'Naked Eye' Gamma Ray Burst Was Aimed Squarely At Earth
Sep 10, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The brightest explosion ever seen was observed in March this year. Now a team of astronomers from around the world, including the University of Leicester, the Mullard Space Science Laboratory ...
Magellanic clouds: Single measurement throws out everything we thought we knew
Sep 17, 2007 |
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The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) and Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) are two of the Milky Way's closest neighboring galaxies. A stunning sight in the southern hemisphere, they were named after Ferdinand Magellan, ...
Yellowstone rising: Volcano inflating with molten rock at record rate
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 08, 2007 |
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The Yellowstone “supervolcano” rose at a record rate since mid-2004, likely because a Los Angeles-sized, pancake-shaped blob of molten rock was injected 6 miles beneath the slumbering giant, University of ...
Voyage to the centre of the 'Plastic Vortex'
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 25, 2009 |
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A group of conservationists and scientists is due to set sail for an obscure corner of the Pacific Ocean in the coming months to explore a vast swirl of waste known as the "Plastic Vortex."
More Evidence Found for Water on Mars
Feb 15, 2007 |
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A spacecraft recently arrived at Mars has provided new evidence that fluids, likely including water, once flowed widely through underlying bedrock in a canyon that is part of the great Martian rift valley.
Greenland ice melting faster than thought
Feb 17, 2006 |
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Scientists believe Greenland's glaciers are sliding into the ocean much faster than earlier thought, a new report says.
Melting Greenland ice sheets may threaten Northeast United States, Canada
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 27, 2009 |
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Melting of the Greenland ice sheet this century may drive more water than previously thought toward the already threatened coastlines of New York, Boston, Halifax, and other cities in the northeastern United ...
Government accused of rewriting science
Mar 20, 2006 |
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A renown U.S. scientist says he is limited by the Bush administration as to who he can talk with and what he can say because of Bush's political strategies.
Astronomer detects atmosphere of extra-solar planet
Dec 07, 2007 |
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University of Texas at Austin astronomer and Hubble Fellow Seth Redfield has used the Hobby-Eberly Telescope (HET) at McDonald Observatory to make the first ground-based detection of the atmosphere of a planet ...
Scientists Nudge Closer to the Edge of a Black Hole
Oct 06, 2006 |
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NASA scientists and their international partners using the new Japanese Suzaku satellite have collected a startling new set of black hole observations, revealing details of twisted space and warped time never ...
New Evidence of Early Glacial Development, History of Antarctic Ice Sheet Revised
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 05, 2006 |
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Syracuse University Professors Linda C. Ivany and Scott D. Samson along with colleagues at the University of Leuven in Belgium and Hamilton College have found evidence that expands our understanding about how ...
Rocket launches may need regulation to prevent ozone depletion, says study
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 31, 2009 |
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The global market for rocket launches may require more stringent regulation in order to prevent significant damage to Earth's stratospheric ozone layer in the decades to come, according to a new study by researchers ...
Astronomers discover largest-ever dark matter structures spanning 270M light-years
Feb 21, 2008 |
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A University of British Columbia astronomer with an international team has discovered the largest structures of dark matter ever seen. Measuring 270 million light-years across, these dark matter structures criss-cross the ...
More Than a Meteor Likely Killed Dinosaurs 65 Million Years Ago
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 17, 2006 |
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Growing evidence shows that the dinosaurs and their contemporaries were not wiped out by the famed Chicxulub meteor impact alone, according to a paleontologist who says multiple meteor impacts, massive volcanism ...
Wind shifts may stir CO2 from Antarctic depths
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 12, 2009 |
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Natural releases of carbon dioxide from the Southern Ocean due to shifting wind patterns could have amplified global warming at the end of the last ice age--and could be repeated as manmade warming proceeds, ...
