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'Green' fireworks may brighten eco-friendly 4th of July displays in future
Jun 22, 2009 |
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With millions of people in the United States eagerly awaiting those July 4 fireworks displays — and our Canadian neighbors doing likewise for their July 1 Canada Day celebrations — here's a prospect for those ...
A healthier July Fourth: Eco-friendly fireworks and flares poised to light up the sky
Jun 30, 2008 |
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From the rockets' red glare to bombs bursting in air, researchers are developing more environmentally friendly fireworks and flares to light up the night sky while minimizing potential health risks, according ...
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Fireworks cause environmental pollution
May 29, 2007 |
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U.S. government scientists say Fourth of July fireworks displays often held over lakes and other bodies of water can pollute the water with perchlorate.
Damping the odds that fireworks will spark seizures
Jul 03, 2007 |
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Bright light that flickers frequently or rapidly, like a strobe light, can trigger seizures in some people – a phenomenon documented in nearly 700 children who were hospitalized in Japan 10 years ago after watching a Pokemon ...
Beyond the Fireworks: A Heavenly Sky Show on the 4th of July
Jun 29, 2006 |
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This drives astronomers crazy. Every summer, on the one night when millions of Americans are guaranteed to be outside at nightfall, necks craned upward watching the sky, almost no one pays attention to the ...
Planets Align for the 4th of July
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Jul 02, 2008 |
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News Flash: On 4th of July weekend, NASA forecasts lights in the sky. No, not those lights. Look beyond the fireworks. Almost halfway up the western sky, just above the twilight glow of sunset, a trio of worlds ...
Natural fireworks, courtesy of the Perseid meteor shower
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Aug 07, 2007 |
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As the Perseid meteor shower becomes visible in all its glory on 13 August, natural fireworks will fill the sky. Showers of meteors, or ‘shooting stars’, appear as bright streaks of light in the sky. The display ...
Scientists discovers 'firework' display in Helix Nebula
Jul 20, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A star does not die without getting noticed and may even leave the universe with "fireworks." At the end of its life cycle, a star begins to collapse in the middle and throws new material ...
Eco-Friendly Pyrotechnics
Mar 17, 2008 |
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You know it is chemistry when it stinks and goes boom—and entrances us. “No other application in the field of chemistry has such a positive association for the general population as fireworks,” says Thomas Klapötke (University ...
Swift, Fermi probe fireworks from a flaring gamma-ray star (Video)
Feb 10, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers using NASA's Swift satellite and Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope are seeing frequent blasts from a stellar remnant 30,000 light-years away. The high-energy fireworks arise from ...
Perseid Meteor Shower Peaks Tuesday, Aug. 12
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Aug 07, 2009 |
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(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 ...
Spitzer Picks Up Glow of Universe's First Objects
Dec 18, 2006 |
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New observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope strongly suggest that infrared light detected in a prior study originated from clumps of the very first objects of the universe. The recent data indicate ...
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