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Cassini finishes sleigh ride by icy moons

On the heels of a successful close flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus, NASA's Cassini spacecraft is returning images of Enceladus and the nearby moon Dione.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 22, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Polar Crown Prominences

Warning: Material contained in this story may make you wish to become a solar physicist. Japan's Hinode spacecraft, launched in 2006 on a mission to study the sun, is beaming back movies that astonish even ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Sep 18, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (17) | comments 2

Scientific Balloons Achieve Antarctic Flight Record

The National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have jointly achieved a new milestone in the almost 20-year history of scientific ballooning in Antarctica, ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Jan 04, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (13) | comments 0

From beneath Antarctica's Ross Sea, scientists retrieve pristine record of the continent's climate cycles

Frequent climate fluctuations on the world’s southernmost continent have been so extreme over the past 5 million years that Antarctica’s Ross Ice Shelf, a floating slab of ice the size of France, oscillated in size dramatically, ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 16, 2007 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (57) | comments 0

True Fakes: Scientists make simulated lunar soil

Life is tough for a humble grain of dirt on the surface of the Moon. It's peppered with cosmic rays, exposed to solar flares, and battered by micrometeorites--shattered, vaporized and re-condensed countless ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 03, 2007 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Pamela Goes to Space to Explore Dark Matter and Antimatter

Searching for antimatter and dark matter in Space: this is Pamela’s mission. Pamela will be launched into orbit on June 15th from the cosmodrome of Baikonur, in Kazakhstan. The launch will take place at 11.00 am local time.

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 13, 2006 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (16) | comments 0

Giant ape co-existed alongside humans 100,000 years ago, researcher finds

A gigantic ape, measuring about 10 feet tall and weighing up to 1,200 pounds, co-existed alongside humans, a geochronologist at McMaster University has discovered.

Other Sciences /

created Nov 07, 2005 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (18) | comments 0

A new face for physics

Graduate student helps to shed stereotype Physicists have a problem. They are stuck with a stereotype. In this, the World Year of Physics 2005, which celebrates the 100th anniversary of the creation of three seminal pape ...

Physics /

created Sep 21, 2005 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0


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