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Finding Twin Earths: Harder Than We Thought

Finding Twin Earths: Harder Than We Thought

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Mar 20, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (15) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Does a twin Earth exist somewhere in our galaxy? Astronomers are getting closer and closer to finding an Earth-sized planet in an Earth-like orbit. NASA's Kepler spacecraft just launched to ...





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Icy moons of Saturn and Jupiter may have conditions needed for life

Icy moons of Saturn and Jupiter may have conditions needed for life

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created 19 hours ago | popularity 4.8 / 5 (14) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists once thought that life could originate only within a solar system's "habitable zone," where a planet would be neither too hot nor too cold for liquid water to exist on its surface. ...


Miracle light: Can lasers solve the energy crisis?

Technology / Energy

created 19 hours ago | popularity 4.3 / 5 (12) | comments 1

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: ...


Unique 'Climate One Stop' Web Site Unveiled in Copenhagen

Unique 'Climate One Stop' Web Site Unveiled in Copenhagen

Space & Earth / Environment

created 20 hours ago | popularity 2.9 / 5 (7) | comments 4

There's a storm brewing -- a storm of information, that is, in climate and environmental research. People are wading through the turbulence, trying to make sense of it all.


NASA Outlines Recent Breakthroughs in Greenhouse Gas Research

NASA Outlines Recent Breakthroughs in Greenhouse Gas Research (w/ Video)

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created 21 hours ago | popularity 3.4 / 5 (5) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers studying carbon dioxide, a leading greenhouse gas and a key driver of global climate change, now have a new tool at their disposal: daily global measurements of carbon dioxide ...


Greenland glaciers:  What lies beneath

Greenland glaciers: What lies beneath

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created 21 hours ago | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Scientists who study the melting of Greenland's glaciers are discovering that water flowing beneath the ice plays a much more complex role than they previously imagined.


Hubble's Festive View of a Grand Star-Forming Region (w/ Video)

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created 21 hours ago | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Just in time for the holidays: a Hubble Space Telescope picture postcard of hundreds of brilliant blue stars wreathed by warm, glowing clouds. The festive portrait is the most detailed view of the largest ...


New results from a terra-ific decade in orbit

New results from a terra-ific decade in orbit

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created 21 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

December 18, 2009, marks the tenth year since the launch of Terra, one of NASA's "flagship" Earth observing satellites. But the decade is more than just a mechanical milestone. With each additional day and ...


New Bacterial Behavior Discovered

New Bacterial Behavior Discovered

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created 22 hours ago | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Bacteria dance the electric slide, officially named electrokinesis by the USC geobiologists who discovered the phenomenon.


MESSENGER team releases first global map of mercury

MESSENGER team releases first global map of mercury

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created 22 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's MESSENGER mission team and cartographic experts from the U. S. Geological Survey have created a critical tool for planning the first orbital observations of the planet Mercury - a global ...


US-China showdown still looms over climate talks (AP)

US-China showdown still looms over climate talks

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- In a showdown between the world's two largest polluters, China accused the United States and other rich nations Tuesday of backsliding on fighting global warming and the top U.S. envoy said Chinese ...



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