Global climate models both agree and disagree with actual Antarctic data May 07, 2008 | User rating: 2.7 / 5 after 19 vote(s)
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Scientists who compared recorded Antarctic temperatures and snowfall accumulation to predictions by major computer models of global climate change offer both good and bad news. | |
 Strange star stumps astronomers May 16, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 59 vote(s)
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An obese oddball of a star has left astronomers wondering how it could have formed. Dr David Champion and his colleagues at CSIRO’s Australia Telescope National Facility publish their findings about the star ... | |
 NASA Plans to Visit the Sun June 10, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 35 vote(s)
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For more than 400 years, astronomers have studied the sun from afar. Now NASA has decided to go there. "We are going to visit a living, breathing star for the first time," says program scientist Lika Guhathakurta ... | |
Doritos makes history with world's first extraterrestrial advert June 12, 2008 | User rating: 2.2 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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Today Doritos makes history, taking the UK's first step in communicating with aliens as they broadcast the first ever advert directed towards potential extra terrestrial life. The University of Leicester has played a key ... | |
 Jellyfish outbreaks a sign of nature out of sync June 18, 2008 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 37 vote(s)
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The dramatic proliferation of jellyfish in oceans around the world, driven by overfishing and climate change, is a sure sign of ecosystems out of kilter, warn experts. | |
 Greenland ice core analysis shows drastic climate change near end of last ice age June 19, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 46 vote(s)
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Temperatures spiked 22 degrees F in just 50 years, researchers say
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Climate change -- research suggests it is not a swindle April 03, 2008 | User rating: 2.6 / 5 after 41 vote(s)
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New research has dealt a blow to the skeptics who argue that climate change is all due to cosmic rays rather than to man-made greenhouse gases. The new evidence shows no reliable connection between the cosmic ray intensity ... | |
Floridians believe global warming will have dangerous impacts on the state June 24, 2008 | User rating: 3 / 5 after 34 vote(s)
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Residents want government to do more to address climate change
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 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 ... | |
 Solar evidence points to human causes of climate change February 19, 2008 | User rating: 2.6 / 5 after 71 vote(s)
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It’s getting harder and harder to blame the sun for causing the gradual increase in global temperatures that are now being seen in the climate record, scientists said today. | |
 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. | |
Current melting of Greenland's ice mimicks 1920s-1940s event December 10, 2007 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 42 vote(s)
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Two researchers spent months scouring through old expedition logs and reports, and reviewing 70-year-old maps and photos before making a surprising discovery. | |
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