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Monster Waves on the Sun are Real

Monster Waves on the Sun are Real (w/ Video)

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (20) | comments 2

Sometimes you really can believe your eyes. That's what NASA's STEREO (Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory) spacecraft are telling researchers about a controversial phenomenon on the sun known as the "solar ...


New computer cluster gets its grunt from games

New computer cluster gets its grunt from games

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Technology designed to blast aliens in computer games is part of a new GPU (Graphics Processing Units) computer cluster that will process CSIRO research data thousands of times faster and more efficiently ...


Nuclear weapons: Predicting the unthinkable

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 22, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (7) | comments 5

If a nuclear weapon were detonated in a metropolitan area, how large would the affected area be? Where should first responders first go? According to physicist Fernando Grinstein, we have some initial understanding to address ...


Ultra-Powerful Laser Reproduces How Star's Jets Travel through Interstellar Space

Ultra-Powerful Laser Reproduces How Star's Jets Travel through Interstellar Space

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (9) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A multi-trillion-watt laser at the University of Rochester has simulated a stellar jet -- an outpouring of matter from a fledgling star -- with unprecedented realism.


Mystery of the Solar Tsunami -- Solved

Mystery of the Solar Tsunami -- Solved (w/ Video)

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (27) | comments 9

(PhysOrg.com) -- Sometimes you really can believe your eyes. That's what NASA's Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) is telling researchers about a controversial phenomenon on the sun known as ...


NASA fuels space shuttle Atlantis for liftoff (AP)

NASA fuels space shuttle Atlantis for liftoff

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- NASA is fueling space shuttle Atlantis for its afternoon liftoff.


Nanotech in Space: Rensselaer Experiment To Weather the Trials of Orbit

Nanotech in Space: Rensselaer Experiment To Weather the Trials of Orbit

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Novel nanomaterials developed at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute are scheduled to blast off into orbit on November 16 aboard Space Shuttle Atlantis.


WISE Is Chilling Out

WISE Is Chilling Out

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineers are busy cooling the science instrument on NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE. The spacecraft is scheduled to blast into space from Vandenberg Air Force Base in ...


Researchers using excimer laser angioplasty to blast arterial blockages in heart and kidneys

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Using an excimer laser to widen narrowed or obstructed blood vessels in hard-to-reach areas of heart and kidney arteries may be feasible and safe, according to a study by a team of researchers from the Virginia ...


Russian rocket to launch from French Guiana in 2010

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 07, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 4

A Russian rocket will next year for the first time blast off from a European launch pad in South America, officials said Saturday, as the first rockets headed for the site on board a ship.



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