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Climate models don't tell the full story

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 08, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (10) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Climate models that predict heavy rainfall don’t give the whole picture, according to the results of a study by NWO (Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research) scientist Martin Ziegler. He examined ...


Suzaku snaps first complete X-ray view of a galaxy cluster

Suzaku snaps first complete X-ray view of a galaxy cluster

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created May 28, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (8) | comments 3

The joint Japan-U.S. Suzaku mission is providing new insight into how assemblages of thousands of galaxies pull themselves together. For the first time, Suzaku has detected X-ray-emitting gas at a cluster's ...





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Studying a Star Before it is Born

Studying a Star Before it is Born

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created 14 hours ago | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | 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 ...


Fine-tuned

Fine-tuned: A wholly new approach to tuning a laser's frequency

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created 16 hours ago | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- For more than 30 years, scientists have been trying to harness the power of terahertz radiation. Tucked between microwaves and infrared rays on the electromagnetic spectrum, terahertz rays ...


New laser -- it's a gas, gas, gas... sensor

New laser -- it's a gas, gas, gas... sensor

Technology / Engineering

created 17 hours ago | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new generation of optical sensors is enabling the development of robust, long-lasting, lighting-fast trace gas detectors for use in a wide range of industrial, security and domestic applications.


NASA's WISE infrared satellite to reveal new galaxies, stars, asteroids

NASA's WISE infrared satellite to reveal new galaxies, stars, asteroids

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created 18 hours ago | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Data from the satellite, says principal investigator and UCLA professor Edward Wright, will help scientists answer fundamental questions about the history of our solar system, the Milky Way ...


Team using Subaru Telescope makes major discovery

Team using Subaru Telescope makes major discovery

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (21) | comments 2

An international team of scientists that includes an astronomer from Princeton University has made the first direct observation of a planet-like object orbiting a star similar to the sun.


Professor foresees rising Antarctic snowmelt

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The 30-year record low in Antarctic snowmelt that occurred during the 2008-09 austral summer was likely due to concurrent strong positive phases for two main climate drivers, ENSO (El Niño - Southern Oscillation) and SAM ...


CO2 levels rising in troposphere over rural areas

CO2 levels rising in troposphere over rural areas

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 2.7 / 5 (3) | comments 4

Spanish researchers have measured CO2 levels for the past three years in the troposphere (lower atmosphere) over a sparsely inhabited rural area near Valladolid. The results, which are the first of their kind ...


Turbulence around heat transport

Turbulence around heat transport

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- Heat transport in the earth's mantle and in the atmosphere is probably not as effective as previously thought.


Newly discovered star one of hottest in Galaxy

Newly discovered star one of hottest in Galaxy (w/ Video)

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (21) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers at The University of Manchester's Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics have discovered one of the hottest stars in the Galaxy with a surface temperature of around 200,000 degrees ...


First comprehensive review of the state of Antarctica's climate

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created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (11) | comments 3

The first comprehensive review of the state of Antarctica's climate and its relationship to the global climate system is published this week by the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). The review - Antarctic ...



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