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Biggest Full Moon of the Year: Take 2

Biggest Full Moon of the Year: Take 2

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

When last month's full Moon rose over Florida, onlooker Raquel Stanton of Cocoa Beach realized that something was up.





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Modern human brain

Discoveries shed new light on how the brain processes what the eye sees

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

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

Researchers at the Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience (CMBN) at Rutgers University in Newark have identified the need to develop a new framework for understanding "perceptual stability" and how ...


A New Paradigm for Lunar Orbits

A New Paradigm for Lunar Orbits

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 01, 2006 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 0

It's 2015. You're NASA's chief engineer designing a moonbase for Shackleton Crater at the Moon's south pole. You're also designing a com-system that will allow astronauts constant radio contact with Earth.


Earth's orbit creates more than a leap year

Earth's orbit creates more than a leap year

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Feb 08, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (35) | comments 3

The Earth's orbital behaviors are responsible for more than just presenting us with a leap year every four years. According to Michael E. Wysession, Ph.D., associate professor of earth and planetary sciences ...


Phoenix Mars Lander

Phoenix Mars Lander Fine Tunes Course for May Landing

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 11, 2008 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (14) | comments 3

NASA engineers have adjusted the flight path of the Phoenix Mars Lander, setting the spacecraft on course for its May 25 landing on the Red Planet.


An Oxygen Factory in a Nearby Galaxy

An Oxygen Factory in a Nearby Galaxy

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Mar 17, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (11) | comments 0

This Chandra X-ray Observatory image shows the debris of a massive star explosion in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small galaxy about 160,000 light years from Earth.


Where is Beagle 2? The search continues

Where is Beagle 2? The search continues

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 16, 2007 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (15) | comments 0

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) spacecraft has used its onboard High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera (HiRISE) to take a colour image of a region of Mars in the vicinity of the intended ...


Venus Express

Venus Express has reached final orbit

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created May 09, 2006 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Less than one month after insertion into orbit, and after sixteen loops around the planet Venus, ESA's Venus Express spacecraft has reached its final operational orbit on 7 May 2006.


Study of 'Solitons' Adds Insight into Nanomagnet Behavior

Study of 'Solitons' Adds Insight into Nanomagnet Behavior

Nanotechnology /

created Feb 02, 2006 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (203) | comments 0

Scientists are a long way off from a complete understanding of the interactions and behaviors that govern nanomagnets — magnets on the scale of a billionth of a meter. However, a groundbreaking new study helps ...


Rotating Space Elevator Propels its Own Load

Rotating Space Elevator Propels its Own Load

Physics / General Physics

created May 21, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (46) | comments 33

(PhysOrg.com) -- The idea of the space elevator just got a little crazier. While the “traditional” concept involved using rocket propulsion or laser light pressure to propel loads up a cable anchored to Earth, ...


Astronomers detect echoes from ancient supernovae

Astronomers detect echoes from ancient supernovae

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created Dec 21, 2005 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0

A team of astronomers has found faint visible “echoes” of three ancient supernovae by detecting centuries-old light reflected by interstellar gas clouds hundreds of light-years removed from the original explosions.



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