 Strange star stumps astronomers May 16, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 34 vote(s)
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An obese oddball of a star has left astronomers wondering how it could have formed. Dr David Champion and his colleagues at CSIRO’s Australia Telescope National Facility publish their findings about the star ... | |
 Key molecule discovered in Venus's atmosphere May 15, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 25 vote(s)
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Venus Express has detected the molecule hydroxyl on another planet for the first time. This detection gives scientists an important new tool to unlock the workings of Venus’s dense atmosphere. | |
 Russian cargo ship docks with the ISS 17 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
A Russian Progress M-64 cargo ship docked Saturday with the International Space Station, the Interfax news agency reported. | |
 Wildlife numbers plummet globally: WWF 21 hours ago | User rating: 4 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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The world's wildlife populations have reduced by around a quarter since the 1970s, according to a major report published Friday by the WWF conservation organization. | |
Scientists identified earthquake faults in Sichuan, China 22 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Only last summer research published by earth scientists in the international journal Tectonics concluded that geological faults in the Sichuan Basin, China "are sufficiently long to sustain a strong ground-shaking ... | |
Huge project to restore Everglades to be suspended May 16, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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(AP) -- Construction on a huge reservoir meant to help restore the Everglades will be put on hold over a lawsuit brought by a group that fears the water could be diverted for other purposes. | |
 NASA Satellite Finds Interior of Mars Is Colder May 15, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 16 vote(s)
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New observations from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter indicate that the crust and upper mantle of Mars are stiffer and colder than previously thought. | |
 Eccentric pulsar system challenges theories of binary formation May 15, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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An ongoing sky survey using the Cornell-managed Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico has turned up a massive, fast-spinning binary pulsar with a mysterious elongated orbit, researchers say. The pulsar and ... | |
 Astronomers use new model of dust in galaxies to remeasure the total energy output of stars in the universe May 15, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 16 vote(s)
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Anyone gazing up on a dark clear night is greeted by the spectacle of thousands of powerful fusion reactors - the stars. These balls of extremely hot gas are generating unimaginably large quantities of energy. ... | |
Addressing the 'nitrogen cascade' May 15, 2008 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 22 vote(s)
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While human-caused global climate change has long been a concern for environmental scientists and is a well-known public policy issue, the problem of excessive reactive nitrogen in the environment is little-known beyond a ... | |
 Russian scientists announce 'spaceroach' grandchildren: report May 15, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Russian space scientists announced on Thursday a new breakthrough in a long pedigree of firsts: the birth of 30 grandchildren of a "space cockroach" who spent 12 days in orbit. | |
 Earthquake in China struck in 2 stages May 15, 2008 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 16 vote(s)
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(AP) -- The fault line that caused this week's devastating earthquake in China probably buckled in two stages, and the hardness of the terrain contributed to the wide reach of the damage, Japanese scientists ... | |
NASA study links Earth impacts to human-caused climate change May 14, 2008 | User rating: 3.3 / 5 after 23 vote(s)
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A new NASA-led study shows human-caused climate change has made an impact on a wide range of Earth's natural systems, including permafrost thawing, plants blooming earlier across Europe, and lakes declining in productivity ... | |
 Studies confirm greenhouse mechanisms even further into past May 14, 2008 | User rating: 3.5 / 5 after 25 vote(s)
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The newest analysis of trace gases trapped in Antarctic ice cores now provide a reasonable view of greenhouse gas concentrations as much as 800,000 years into the past, and are further confirming the link ... | |
 Wandering poles left scars on Europa May 14, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 16 vote(s)
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Curved features on Jupiter’s moon Europa may indicate that its poles have wandered by almost 90°, report scientists from the Carnegie Institution, Lunar and Planetary Institute, and University of California, ... | |
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