 XMM-Newton discovers part of missing matter in the universe May 06, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 64 vote(s)
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ESA’s orbiting X-ray observatory XMM-Newton has been used by a team of international astronomers to uncover part of the missing matter in the universe. | |
 65-million-year-old asteroid impact triggered a global hail of carbon beads May 05, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 38 vote(s)
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The asteroid presumed to have wiped out the dinosaurs struck the Earth with such force that carbon deep in the Earth's crust liquefied, rocketed skyward, and formed tiny airborne beads that blanketed the planet, ... | |
 Chilean volcano town nearly deserted May 03, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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(AP) -- The Chaiten volcano spewed light ash on a nearly deserted village Saturday, two days after its first eruption in thousands of years. | |
 Innovative technology provides insight into what’s below the Earth’s surface May 05, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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From oil fields and meteorite impact craters, to potential tsunami triggering submarine landslides, innovative new technology which provides images from below the Earth’s surface has been unveiled. | |
 Chile's Chaiten volcano one of scores of active volcanoes in region May 07, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 16 vote(s)
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The Chaiten volcano now erupting in southern Chile is one of 200 to 300 volcanoes in the "Andean Arc" region of Chile, Peru, Ecuador and Columbia considered active by volcanologists, some of which lie in much ... | |
 Huge Texas sinkhole's appetite decreasing, officials say 10 hours ago | User rating: 3.7 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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(AP) -- Geologists said a 260-foot-deep sinkhole that grew to the length of three football fields over just two days seemed to be slowing down Thursday, but that it could take months before it's clear whether ... | |
Global climate models both agree and disagree with actual Antarctic data May 07, 2008 | User rating: 2.7 / 5 after 14 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. | |
 Vog - volcanic smog - kills plants, casts a haze over Hawaii May 05, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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(AP) -- For eight years, Tony and Sam Bayaoa have grown thousands of bright red, yellow and pink protea flowers on their farm. Then last month, Kilauea volcano opened a new vent and began spewing double the ... | |
 Amazon under threat from cleaner air May 07, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 15 vote(s)
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The Amazon rainforest, so crucial to the Earth’s climate system, is coming under threat from cleaner air say prominent UK and Brazilian climate scientists in the leading scientific journal Nature. | |
 Reservoir larger than Manhattan planned to help Everglades May 06, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 19 vote(s)
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(AP) -- Around South Florida's vast sugar cane fields, where turtles grow to the size of basketballs and alligators own the marsh, the silence of the swamp is broken by the sound of rumbling trucks and explosions. | |
 Chilean volcano captured blasting ash May 08, 2008 | User rating: 3.7 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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Chile’s Chaiten Volcano is shown spewing ash and smoke (centre left of image) into the air for hundreds of km over Argentina’s Patagonia Plateau in this Envisat image acquired on 5 May 2008. | |
 Baltic sea ice cover hits an all-time low: meteorologists May 03, 2008 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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The extent of ice covering the Baltic sea this winter reached an all-time low, since measurements began more than a century ago, Swedish meteorologists said. | |
 IT gurus launch software cleanup of Estonia May 04, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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Skype guru Ahti Heinla and Microlink and Delfi founder Rainer Nolvak put cutting-edge IT technology and 40,000 volunteers to work Saturday to clean-up the tiny Baltic Sea state of Estonia. | |
 Saturn Does the Wave in Its Atmosphere May 07, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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Two decades of scrutinizing Saturn are finally paying off, as scientists have discovered a wave pattern, or oscillation, in Saturn's atmosphere only visible from Earth every 15 years. | |
 GIOVE-B transmitting its first signals May 07, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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Following a successful launch on 27 April, GIOVE-B began transmitting navigation signals today. This is a truly historic step for satellite navigation since GIOVE-B is now, for the first time, transmitting ... | |
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