Space Shuttle Atlantis To Move To Launch Pad Saturday August 26, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(PhysOrg.com) -- Space shuttle Atlantis is scheduled to roll out to Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on Saturday, Aug. 30. Atlantis is targeted to lift off Oct. 8 to repair the Hubble Space Telescope. | |
Protection zones in the wrong place to prevent coral reef collapse August 26, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(PhysOrg.com) -- Conservation zones are in the wrong place to protect vulnerable coral reefs from the effects of global warming, an international team of scientists warned today. | |
Strong quake rattles New Zealand, minor damage reported August 25, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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A strong earthquake measuring 5.9 on the Richter scale rocked the east coast of New Zealand's North Island late Monday, scientists said. | |
 Most Black Holes Might Come in Only Small and Large August 20, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 32 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Black holes are sometimes huge cosmic beasts, billions of times the mass of our sun, and sometimes petite with just a few times the sun's mass. But do black holes also come in size medium? ... | |
 Rosetta spacecraft meets asteroid Steins August 25, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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ESA's Rosetta spacecraft will make a historic encounter with asteroid (2867) Steins on 5 September 2008. | |
 Mid-Depth Soil Collected for Lab Test On NASA's Mars Lander August 22, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has scooped up a soil sample from an intermediate depth between the ground surface and a subsurface icy layer. The sample was delivered to a laboratory oven on the spacecraft. | |
 Earthquakes may endanger New York more than formerly believed August 22, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 20 vote(s)
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A study by a group of prominent seismologists suggests that a pattern of subtle but active faults makes the risk of earthquakes to the New York City area substantially greater than formerly believed. Among ... | |
 Satellite images show continued breakup of 2 of Greenland's largest glaciers August 21, 2008 | User rating: 3.2 / 5 after 20 vote(s)
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Researchers monitoring daily satellite images here of Greenland's glaciers have discovered break-ups at two of the largest glaciers in the last month. They expect that part of the Northern hemisphere's longest ... | |
New clues to air circulation in the atmosphere August 21, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 20 vote(s)
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Air circulates above the Earth in four distinct cells, with two either side of the equator, says new research. The new observational study describes how air rises and falls in the atmosphere above the Earth's surface, creating ... | |
 Hubble sees magnetic monster in erupting galaxy August 20, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 26 vote(s)
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NGC 1275 is one of the closest giant elliptical galaxies and lies at the centre of the Perseus Cluster of galaxies. It is an active galaxy, hosting a supermassive black hole at its core, which blows bubbles ... | |
 Bloomberg proposes windmills for New York City August 20, 2008 | User rating: 3.1 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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Mayor Michael Bloomberg has proposed a renewable energy program for New York city that would include placing windmills on city bridges, solar panels on skyscrapers, and the use of tidal, geothermal and nuclear ... | |
 New insights into centre of the Earth August 15, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 29 vote(s)
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A new observation of the very deepest part of the Earth, the solid inner core, has been reported this week in Nature. The team from the University of Bristol also observed intriguing evidence of a ‘texture’ ... | |
 Living with a Star August 20, 2008 | User rating: 3.6 / 5 after 24 vote(s)
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What if you woke up one morning and found your whole planet had been swallowed by the atmosphere of a star? | |
 DNA studies show 1 critically endangered grouper species is really 2 August 21, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Researchers from the University of Hawaii, the Wildlife Conservation Society, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, National Marine Fisheries Service and Projecto Meros do Brazil discovered a new species ... | |
 The M2-F1: 'Look Ma! No Wings!' August 19, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 35 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The planned retirement of the space shuttle fleet in 2010 will bring to a close an era that opened in the Antelope Valley nearly a half century ago. | |
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