 'Calm before storm' may foreshadow climatic tipping point September 17, 2008 | User rating: 3.6 / 5 after 132 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Abrupt climate change has occurred on earth many times over the past millions of years. Climate scientists hypothesize that these sharp transitions may be caused when the earth system reaches ... | |
 Cassini Images Bizarre Hexagon on Saturn March 27, 2007 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 74 vote(s)
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An odd, six-sided, honeycomb-shaped feature circling the entire north pole of Saturn has captured the interest of scientists with NASA's Cassini mission. | |
 Unconventional natural gas reservoir in Pennsylvania poised to dramatically increase US Production January 17, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 28 vote(s)
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Natural gas distributed throughout the Marcellus black shale in northern Appalachia could conservatively boost proven U.S. reserves by trillions of cubic feet if gas production companies employ horizontal ... | |
Asteroid heads for Earth, Russian astronomer claims October 02, 2007 | User rating: 3.6 / 5 after 69 vote(s)
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An asteroid discovered three years ago could be a threat in 2029 when it crosses Earth's orbit, a Russian astronomer said Monday. | |
 Big quakes spark jolts worldwide May 25, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 37 vote(s)
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Until 1992, when California’s magnitude-7.3 Landers earthquake set off small jolts as far away as Yellowstone National Park, scientists did not believe large earthquakes sparked smaller tremors at distant ... | |
 Supercomputer Unleashes Virtual 9.0 Megaquake in Pacific Northwest February 26, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 55 vote(s)
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On January 26, 1700, at about 9 p.m. local time, the Juan de Fuca plate beneath the ocean in the Pacific Northwest suddenly moved, slipping some 60 feet eastward beneath the North American plate in a monster ... | |
Chicago to turn off lights for one hour February 16, 2008 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 40 vote(s)
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Chicago plans to join more than 20 other cities and shut off exterior lights on public buildings for an hour in an effort to raise environmental awareness. | |
Renewable energy wrecks environment, scientist claims July 24, 2007 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 46 vote(s)
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Renewable does not mean green. That is the claim of Jesse Ausubel of the Rockefeller University in New York. Writing in Inderscience's International Journal of Nuclear Governance, Economy and Ecology, Ausubel explains ... | |
 NASA to Beam Beatles' 'Across the Universe' Into Space February 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 24 vote(s)
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For the first time ever, NASA will beam a song -- The Beatles' "Across the Universe" -- directly into deep space at 7 p.m. EST on Feb. 4. | |
 Yellowstone rising: Volcano inflating with molten rock at record rate November 08, 2007 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 67 vote(s)
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The Yellowstone “supervolcano” rose at a record rate since mid-2004, likely because a Los Angeles-sized, pancake-shaped blob of molten rock was injected 6 miles beneath the slumbering giant, University of ... | |
 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 ... | |
 Antarctic ice shelf disintegrating as result of climate change, say scientists March 25, 2008 | User rating: 3.5 / 5 after 53 vote(s)
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Satellite imagery from the University of Colorado at Boulder's National Snow and Ice Data Center shows a portion of Antarctica's massive Wilkins Ice Shelf has begun to collapse because of rapid climate change ... | |
 Voyager 2 proves solar system is squashed December 10, 2007 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 121 vote(s)
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NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft has followed its twin Voyager 1 into the solar system's final frontier, a vast region at the edge of our solar system where the solar wind runs up against the thin gas between the ... | |
 Mystery Comet Explodes into Brightness October 26, 2007 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 28 vote(s)
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A once-faint comet has made a sudden leap from obscurity to center stage. Comet 17P/Holmes, now visible to northern hemisphere residents, increased its brightness by a factor of one million this week, going ... | |
 Carbon dioxide did not end the last Ice Age September 27, 2007 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 59 vote(s)
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Carbon dioxide did not cause the end of the last ice age, a new study in Science suggests, contrary to past inferences from ice core records. | |
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