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• Voyager spacecrafts solve fluffy mystery

  
  Physics Today News Picks — Authority: 439
  Physics Today : Our solar system is passing through a cloud of interstellar material, nicknamed "local fluff" or " the local interstellar cloud " by astronomers and now data from the decades-old Voyager spacecraft can explain why the material exists. The results are published in Nature . An artists concept of ...
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• Earth Top 10: No. 5 - The Mega-Quake

  
  Discovery News - Technology — Authority: 154
  [Editors note: See the whole Decades Top 10 Earth Stories] Viewed from space, perhaps, or the disinterested birds eye views of computer simulations, the great Sumatra-Andaman earthquake of 2004 wouldve been a quiet, curious event; a seismic pebble dropped in ...
  23 hours ago

• Powerful quake jolts eastern Indonesia

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 741
  Jakarta, Dec 26 (IANS) An earthquake measuring 6.7 on the Richter scale Saturday jolted the Maluku province in eastern Indonesia, the country’s Meteorology and Geophysics Agency said.No tsunami warning was issued, Xinhua reported. The quake occurred at 0815 GMT with the epicentre 152 km northwest of Tual area in ...
  4 days ago

• GOCE satellite probing how pull of gravity varies across Earth

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 741
  London, December 25 (ANI): Reports indicate that Europe’s GOCE (Gravity Field and Steady-State Ocean Circulation Explorer) satellite is returning remarkable new data on the way the pull of gravity varies across Earth.GOCE was launched by the European Space Agency (ESA) in March from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in ...
  5 days ago

• Why didnt the young Earth freeze?

  
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  Nature News : Nitrogen now stored in the planetary crust and mantle may have prevented the early Earth from freezing, scientists suggest. The study lends weight to the idea that on geological timescales atmospheric pressure helps to regulate climate and habitability of Earth-like planets.
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• Stuck Mars rover makes another discovery

  
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  SPACE.com : Even though NASAs Mars rover Spirit has been trapped in the sand for months, the robot has still managed to report new facts about the red planet—all by just spinning its wheels. These findings shed light on the history of water on Mars.
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• Mysteries of Greenlands ice

  
  Discovery News - Technology — Authority: 154
  Ice scientists are changing their thinking about the melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet, the two-mile deep block of ice that holds enough water to fill the Gulf of Mexico and put coastal regions awash in rising seas. Watching surface ...
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• Copenhagen climate conference’s giant globe: A sign of things to come?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  An enormous white globe dangled in Copenhagen’s Bella Centre, the location of the world’s largest ever leaders’ summit on climate change, could be an unintended yet chilling sign of things to come. An observant attendee made it clear by scribbling on the giant model of the earth that its designers forgot to ...
  1 week ago

• Did NOAA See Fire Underwater?

  
  Discovery News - Technology — Authority: 154
  Yesterday I posted the video below on the underwater eruptions captured by researchers last May. If you haven’t seen the video (click on the image to view) – I recommend you do. You’ll be among the first human beings in ...
  1 week ago

• Mines Minister Says an Aerial Survey has Revealed More Minerals Deposits in Nigeria

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 153
  Nigeria’s Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Mrs Diezani Alison-Madueke, says the recently completed geophysical airborne survey of Nigeria has shown new mineral deposits. Alison-Madueke told journalists in Abuja on Wednesday that the minerals found in all the zones in Nigeria would soon be announced after ...
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• Sarkozy’s tough message on climate – did it get through?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  After one and a half days of mostly uninspired and often irrelevant speeches by world leaders, French President Nicolas Sarkozy walked to the podium at UN climate talks in Copenhagen and produced a seven minute rallying cry - focused, energetic and packed with more punch than the rest put together. Jabbing his ...
  1 week ago

• Robot torpedo crosses the Atlantic

  
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  washingtonpost.com : An aquatic glider called the Scarlet Knight became the first robot to cross an ocean last week. Scarlet Knight , also called RU-27 was at sea for 221 days. Her predecessor had disappeared on a similar trip, probably killed by a shark. The people responsible for building, funding and ...
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• The coldest place on the Moon

  
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  BBC News : The Moon has the coldest place in the Solar System measured by a spacecraft. Nasas Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has used its Diviner instrument since July to probe the insides of permanently shadowed craters on Earths satellite. Over the last few months temperatures in the lunar polar regions ...
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• The strange spectacle of too many heads of government

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  There are around 120 heads of government at the Copenhagen climate talks, so many that it’s hard to keep track of the exact number. Their presence has been trumpeted as a sign of the world’s commitment to tackling climate change. But in return for showing up, they all want a chance to address the conference – ...
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• Auxiliary verbs at 10pm and the scarcest resource – sleep

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  The issues are global and urgent, but the bureaucracy can sometimes be mind-bogglingly slow and petty. After a day of stalled talks, the 193 nations at UN-led climate talks finally met for a plenary to discuss one of the main drafts floating around the summit, just two days (and two hours) from the deadline for a ...
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• Can you trust the science?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  Today we pose the question to our virtual panel of experts, “How far can we trust the science of climate change?” Join the debate and leave your comments below. Bjorn Lomborg , statistician and author of “The Skeptical Environmentalist”: The vast majority of climate scientists tell us that increases ...
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• Study: Earths polar ice sheets vulnerable to even moderate global warming

  
  Science Blog - Science news straight from the source — Authority: 619
  A new analysis of the geological record of the Earths sea level, carried out by scientists at Princeton and Harvard universities and published in the Dec. 16 issue of Nature, employs a novel statistical approach that reveals the planets polar ice sheets are vulnerable to large-scale melting even under moderate ...
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• Tweets after earthquakes help scientists

  
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  Wired.com : A team of US Geological Survey scientists have developed a web service that combines seismic data about an earthquake with Tweets of surprise and angst from the popular microblogging service’s users. The goal of the project is to improve emergency response by providing a crowdsourced window of the ...
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• Satellite sees "lumpy" layer of CO2

  
  Discovery News - Technology — Authority: 154
  An instrument aboard a seven-year-old satellite designed to help weather forecasters is proving to be a powerful new tool in climate monitoring by detecting the distribution of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. And it turns out, NASA scientists say -- ...
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• Rainy Taiwan faces awkward water shortage

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
   Chronically rainy Taiwan faces a rare water shortage as leaders ask that people on the dense, consumption-happy island of 23 million finally start changing habits as dry weather is forecast into early 2010.  Taiwan, a west Pacific island covered with rainforests and topical fruit orchards, is used to rain in ...
  2 weeks ago

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