Editor’s Selections: Radiation from TSA scanners, Studying climate change with elephant seals, And the changing landscape of Africa?
July 9th, 2012 Editor's Selections 8 Comments
Sarah Kendrew selects interesting and notable ResearchBlogging.org posts in the physical sciences, chemistry, engineering, computer science, geosciences and mathematics. She blogs about astronomy at One Small Step.
On Smaller Questions, a guest post by Tripp Jones on radiation levels from TSA scanners was pretty interesting reading.
Scientists have enlisted the help of elephant seals to study climate change in the Antarctic. Sensors mounted on the seals’ head return valuable data of conditions in the oceans beneath the ice. Elephant seals: the new grad students?
More on climate change, GrrlScientist describes new research into how CO2 and rainfall levels might affect vegetation in Africa. Will it spell the end of the savannas?
That’s it for the week. I’ll be back next Monday with more selections.
