analyzed

Posted Mon Nov 22, 2010 02:13 PM ET | 0

What happens when one black hole takes on another 100 times more massive? The answer will test the limits of Einstein's General Relativity. Read more

Earthquakes Threaten Panama Canal and City

Posted Mon Nov 22, 2010 08:49 AM ET | 0

Two large earthquake faults could expose the Panama Canal to serious shaking and perhaps damage. Read more