 The Sky is Falling May 01, 2006 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 32 vote(s)
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Up on the Moon, the sky is falling. "Every day, more than a metric ton of meteoroids hits the Moon," says Bill Cooke of the Marshall Space Flight Center's Meteoroid Environment Office. They literally fall out ... | |
Giant garbage patch floating in Pacific October 22, 2007 | User rating: 2.9 / 5 after 317 vote(s)
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An enormous island of trash twice the size of Texas is floating in the Pacific Ocean somewhere between San Francisco and Hawaii. | |
White roofs, streets could curb global warming September 17, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 108 vote(s)
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The idea of painting our roofs and roads white to offset global warming is not new, but a recent study has calculated just how significantly white surfaces could impact greenhouse gas emissions. Last week, researchers at ... | |
 Solstice Moon Illusion June 17, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 60 vote(s)
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Sometimes you just can't believe your eyes. This week is one of those times. On Wednesday night, June 18th, step outside at sunset and look around. You'll see a giant form rising in the east. At first glance ... | |
 Astronomers find gaping hole in the Universe August 23, 2007 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 243 vote(s)
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University of Minnesota astronomers have found an enormous hole in the Universe, nearly a billion light-years across, empty of both normal matter such as stars, galaxies and gas, as well as the mysterious, ... | |
 Titan's surface organics surpass oil reserves on Earth February 13, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 85 vote(s)
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Saturn’s orange moon Titan has hundreds of times more liquid hydrocarbons than all the known oil and natural gas reserves on Earth, according to new Cassini data. The hydrocarbons rain from the sky, collecting ... | |
 Magnetic Portals Connect Sun and Earth October 31, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 149 vote(s)
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During the time it takes you to read this article, something will happen high overhead that until recently many scientists didn't believe in. A magnetic portal will open, linking Earth to the sun 93 million ... | |
 Closest Look Ever at the Edge of a Black Hole September 03, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 119 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers have taken the closest look ever at the giant black hole in the center of the Milky Way. By combining telescopes in Hawaii, Arizona, and California, they detected structure at ... | |
 First Analysis of the Water Requirements of a Hydrogen Economy October 18, 2007 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 127 vote(s)
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One of the touted benefits of the futuristic US hydrogen economy is that the hydrogen supply—in the form of water—is virtually limitless. This assumption is taken for granted so much that no major study has ... | |
 Earth would be heading to a freeze without CO2 emissions November 12, 2008 | User rating: 3.5 / 5 after 77 vote(s)
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Scheduled shifts in Earth's orbit should plunge the planet into an enduring Ice Age thousands of years from now but the event will probably be averted because of man-made greenhouse gases, scientists said ... | |
 Crescent Moon Alert April 07, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 25 vote(s)
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The date was March 8th, less than a month ago. In a remote corner of Kansas, the sun was going down and the deepening twilight beckoned to photographer Doug Zubenel driving through the countryside. Something ... | |
 Scientists confirm that parts of earliest genetic material may have come from the stars June 13, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 92 vote(s)
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Scientists have confirmed for the first time that an important component of early genetic material which has been found in meteorite fragments is extraterrestrial in origin, in a paper published on 15 June ... | |
 A galactic fossil: Star is found to be 13.2 billion years old May 10, 2007 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 119 vote(s)
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How old are the oldest stars" Using ESO's VLT, astronomers recently measured the age of a star located in our Galaxy. The star, a real fossil, is found to be 13.2 billion years old, not very far from the 13.7 ... | |
 'Revolutionary' CO2 maps zoom in on greenhouse gas sources April 07, 2008 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 45 vote(s)
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A new, high- resolution, interactive map of U.S. carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels has found that the emissions aren't all where we thought. | |
 The 2008 Perseid Meteor Shower July 22, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 23 vote(s)
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Mark your calendar: The 2008 Perseid meteor shower peaks on August 12th and it should be a good show. | |
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