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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.


Eutrophication affects diversity of algae

Eutrophication affects diversity of algae

Biology / Ecology

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Eutrophication of the seas may have an impact on genetic variation in algae, research at the University of Gothenburg shows.


Princeton paleomagnetists put controversy to rest

Paleomagnetists put controversy to rest

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 02, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (10) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Princeton University scientists have shown that, in ancient times, the Earth's magnetic field was structured like the two-pole model of today, suggesting that the methods geoscientists use ...


Global warming may dent El Nino's protective shield from Atlantic hurricanes, increase droughts

Global warming may dent El Nino's protective shield from Atlantic hurricanes, increase droughts

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 23, 2009 | popularity 3.1 / 5 (12) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- El Niño, the periodic eastern Pacific phenomenon credited with shielding the United States and Caribbean from severe hurricane seasons, may be overshadowed by its brother in the central Pacific ...


First IR Image from Newest Weather Satellite Captures Hurricane Bill

First IR Image from Newest Weather Satellite Captures Hurricane Bill

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Aug 21, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Remote-sensing scientists call a satellite image that captures an entire hemisphere of the Earth in one view a "full-disk" image. The delivery of the first full-disk image from a newly launched ...


Caltech researchers link tiny sea creatures to large-scale ocean mixing

150 years later, Darwin vindicated... by jellyfish: Researchers link tiny sea creatures to large-scale ocean mixing

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jul 29, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (21) | comments 10

(PhysOrg.com) -- Creatures large and small may play an important role in the stirring of ocean waters, according to a study released Wednesday that confirms a theory advanced by Charles Darwin.


Earth's most prominent rainfall feature creeping northward

Earth's most prominent rainfall feature creeping northward

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jul 01, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (12) | comments 3

The rain band near the equator that determines the supply of freshwater to nearly a billion people throughout the tropics and subtropics has been creeping north for more than 300 years, probably because of ...


Equatorial region known for massive storms

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jun 03, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(AP) -- It's the birthplace of some of the world's strongest storms, a nearly continuous band of colliding weather systems near the equator where the Air France jet vanished in the night.


Mars Express zeroes in on erosion features

Mars Express zeroes in on erosion features

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Mars Express has uncovered geological evidence suggesting that some depositional process, revealed by erosion, has been at work on large scales in the equatorial regions of the planet. If ...


'Chemical equator' discovery will aid pollution mapping

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 23, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (26) | comments 0

Scientists at the University of York have discovered a 'Chemical Equator' that divides the polluted air of the Northern Hemisphere from the largely uncontaminated atmosphere of the Southern Hemisphere.