Ponds found to take up carbon like world's oceans May 06, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 16 vote(s)
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Research led by Iowa State University limnologist, or lake scientist, John Downing finds that ponds around the globe could absorb as much carbon as the world's oceans. | |
 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. | |
 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. | |
 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. | |
 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 ... | |
Ecological Impact of Bridge Design Is Not Trivial, UB Professors Say May 05, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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The latest delay in the construction of a new Peace Bridge between Buffalo and Ft. Erie, Ontario, may be trying the patience of Western New Yorkers, but the region has more to lose than time if it erects a bridge that destroys ... | |
 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, ... | |
 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 ... | |
 Planets by the Dozen 8 hours ago | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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You know the planets of our solar system, each a unique world with its own distinctive appearance, size, and chemistry. Mars, with its bitter-cold, rusty red sands; Venus, a fiery world shrouded in thick clouds ... | |
 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. | |
 A Super Solar Flare May 07, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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At 11:18 AM on the cloudless morning of Thursday, September 1, 1859, 33-year-old Richard Carrington—widely acknowledged to be one of England's foremost solar astronomers—was in his well-appointed private observatory. ... | |
 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 ... | |
 The Antennae Galaxies move closer 9 hours ago | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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The Antennae Galaxies are among the closest known merging galaxies. The two galaxies, also known as NGC 4038 and NGC 4039, began interacting a few hundred million years ago, creating one of the most impressive ... | |
 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. | |
 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. | |
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