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Solar Shield Experiment Aims to Keep the Power On

Solar Shield Experiment Aims to Keep the Power On

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jul 01, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (16) | comments 1

When you flip a light switch to illuminate the pages of your favorite book or reach into your refrigerator for that last piece of key lime pie, you expect the electric current coursing through the outlets ...





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House and Senate look to final health care talks

Medicine & Health / Health

created 17 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- How many Americans will get subsidized medical coverage - plus who will pay for it - will be front-burner issues when Congress returns next month to complete President Barack Obama's health care remake.


Voyager makes an interstellar discovery

Voyager makes an interstellar discovery

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 26, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (42) | comments 14

The solar system is passing through an interstellar cloud that physics says should not exist. In the Dec. 24th issue of Nature, a team of scientists reveal how NASA's Voyager spacecraft have solved the mystery.


As shuttle's career nears an end, NASA turns focus to satellites

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 26, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (8) | comments 0

NASA heads into 2010 with the bittersweet assignment of retiring the space shuttle after nearly three decades. But that's not all the agency has planned: There are also launches of three new satellites aimed at better understanding ...


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Chicken waste turned to watts

Technology / Energy

created Dec 26, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (13) | comments 3

A Nevada energy developer says it has developed an environmentally clean way of using animal waste from chicken farms across the state to light up homes and offices. Green Energy Solutions wants to convert ...


Keck Telescopes Take Deeper Look at Planetary Nurseries

Keck Telescopes Take Deeper Look at Planetary Nurseries

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 23, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (10) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers using the W. M. Keck Observatory have peered far into a young planetary system, giving an unprecedented view of dust and gas that might eventually form planets similar to Jupiter, ...


Sun and moon trigger deep tremors on San Andreas Fault

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 23, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 1

The faint tug of the sun and moon on the San Andreas Fault stimulates tremors deep underground, suggesting that the rock 15 miles below is lubricated with highly pressurized water that allows the rock to slip with little ...


Stocking stuffer: Card good for eye, dental visit (AP)

Stocking stuffer: Card good for eye, dental visit

Technology / Other

created Dec 23, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- Health care providers are rolling out a different sort of stocking stuffer: Gift cards that can be used to pay bills and insurance premiums or for specific services at eye doctors and dentist offices.


Panasonic Develops High Energy Lithium-ion Battery Module  with High Reliability

Panasonic plans home-use storage cell

Technology / Energy

created Dec 23, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (21) | comments 10

Panasonic Corp., which recently made a successful takeover bid for Sanyo Electric Co., plans to market a lithium-ion storage cell for home use around fiscal 2011.


Taiwan has unveiled what it calls Asia's biggest solar power plant

Taiwan unveils Asia's biggest solar plant: govt

Technology / Energy

created Dec 23, 2009 | popularity 3.1 / 5 (8) | comments 3

Taiwan has unveiled what it calls Asia's biggest solar power plant as the island, which imports almost all its energy, seeks to tap into clean renewable resources, the government said Wednesday.


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Astronomers discover 'tilted planets'

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (15) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Exeter, UK, research has added to a growing evidence that several giant planets have orbits so tilted that their orbits can be perpendicular or even backwards relative to their ...



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