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NASA Calculates a Carbon Budget for California

Space & Earth / Environment

created 8 hours ago | popularity 2.4 / 5 (5) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- While world organizations struggle to find a benchmark and tracking standards for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, NASA has been supporting California’s new carbon emissions inventory report, using its satellite ...


Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Resumes Observations

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created 8 hours ago | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers are receiving new science data from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter after the spacecraft's six science instruments resumed observations today.


Herschel Space Telescope uncovers the sources of the Cosmic Infrared Background

Herschel Space Telescope uncovers the sources of the Cosmic Infrared Background

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created 9 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Using first observations with the PACS Instrument on board ESA’s Herschel Space Telescope, scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics and other institutions have ...


Astronomers find super-Earth using amateur, off-the-shelf technology

Astronomers Find Super-Earth Using Amateur, Off-the-Shelf Technology (w/ Video)

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created 9 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (10) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers announced today that they have discovered a "super-Earth" orbiting a red dwarf star 40 light-years from Earth. They found the distant planet with a small fleet of ground-based ...


Giant Planet Set for a Cataclysmic Show

Giant Planet Set for a Cataclysmic Show

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created 13 hours ago | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of Chinese astronomers have discovered a giant planet close to the exotic binary star system QS Virginis. Although dormant now, in the future the two stars will one day erupt in a violent ...


New way to break some of the strongest chemical bonds

New way to break some of the strongest chemical bonds

Chemistry / Materials Science

created 16 hours ago | popularity 4.5 / 5 (19) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at Cornell University in the U.S. have found a new way of breaking two of the strongest chemical bonds, at ambient temperature and pressure, and this breakthrough could lead to ...


Sick of swine flu? Toxic algae could be the next big threat

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 1

With a new theory surfacing that toxic algae rather than asteroids killed the dinosaurs, scientists are still trying to unravel the mystery of what caused a massive algae bloom off the Northwest Coast that left thousands ...


Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter

NASA unveils latest results from lunar mission

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

NASA's current mission in orbit around the moon, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, has been providing crucial insights about our nearest celestial neighbor since its launch in June. At a scientific ...


Miracle light: Can lasers solve the energy crisis?

Technology / Energy

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (12) | comments 3

Next year will mark the 50th birthday of the laser, one of the most productive and widely used mega-inventions of the last century. Scientists hope that 2010 also will see the launch of laser technology's greatest challenge: ...


Ecosystem, vegetation affect intensity of urban heat island effect

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

NASA researchers studying urban landscapes have found that the intensity of the "heat island" created by a city depends on the ecosystem it replaced and on the regional climate. Urban areas developed in arid and semi-arid ...



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