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Experts examine risks to birds from wind turbines

Experts examine risks to birds from wind turbines (w/ Video)

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jun 24, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Are wind turbines dangerous to billions of migrating birds?





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Caltech scientists discover fog on Titan

Scientists discover fog on Titan

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 18, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (11) | comments 2

Saturn's largest moon, Titan, looks to be the only place in the solar system—aside from our home planet, Earth—with copious quantities of liquid (largely, liquid methane and ethane) sitting on its surface. ...


Ancient Greek Temple

Houses of the rising sun: Research sheds new light on Ancient Greeks

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 4

New research at the University of Leicester has identified scores of Sicilian temples built to face the rising Sun, shedding light on the practices of the Ancient Greeks.


A bubbling ball of gas

A bubbling ball of gas (w/ Video)

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (18) | comments 7

The Sun is a bubbling mass. Packages of gas rise and sink, lending the sun its grainy surface structure, its granulation. Dark spots appear and disappear, clouds of matter dart up - and behind the whole thing ...


Did India invent the nose job?

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (7) | comments 4

An Indian doctor working in 600 B.C. might have been the world's first plastic surgeon, according to a new exhibition that challenges Western domination of the history of science and technology.


Orionids Meteor Shower Lights Up the Sky

Orionids Meteor Shower Lights Up the Sky

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Earth is currently passing through a stream of debris from Halley's Comet, lighting up the night sky with the "fireworks" of the annual Orionids meteor shower.


Twin Keck telescopes probe dual dust disks

Twin Keck telescopes probe dual dust disks

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Sep 24, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Astronomers using the twin 10-meter telescopes at the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii have explored one of the most compact dust disks ever resolved around another star. If placed in our own solar system, ...


Greenland's melt mystery unfolds, at glacial pace (AP)

Greenland's melt mystery unfolds, at glacial pace

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 10, 2009 | popularity 3.1 / 5 (8) | comments 1

(AP) -- Suddenly and without warning, the gigantic river of ice sped up, causing it to spit icebergs ever faster into the ocean off southeastern Greenland.


Wind power: Obama's promises just hot air so far

Technology / Energy

created Sep 09, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (2) | comments 0

President Barack Obama is still at least a year away from seeing wind turbines take root anywhere off the U.S. coast, even though his administration has promised to make offshore wind a priority, and even though developers ...


Setting sail with Greenpeace

Setting sail with Greenpeace

Space & Earth / Environment

created Sep 07, 2009 | popularity 1.6 / 5 (7) | comments 4

A pioneering Greenpeace arctic expedition has joined forces with a University of St Andrews academic to investigate the impacts of climate change.


Wolf hunt is on in Idaho -- for now (Update)

Biology / Ecology

created Sep 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- The first public wolf hunt in decades in the lower 48 states is off to a slow start.



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