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Researchers discover mechanism that helps humans see in bright and low light

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 0

Ever wonder how your eyes adjust during a blackout? When we go from light to near total darkness, cells in the retina must quickly adjust. Vision scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. ...


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STAR TRAK for November

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 03, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (10) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Venus and Jupiter, the brightest planets in the sky, will steadily approach each other during November as if drawn by their mutual brillliance. Finally they will have a spectacular encounter ...





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Expanding Spot on Venus Puzzles Astronomers

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Aug 04, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (30) | comments 7

(PhysOrg.com) -- The expanding spot discovered on Venus last month may not have garnered as much attention as the meteor impact with Jupiter, but its cause is certainly more puzzling. ...


LRO Sees Apollo 14's Rocket Booster Impact Site

LRO Sees Apollo 14's Rocket Booster Impact Site

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 08, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- A distinctive crater about 35 meters (115 feet) in diameter was formed when the Apollo 14 Saturn IVB (upper stage) was intentionally impacted into the moon. The energy of the impact created ...


Oblique View of Victoria Crater

Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Gets New View of Victoria Crater

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Aug 12, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- This image of Victoria Crater in the Meridiani Planum region of Mars was taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter at more ...


Perseid Meteor Shower Peaks Tuesday, Aug. 12

Perseid Meteor Shower Peaks Tuesday, Aug. 12

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Aug 07, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- It's time once again for nature to put on its late-summer fireworks show: the Perseid meteor shower. This year's best viewing will be before dawn on Aug. 12, with a second chance after sunset ...


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STAR TRAK for November: Mars is prominent again

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Pumpkin-colored Mars will return to prominence during November, rising shortly before midnight at the beginning of the month and more than two hours earlier by month's end. The orange planet ...


Ghostly 'Spokes' Puff Out From Saturn's Ring's

Ghostly 'Spokes' Puff Out From Saturn's Ring's (w/ Video)

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Massive, bright clouds of tiny ice particles hover above the darkened rings of Saturn in an image captured by the Cassini spacecraft on Sept. 22, 2009, around the time of Saturn's equinox. ...


The Perseids are Coming

The Perseids are Coming

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jul 31, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (12) | comments 2

Earth is entering a stream of dusty debris from Comet Swift-Tuttle, the source of the annual Perseid meteor shower. Although the shower won't peak until August 11th and 12th, the show is already getting underway. ...


XMM-Newton uncovers a celestial Rosetta stone

XMM-Newton uncovers a celestial Rosetta stone

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Sep 03, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (16) | comments 7

(PhysOrg.com) -- ESA's XMM-Newton orbiting X-ray telescope has uncovered a celestial Rosetta stone: the first close-up of a white dwarf star, circling a companion star, that could explode into a particular ...


Samsung Offers New Addition To Home Theater Projector Lineup

Samsung Intros New Home Theater Full HD Projector

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Sep 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

Samsung Electronics today announced the release of the A600, the latest A Series (A/V) Home Theater Projector with Full High Definition (HD) 1080p performance. The A600 builds on Samsung’s engineering depth ...


New type of supernova explosion reported; predicted by theoretical physicists at UCSB

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0

A new class of supernova was discovered by scientists at Berkeley and may be the first example of a new type of exploding star. A team of astrophysicists at UC Santa Barbara had predicted this kind of explosion in their t ...



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