 Scientists solve 30-year-old aurora borealis mystery 13 hours ago | User rating: 3.6 / 5 after 17 vote(s)
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UCLA space scientists and colleagues have identified the mechanism that triggers substorms in space; wreaks havoc on satellites, power grids and communications systems; and leads to the explosive release of ... | |
 NASA engineers work on alternative moon rocket July 14, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 56 vote(s)
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(AP) -- By day, the engineers work on NASA's new Ares moon rockets. By night, some go undercover to work on a competing design. These dissenting scientists and their backers insist they have created an alternative ... | |
 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 ... | |
 First images of solar system's invisible frontier July 02, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 34 vote(s)
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NASA's sun-focused STEREO spacecraft unexpectedly detected particles from the edge of the solar system last year, allowing University of California, Berkeley, scientists to map for the first time the energized ... | |
 100 years on, mystery shrouds massive 'cosmic impact' in Russia June 29, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 68 vote(s)
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A hundred years ago this week, a gigantic explosion ripped open the dawn sky above the swampy taiga forest of western Siberia, leaving a scientific riddle that endures to this day. | |
 Trench on Mars Ready for Next Sampling by NASA Lander 11 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has groomed the bottom of a shallow trench to prepare for collecting a sample to be analyzed from a hard subsurface layer where the soil may contain frozen water. ... | |
 Arctic 'holds 90bln barrels of oil, mostly offshore' 13 hours ago | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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Within the Arctic circle there are 90 billion barrels of oil and vast quantities of natural gas waiting to be tapped, most of it offshore, the government-run US Geological Survey said. | |
The Quiet Explosion: Object intermediate between normal supernovae and gamma-ray bursts found 13 hours ago | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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A European-led team of astronomers are providing hints that a recent supernova may not be as normal as initially thought. Instead, the star that exploded is now understood to have collapsed into a black hole, producing a ... | |
 Scientists break record by finding northernmost hydrothermal vent field 13 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
Well inside the Arctic Circle, scientists have found black smoker vents farther north than anyone has ever seen before. The cluster of five vents – one towering nearly four stories in height – are venting ... | |
 COROT's new find orbits Sun-like star 14 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
A team of European scientists working with COROT have discovered an exoplanet orbiting a star slightly more massive than the Sun. After just 555 days in orbit, the mission has now observed more than 50 000 ... | |
Watching a 'New Star' Make the Universe Dusty 14 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(PhysOrg.com) -- Using ESO's Very Large Telescope Interferometer, and its remarkable acuity, astronomers were able for the first time to witness the appearance of a shell of dusty gas around a star that had just erupted, ... | |
 Lenses galore -- Hubble finds large sample of very distant galaxies 15 hours ago | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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By using the gravitational magnification from six massive lensing galaxy clusters, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has provided scientists with the largest sample of very distant galaxies seen to date. ... | |
Study: Typhoons bury tons of carbon in the oceans 15 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | User comments: 3
A single typhoon in Taiwan buries as much carbon in the ocean -- in the form of sediment -- as all the other rains in that country all year long combined. That's the finding of an Ohio State University study published in ... | |
 N.M. cavers chart unique 'snowy' river of crystals 21 hours ago | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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(AP) -- Hundreds of feet beneath Earth's surface, a few seasoned cave explorers venture where no human has set foot. Their headlamps illuminate mud-covered walls, gypsum crystals and mineral deposits. The ... | |
Cow power could generate electricity for millions July 24, 2008 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 15 vote(s)
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Converting livestock manure into a domestic renewable fuel source could generate enough electricity to meet up to three per cent of North America's entire consumption needs and lead to a significant reduction in greenhouse ... | |
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