NASA instruments document contraction of the boundary between the Earth's ionosphere, space
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Dec 15, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Observations made by NASA instruments onboard an Air Force satellite have shown that the boundary between the Earth's upper atmosphere and space has moved to extraordinarily low altitudes. ...
Spinning 'Orbita' Mouse Available in January
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Dec 15, 2008 |
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It looks like a large shiny button, but the round object is actually the world's first wireless three-axis mouse, according to its designers, an Australian technology company called Cyber Sport. The company ...
Saturn's Dynamic Moon Enceladus Shows More Signs of Activity
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 15, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The closer scientists look at Saturn's small moon Enceladus, the more they find evidence of an active world. The most recent flybys of Enceladus made by NASA's Cassini spacecraft have provided ...
Phoenix Site on Mars May be in Dry Climate Cycle Phase
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 15, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The Martian arctic soil that NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander dug into this year is very cold and very dry. However, when long-term climate cycles make the site warmer, the soil may get moist enough ...
ALICE particle accelerator achieves energy recovery
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(PhysOrg.com) -- UK scientists have successfully demonstrated energy recovery on the ALICE advanced particle accelerator design, potentially paving the way for new accelerators using a fraction of the energy ...
Warming climate signals big changes for ski areas, says University of Colorado study
Dec 15, 2008 |
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Rocky Mountain ski areas face dramatic changes this century as the climate warms, including best-case scenarios of shortened ski seasons and higher snowlines and worst-case scenarios of bare base areas and ...
Reducing the damage of a heart attack: Mechanism behind cardiac scarring discovered
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In the aftermath of a heart attack, the body's own defenses may contribute to future heart failure. Authors of a new study believe they have identified a protein that plays an important role in a process that replaces dead ...
Breathing problems during sleep associated with calories burned at rest
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Individuals with sleep-related breathing disorders appear to burn more calories when resting as their conditions become more severe, according to a report in the December issue of Archives of Otolaryngology–Head & Neck Su ...
Study proposes explanation for migration of volcanic activity on Mars
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 15, 2008 |
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Picture a ball. It's an ordinary ball in every way except that it is roughly 4,300 miles in diameter and is moving through the cold of space some 35 million miles from Earth, and hurtling around the sun in ...
Tiny ecosystem may shed light on climate change
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(PhysOrg.com) -- MIT researchers have created a microbial ecosystem smaller than a stick of gum that sheds new light on the plankton-eat-plankton world at the bottom of the aquatic food chain.
New project to probe Milky Way history in Sloan Digital Sky Survey III
Dec 15, 2008 |
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A new project, the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment, or APOGEE, will survey more than 100,000 Milky Way red giant stars -- bright, bloated stars in a late stage of their evolution. APOGEE ...
UC San Diego Adds Power Storage to Fuel Cell Project, Part of 'Smart Energy Grid'
Dec 15, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The University of California, San Diego plans to store power produced at night from a planned 2.8 megawatt "green" fuel cell and use the energy during peak-demand hours the following day when ...
Breathing cycles in Earth's upper atmosphere tied to solar wind disturbances
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 15, 2008 |
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A new University of Colorado at Boulder study shows the periodic "breathing" of Earth's upper atmosphere that has long puzzled scientists is due in part to cyclic solar wind disturbances, a finding that should help engineers ...
Unmarried dads' involvement with child secured during pregnancy, study says
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The best chance of "reeling-in" an unmarried father and building the foundations for a stable family life are the critical months of pregnancy, says new research from the University of Maryland.
Nearly three-quarters of youths with diabetes insufficient in vitamin D
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Three-quarters of youths with type 1 diabetes were found to have insufficient levels of vitamin D, according to a study by researchers at the Joslin Diabetes Center – findings that suggest children with the disease may need ...
