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CT Scan To Help Scientists Diagnose Role of Clouds in Climate

CT Scan To Help Scientists Diagnose Role of Clouds in Climate

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 21, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- During May and June 2009, scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory, Argonne National Laboratory, and the University of Colorado at Boulder will use high-tech ...





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Microsoft is raising cloud computing concerns

Microsoft raises cloud computing concerns

Technology / Software

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 1.4 / 5 (9) | comments 0

Packaged software powerhouse Microsoft on Thursday released a paper outlining privacy concerns businesses should consider prior to leaping into the computing "cloud."


Digital cloud may rise over London

Digital cloud may rise over London (w/ Video)

Technology / Hi Tech

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (10) | comments 3 weblog

(PhysOrg.com) -- An international group of artists, engineers and architects have proposed an enormous "digital cloud" to turn London's skyline into an overhead display of data and images.


New details on venusian clouds revealed

New details on venusian clouds revealed

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 30, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (12) | comments 0

As ESA's Venus Express orbits our sister planet, new images of the cloud structure of one of the most enigmatic atmospheres of the Solar System reveal brand-new details.


Venus comes to life at wavelengths invisible to human eyes

Venus comes to life at wavelengths invisible to human eyes

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 03, 2008 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (22) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A pale yellow-green dot to the human eye, Earth's twin planet comes to life in the ultraviolet and the infrared. New images taken by instruments on board ESA's Venus Express provide insight ...


Cloud radar -- predicting the weather more accurately

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 24, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

The weather. It's the one topic of conversation that unites Britain – umbrella or sun cream? Now scientists at the Science and Technology Facilities Council have developed a system that measures the individual layers of ...


Structure of enzyme against chemical warfare agents determined

Chemistry /

created Jan 28, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The enzyme DFPase from the squid Loligo vulgaris, is able to rapidly and efficiently detoxify chemical warfare agents such as Sarin, which was used in the Tokyo subway attacks in 1995.


Cassini images mammoth cloud engulfing Titan’s North Pole

Cassini images mammoth cloud engulfing Titan’s North Pole

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Feb 01, 2007 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (18) | comments 0

A giant cloud half the size of the United States has been imaged on Saturn’s moon Titan by the Cassini spacecraft. The cloud may be responsible for the material that fills the lakes discovered last year by ...


Studying a Star Before it is Born

Studying a Star Before it is Born

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- The first phase of a star's formation are thought to begin deep inside a natal cloud of gas and dust. In the earliest stages, material coalesces under the influence of gravity into so-called ...


Study Improves Ability to Predict Aerosols' Effect on Cloud Cover

Study Improves Ability to Predict Aerosols' Effect on Cloud Cover

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Aug 14, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Using a novel theoretical approach, researchers from NASA and other institutions have identified the common thread that determines how aerosols from human activity, like the particles from ...


Scientists Discover Pentagonal Ice

Scientists Discover Pentagonal Ice

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Apr 07, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (15) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the University of Liverpool have discovered a five-sided ice chain structure that could be used to modify future weather patterns.



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