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Avatar Posted by dculpepper 390 days ago (http://www.sciam.com)
Category: Space & Time | Tags: space
Stargazers have yet to lay eyes on any of the nearly 240 planets detected outside our solar system. These so-called exoplanets are too faint for current telescopes to distinguish from the stars they orbit*; instead astronomers rely on indirect metho [ Read More ] »
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Avatar Posted by dculpepper 390 days ago (http://www.sciencebase.com)
Category: Earth & Environment | Tags: energy alternative energy environment
The researchers have designed and tested three foot warmers that can store up solar energy during sunshine hours and then be used during cold evenings as a sustainable alternative to electric heaters. The optimum temperature, the team found in their [ Read More ] »
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Avatar Posted by dculpepper 406 days ago (http://www.sciam.com)
Category: Space & Time | Tags: space
When people talk about a moment being burned into memory, they usually mean it in a negative way: President John F. Kennedy’s assassination, Princess Diana’s fatal car crash, 9/11. The launch of Sputnik 50 years ago this month was different. It cert [ Read More ] »
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Avatar Posted by dculpepper 406 days ago (http://www.sciam.com)
Category: Space & Time | Tags: space
The moon, a luminous disk in the inky sky, appears suddenly above the broad crescent of Earth’s horizon. The four astronauts in the Orion crew exploration vehicle have witnessed several such spectacular moonrises since their spacecraft reached orbit [ Read More ] »
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Avatar Posted by dculpepper 406 days ago (http://www.sciam.com)
Category: Space & Time | Tags: space
Astronomers have detected the first planet orbiting a star that has passed through the red giant phase, the massive bloating that befalls sun-like stars when their nuclear fuel begins to run out. [ Read More ] »
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Avatar Posted by dculpepper 412 days ago (http://www.sciam.com)
Category: Space & Time | Tags: space
New measurements provide the strongest evidence yet for wriggling magnetic waves that may explain why the solar corona is a good 200 times hotter than the surface of the sun: regular pulsations in the speed of charged, high-energy gas or plasma stre [ Read More ] »
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Avatar Posted by dculpepper 412 days ago (http://www.sciam.com)
Category: Space & Time | Tags: space
Jack Bacon from the Mission Analysis & Integration Group in NASA's ISS Program Integration Office explains the complexities surrounding the ISS and its use. [ Read More ] »
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Avatar Posted by dculpepper 502 days ago (http://scienceblogs.com)
Category: Animals & Plants | Tags: animals behavior zoology
If you live in the small village of Nachu in Kenya, watch out, because a group of approximately 300 marauding monkeys is out to steal your food, sexually harass your women and attack and kill your livestock! In a truly amazing incidence of interspec [ Read More ] »
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Avatar Posted by dculpepper 503 days ago (http://engineering.curiouscatblog.net)
Category: Health & Medicine | Tags: exercise health life science
Scientists have suspected for decades that exercise, particularly regular aerobic exercise, can affect the brain. But they could only speculate as to how. Now an expanding body of research shows that exercise can improve the performance of the brain [ Read More ] »
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Avatar Posted by dculpepper 503 days ago (http://news.wired.com)
Category: Fossils & Ruins | Tags: dinosaur fossils t-rex
The Tyrannosaurus rex would have been able to outrun soccer star David Beckham, according to research published Wednesday by the Royal Society scientific academy. Experts had argued previously that t [ Read More ] »
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Avatar Posted by dculpepper 503 days ago (http://news.wired.com)
Category: Earth & Environment | Tags: environment global warming
A federal judge ordered the Bush administration to issue two scientific reports on global warming, siding with environmentalists who sued the White House for failing to produce the documents. [ Read More ] »
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Avatar Posted by dculpepper 504 days ago (http://evominute.blogspot.com)
Category: Animals & Plants | Tags: evolution darwin darwinism
In a public outburst last fall, Poland's deputy education minister criticized evolution theory as a lie that science has cleverly sought to legitimize. Miroslaw Orzechowski has called for a debate o [ Read More ] »
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