Giant garbage patch floating in Pacific October 22, 2007 | User rating: 2.9 / 5 after 309 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. | |
 Greenhouse theory smashed by biggest stone March 14, 2006 | User rating: 2.7 / 5 after 1013 vote(s)
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A new theory to explain global warming was revealed at a meeting at the University of Leicester (UK) and is being considered for publication in the journal "Science First Hand". The controversial theory has ... | |
 Interstellar Spaceflight: Is It Possible? December 07, 2005 | User rating: 3.3 / 5 after 285 vote(s)
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With current space travel limited to just a few robotic probes visiting nearby planets, how realistic is it to think about reaching the nearest stars? For the short term, not very – especially when we speak ... | |
 A Giant Trilobite on the Sun September 19, 2007 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 83 vote(s)
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"We've never seen anything quite like it," says solar physicist Lika Guhathakurta from NASA headquarters. | |
 3-D model shows big body of water in Earth's mantle February 08, 2007 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 275 vote(s)
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A seismologist at Washington University in St. Louis has made the first 3-D model of seismic wave damping — diminishing — deep in the Earth's mantle and has revealed the existence of an underground water reservoir ... | |
 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, ... | |
 First Successful Demonstration of Carbon Dioxide Air Capture Technology Achieved April 25, 2007 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 272 vote(s)
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Global Research Technologies, LLC (GRT), a technology research and development company, and Klaus Lackner from Columbia University have achieved the successful demonstration of a bold new technology to capture ... | |
 Closest Look Ever at the Edge of a Black Hole September 03, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 117 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 ... | |
 Kasei Valles outflow channel system August 30, 2006 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 15 vote(s)
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These images, taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board ESA's Mars Express spacecraft, show the region of Kasei Valles, one of the biggest outflow channel systems on Mars. Kasei is the Japanese ... | |
 Chandra sees remarkable eclipse of black hole April 12, 2007 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 74 vote(s)
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A remarkable eclipse of a supermassive black hole and the hot gas disk around it has been observed with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. This eclipse has allowed two key predictions about the effects of supermassive ... | |
 New View of Doomed Star June 20, 2007 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 86 vote(s)
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Eta Carinae is a mysterious, extremely bright and unstable star located a mere stone's throw - astronomically speaking - from Earth at a distance of only about 7500 light years. The star is thought to be ... | |
 Breakup event in the main asteroid belt likely caused dinosaur extinction 65 million years ago September 05, 2007 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 150 vote(s)
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The impactor believed to have wiped out the dinosaurs and other life forms on Earth some 65 million years ago has been traced back to a breakup event in the main asteroid belt. | |
 Summer Moon Illusion June 28, 2007 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 60 vote(s)
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Sometimes you can't believe your eyes. This weekend is one of those times. | |
 Largest 3D Map of Galaxies October 03, 2006 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 106 vote(s)
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A team of American, Australian and British astronomers has released maps from the largest full-sky, three-dimensional survey of galaxies ever conducted. | |
 Another world first for Artemis: A laser link with an aircraft December 18, 2006 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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Artemis, the European Space Agency Advanced Relay and Technology Mission Satellite, successfully relayed optical laser links from an aircraft in early December. These airborne laser links, established over ... | |
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