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Ships warned about icebergs headed for New Zealand (AP)

Ships warned about icebergs headed for New Zealand

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Ships are on alert and maritime authorities are monitoring the movements of hundreds of menacing icebergs drifting toward New Zealand in the southern Pacific Ocean, officials said.


The creature was found at a depth of 161 metres

Japanese researchers film rare baby fish 'fossil'

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 4

Japanese marine researchers said Tuesday they had found and successfully filmed a young coelacanth -- a rare type of fish known as "a living fossil" -- in deep water off Indonesia.


Terra satellite spots Tropical Cyclone Anja, the first of the southern season

Terra satellite spots Tropical Cyclone Anja, the first of the southern season

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

NASA's Terra satellite captured a stunning image of Anja, the first tropical cyclone of the southern Hemisphere cyclone season. When Anja formed on Saturday, November 14, in the Southern Indian Ocean, about ...


Whale-sized genetic study largest ever for southern hemisphere humpbacks

Whale-sized genetic study largest ever for southern hemisphere humpbacks

Biology / Plants & Animals

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

After 15 years of research in the waters of the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans, scientists from the Wildlife Conservation Society, the American Museum of Natural History, and an international coalition of ...


Long feared extinct, rare bird rediscovered

Long feared extinct, rare bird rediscovered

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Known to science only by two specimens described in 1900, a critically endangered crow has re-emerged on a remote, mountainous Indonesian island thanks in part to a Michigan State University scientist.


e-Infrastructures give real boost to virtual observatories

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Oct 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- New tools and systems developed by European researchers are helping astronomers access data centres from anywhere in the world. From charting new stars to finding new meaning in old stellar objects, the result ...


The GalileoMobile starts its South American voyage

The GalileoMobile starts its South American voyage

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

The GalileoMobile is a Special Project of the International Year of Astronomy 2009 (IYA2009), which is a global celebration commemorating the first use of a telescope to view the Universe by the Italian astronomer ...


CU-Boulder Unmanned Aircraft Buzz Over Gigantic Holes in Antarctic Sea Ice

CU-Boulder Unmanned Aircraft Buzz Over Gigantic Holes in Antarctic Sea Ice

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 10, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A series of record-setting unmanned research flights are providing University of Colorado at Boulder researchers with some of the first 3-D observations of gaping holes in the Antarctic sea ice known as polynyas ...


Return of swine flu: What's ahead for Americans? (AP)

Return of swine flu: What's ahead for Americans?

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Aug 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- The alarm sounded with two sneezy children in California in April. Just five months later, the never-before-seen swine flu has become the world's dominant strain of influenza, and it's putting a shockingly ...


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Venomous sea snakes play heads or tails with their predators

Biology / Ecology

created Aug 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

In a deadly game of heads or tails venomous sea snakes in the Pacific and Indian Oceans deceive their predators into believing they have two heads, claims research published today in Marine Ecology.


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.


The auroras in the Northern and the Southern hemispheres are not identical

The auroras in the Northern and the Southern hemispheres are not identical (w/ Video)

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jul 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 12

In a Nature letter published July 23, 2009, Norwegian researchers present evidence that the auroras in the Northern and the Southern hemispheres can be totally asymmetric. These findings contradict the co ...


Study suggests H1N1 virus more dangerous than suspected

Study suggests H1N1 virus more dangerous than suspected

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jul 13, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (20) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new, highly detailed study of the H1N1 flu virus shows that the pathogen is more virulent than previously thought.


Ozone hole reduces atmospheric CO2 uptake in the Southern Ocean

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jun 24, 2009 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 2

Does ozone have an impact on the ocean's role as a "carbon sink"? Yes, according to researchers from France. Using original simulations, they have demonstrated that the hole in the ozone layer reduces atmospheric carbon uptake ...


Cassini Finds Titan's Clouds Hang on to Summer

Cassini Finds Titan's Clouds Hang on to Summer

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jun 03, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Cloud chasers studying Saturn's moon Titan say its clouds form and move much like those on Earth, but in a much slower, more lingering fashion.