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NASA Satellite Data Show Progress of 2009 Antarctic Ozone Hole

NASA Satellite Data Show Progress of 2009 Antarctic Ozone Hole (w/ Video)

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The annual ozone hole has started developing over the South Pole, and it appears that it will be comparable to ozone depletions over the past decade. This composite image from September 10 ...


This year the hole began forming "earlier than before" said WMO's expert on the ozone Geir Braathen

Ozone hole smaller in 2009 than 2008: WMO

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The World Meteorological Organisation said Wednesday that the ozone hole is expected to be smaller in 2009 than a year ago.


Sophisticated telescope camera debuts with peek at nest of black holes

Sophisticated telescope camera debuts with peek at nest of black holes

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Sep 15, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (13) | comments 0

Less than two months after they inaugurated the world's largest telescope, University of Florida astronomers have used one of the world's most advanced telescopic instruments to gather images of the heavens.


Mass. center to build ocean monitoring stations

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 07, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(AP) -- A Massachusetts ocean studies institute is building underwater data collection stations to help researchers understand the ocean's role in climate change.


Belgium's Princess Elisabeth base in Antartica

Ozone: Climate change boosts ultraviolet risk for high latitudes

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 06, 2009 | popularity 2.2 / 5 (13) | comments 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists at the University of Toronto have discovered that changes in the Earth's ozone layer due to climate change will reduce the amount of ultraviolet (UV) radiation in northern high ...


What's Holding Antarctic Sea Ice Back From Melting?

What's Holding Antarctic Sea Ice Back From Melting?

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 02, 2009 | popularity 3.1 / 5 (9) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Global temperatures are increasing. Sea levels are rising. Ice sheets in many areas of the world are retreating. Yet there’s something peculiar going on in the oceans around Antarctica: even ...


NGC 4945: The Milky Way's not-so-distant Cousin

NGC 4945: The Milky Way's not-so-distant Cousin

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Sep 02, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- ESO has released a striking new image of a nearby galaxy that many astronomers think closely resembles our own Milky Way. Though the galaxy is seen edge-on, observations of NGC 4945 suggest ...


Giant Galaxy Hosts the Most Distant Supermassive Black Hole

Giant Galaxy Hosts the Most Distant Supermassive Black Hole

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Sep 02, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (15) | comments 26

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Hawaii (UH) astronomer Dr. Tomotsugu Goto and colleagues have discovered a giant galaxy surrounding the most distant supermassive black hole ever found. The galaxy, so distant ...


Open source DNA

Open source DNA

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Aug 31, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1

A new mathematical tool from Dr. Eran Halperin of TAU's Blavatnik School of Computer Science aims to protect genetic privacy while giving genomic data to researchers.


Indictment of card hacker unlikely to end thefts

Technology / Internet

created Aug 18, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- This week's indictment of a hacker believed responsible for the biggest retail-store data breaches in U.S. history doesn't necessarily make shoppers safer from having their credit card numbers plundered.


Aura Marks Five Years of Sky-High Atmosphere Research

Aura Marks Five Years of Sky-High Atmosphere Research

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Aug 05, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Imagine Earth without an atmosphere - without clouds, wind or air. Earth's atmosphere protects, transports, and reacts to life on Earth.


Exploring the Moon, Discovering Earth

Exploring the Moon, Discovering Earth

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jul 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Forty years ago, Apollo astronauts set out on a daring adventure to explore the Moon. They ended up discovering their own planet.


IMEC shows optimizations for next-generation transistors

IMEC shows optimizations for next-generation transistors

Technology / Semiconductors

created Jul 14, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

IMEC has achieved promising results in the race to scale CMOS to 22nm and below. The breakthroughs from its transistor scaling programs include a successful integration of the laser-anneal technique in a high-K/metal-gate ...


Living fossils hold record of 'supermassive' kick

Living fossils hold record of 'supermassive' kick

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jul 09, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (15) | comments 9

The tight cluster of stars surrounding a supermassive black hole after it has been violently kicked out of a galaxy represents a new kind of astronomical object and a fossil record of the kick.


VLBA locates superenergetic bursts near giant black hole

VLBA locates superenergetic bursts near giant black hole

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jul 02, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Using a worldwide combination of diverse telescopes, astronomers have discovered that a giant galaxy's bursts of very high energy gamma rays are coming from a region very close to the supermassive ...