Could hadron collider devour the Earth? June 28, 2008 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 48 vote(s)
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Particle colliders creating black holes that could devour the Earth. Sounds like a great Hollywood script. But, according to UC Santa Barbara Physics Professor Steve Giddings, it's pure fiction. | |
 Deep Impact Films Earth as an Alien World July 18, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 32 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft has created a video of the moon transiting (passing in front of) Earth as seen from the spacecraft's point of view 31 million miles away. Scientists are using ... | |
 What's Wrong with the Sun? (Nothing) July 11, 2008 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 42 vote(s)
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Stop the presses! The sun is behaving normally. So says NASA solar physicist David Hathaway. "There have been some reports lately that Solar Minimum is lasting longer than it should. That's not true. The ongoing ... | |
Gore sets energy goal for next president to heed July 17, 2008 | User rating: 1.8 / 5 after 23 vote(s)
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(AP) -- Just as John F. Kennedy set his sights on the moon, Al Gore is challenging the nation to produce every kilowatt of electricity through wind, sun and other Earth-friendly energy sources within 10 years, an audacious ... | |
 Maverick scientists probe Siberian forest mystery July 01, 2008 | User rating: 3.1 / 5 after 34 vote(s)
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Was it a gigantic meteorite? A tremendous bolt of lightning? Perhaps the crash of a UFO the size of Tokyo? No one is certain of the answer to one of the 20th century's greatest scientific mysteries -- the ... | |
 Moon water discovered: Dampens Moon-formation theory July 09, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 63 vote(s)
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Using new techniques, scientists have discovered for the first time that tiny beads of volcanic glasses collected from two Apollo missions to the Moon contain water. The researchers found that, contrary to ... | |
 NASA engineers work on alternative moon rocket July 14, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 56 vote(s)
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(AP) -- By day, the engineers work on NASA's new Ares moon rockets. By night, some go undercover to work on a competing design. These dissenting scientists and their backers insist they have created an alternative ... | |
 100 years on, mystery shrouds massive 'cosmic impact' in Russia June 29, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 68 vote(s)
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A hundred years ago this week, a gigantic explosion ripped open the dawn sky above the swampy taiga forest of western Siberia, leaving a scientific riddle that endures to this day. | |
 Only seven years left for global warming target: UN panel chief July 04, 2008 | User rating: 2.9 / 5 after 33 vote(s)
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The head of the UN's Nobel-winning panel of climate scientists on Friday said only seven years remained for stabilising emissions of global-warming gases at a level widely considered safe. | |
NASA to Attempt Historic Solar Sail Deployment June 27, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 52 vote(s)
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"Hold your hands out to the sun. What do you feel? Heat, of course. But there's pressure as well – though you've never noticed it, because it's so tiny. Over the area of your hands, it only comes to about a millionth of an ... | |
 Wilkins Ice Shelf hanging by its last thread July 10, 2008 | User rating: 3.3 / 5 after 27 vote(s)
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The Wilkins Ice Shelf is experiencing further disintegration that is threatening the collapse of the ice bridge connecting the shelf to Charcot Island. Since the connection to the island in the image centre ... | |
 Phoenix Mars Lander Works Through the Night July 22, 2008 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 16 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- To coordinate with observations made by an orbiter flying repeatedly overhead, NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander is working a schedule Monday that includes staying awake all night for the first time. ... | |
 Los Angeles bans plastic bagging in stores July 23, 2008 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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The city of Los Angeles announced it will ban all plastic bags from retail stores as of July 1, 2010, following similar anti-pollution regulations already enforced in San Francisco. | |
Surprisingly rapid changes in the Earth's core discovered July 07, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 65 vote(s)
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In a recent paper published in Nature Geoscience, the geophysicist Mioara MANDEA from the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam and her Danish colleague Nils OLSEN from the National Space Institute/DTU ... | |
The sun could be having a 15% or 20% effect on climate change July 18, 2008 | User rating: 2.8 / 5 after 26 vote(s)
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Global warming is mainly caused by greenhouse gas emissions resulting from human activities; however, current climatic variations may be affected “around 15% or 20%” by solar activity, according to the researcher Manuel Vázquez ... | |
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