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Dec 06, 2009 | 5 / 5 (23) | 10

British billionaire Sir Richard Branson will unveil a craft on Monday that could soon carry tourists on an out-of-this-world trip into space -- for a mere 200,000 dollars. (Update: Virgin Galactic unveils commercial spaceship) ...

Study on Great Lakes erosion dredges up controversy

Dec 17, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

The Great Lakes aren't as great as they once were. A U.S.-Canadian study released Tuesday reveals that unexpected erosion in the St. Clair River following a 1962 dredging project has permanently lowered Lakes Michigan and ...

Laurence still causing warnings and watches in northern west Australia

Dec 17, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

Although the center of Tropical Cyclone Laurence has been over land for two days, it's still holding together and bringing heavy rains and gusty winds to the northern coastal areas of West Australia and will ...

Absence of evidence for a meteorite impact event 13,000 years ago

Dec 08, 2009 | 4.1 / 5 (17) | 13

An international team of scientists led by researchers at the University of Hawaii at Manoa have found no evidence supporting an extraterrestrial impact event at the onset of the Younger Dryas ~13000 years ...

NASA, Google offer more precise emissions tracking

Dec 17, 2009 | 1 / 5 (1) | 0

(AP) -- The question is a potential deal-killer: If nations ever agree to slash greenhouse gas emissions, how will the world know if they live up to their pledges?

Not easy being green

Dec 18, 2009 | 3.7 / 5 (3) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- It was a battle to save a cherished piece of nature from the forces of economic growth. Preservationists formed groups to present their case, and public figures across the country spoke up ...

Antarctic nations plan tough new shipping controls

Dec 12, 2009 | 4.9 / 5 (9) | 0

(AP) -- Countries that manage Antarctica plan tough new controls on ships visiting the southern oceans and the fuels they use to reduce the threat of human and environmental disasters as tourist numbers rise, ...

Virgin Galactic unveils commercial spaceship

Dec 07, 2009 | 4.6 / 5 (8) | 2

SpaceShipTwo (SS2) and its mothership, VMS Eve (WhiteKnightTwo) herald a new era in commercial space flight with daily space tourism flights set to commence from Spaceport America in New Mexico after test ...

New results from a terra-ific decade in orbit

Dec 15, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

December 18, 2009, marks the tenth year since the launch of Terra, one of NASA's "flagship" Earth observing satellites. But the decade is more than just a mechanical milestone. With each additional day and ...

Sandtrapped Rover Makes a Big Discovery

Dec 03, 2009 | 4.8 / 5 (56) | 11

Homer's Iliad tells the story of Troy, a city besieged by the Greeks in the Trojan War. Today, a lone robot sits besieged in the sands of Troy while engineers and scientists plot its escape.

Suzaku catches retreat of a black hole's disk

Space & Earth / Astronomy

Dec 10, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (16) | 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Studies of one of the galaxy's most active black-hole binaries reveal a dramatic change that will help scientists better understand how these systems expel fast-moving particle jets.

Tropical Cyclone Laurence menaces Northern Australia

Dec 16, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

Laurence is still a tropical cyclone even though the storm has made landfall in northern West Australia and is moving over land. The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite noticed some powerful ...

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Resumes Observations

Dec 16, 2009 | 4.6 / 5 (5) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers are receiving new science data from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter after the spacecraft's six science instruments resumed observations today.

Pioneering images of both martian moons (w/ Video)