MIT Researchers Take Space Suit to Next Level
Feb 08, 2006 |
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Researchers in the Man Vehicle Laboratory (MVL) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have begun this month to push a revolutionary new space suit design from investigation to initial development, aiming ...
Probing Question: What heats the earth's core?
Mar 30, 2006 |
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Although we crust-dwellers walk on nice cool ground, underneath our feet the Earth is a pretty hot place. Enough heat emanates from the planet's interior to make 200 cups of piping hot coffee per hour for each ...
Largest 3D Map of Galaxies
Oct 03, 2006 |
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A team of American, Australian and British astronomers has released maps from the largest full-sky, three-dimensional survey of galaxies ever conducted.
Astronomers discover strange new planet
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 14, 2006 |
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U.S. astronomers have discovered a planet unlike any other known in the universe. Smithsonian scientists say the new planet was discovered using a network of small automated telescopes known as HATl. The planet ...
Jupiter's Moon Europa Has Enough Oxygen For Life
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 16, 2009 |
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New research suggests that there is plenty of oxygen available in the subsurface ocean of Europa to support oxygen-based metabolic processes for life similar to that on Earth. In fact, there may be enough ...
White roofs, streets could curb global warming
Sep 17, 2008 |
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The idea of painting our roofs and roads white to offset global warming is not new, but a recent study has calculated just how significantly white surfaces could impact greenhouse gas emissions. Last week, researchers at ...
Surprises from the Edge of the Solar System
Sep 22, 2006 |
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Almost every day, the great antennas of NASA's Deep Space Network turn to a blank patch of sky in the constellation Ophiuchus. Pointing at nothing, or so it seems, they invariably pick up a signal, faint but ...
Obama looking at cooling air to fight warming
Apr 08, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Tinkering with Earth's climate to chill runaway global warming - a radical idea once dismissed out of hand - is being discussed by the White House as a potential emergency option, the president's ...
North Pole's ancient past holds clues about future global warming
May 31, 2006 |
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A treasure trove of scientific data is revealing detailed information about conditions of subtropical warmth at the North Pole about 55 million years ago while also providing a window into the future, when ...
Cuneiform clay tablet translated for the first time
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 31, 2008 |
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A cuneiform clay tablet that has puzzled scholars for over 150 years has been translated for the first time. The tablet is now known to be a contemporary Sumerian observation of an asteroid impact at Köfels, ...
Scientists confirm that parts of earliest genetic material may have come from the stars
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 13, 2008 |
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Scientists have confirmed for the first time that an important component of early genetic material which has been found in meteorite fragments is extraterrestrial in origin, in a paper published on 15 June ...
Phoenix Mars Lander Confirms Martian Water
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 31, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Laboratory tests aboard NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander have identified water in a soil sample. The lander's robotic arm delivered the sample Wednesday to an instrument that identifies vapors produced ...
Climate pledges bound to breach key warming target: scientists
Jun 11, 2009 |
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Pledges currently on the table at the UN climate talks will doom Earth to a warming of more than two degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit), a figure that has been widely endorsed as a safe limit, scientists ...
Statistics experts reject global cooling claims
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 26, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Have you heard that the world is now cooling instead of warming? You may have seen some news reports on the Internet or heard about it from a provocative new book.
Space Shuttle Replacement
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 28, 2006 |
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It’s no secret that NASA needs a replacement for the aging STS – Space Transport System – or more commonly, the Space Shuttle. In fact, many scientists – including some of the most prestigious organizations ...
