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Deep in arctic mud, geologists find strong evidence of climate change

15 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) )

How severe will global warming get? Jason P. Briner is looking for an answer buried deep in mud dozens of feet below the surface of lakes in the frigid Canadian Arctic.

Astronomers Discover New Star in Southern Cross

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15 hours ago | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 5 vote(s)

A research team at Swarthmore College discovered a previously unknown companion to the bright star, beta Crucis, in the Southern Cross. As a prominent member of the well-known constellation Crux, or the Southern ...

The Soyuz-2 rocket is installed at the launch pad of the Baikonur cosmodrome

Russia, Europe discuss jointly building a space shuttle

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17 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) )

Russian space agency Roskosmos and the European Space Agency (ESA) are in talks to jointly build a space shuttle that could be launched from a base in French Guiana, representatives of Russian space constructor ...

Rotting leaf litter study could lead to more accurate climate models

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18 hours ago | User rating: 3.7 / 5 after 6 vote(s)

Over the past decade, in numerous field sites throughout the world, mesh bags of leaf and root litter sat exposed to the elements, day and night, throughout the four seasons, gradually rotting away.

$NASA artist\'s concept painting shows the proposed New Horizons Spacecraft$

Spacecraft to Pluto Prepares for Jupiter Encounter

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18 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) )

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is on the doorstep of the solar system's largest planet. The spacecraft will study and swing past Jupiter, increasing speed on its voyage toward Pluto, the Kuiper Belt and beyond.

Severe storms batter northwestern Europe

Space & Earth science / Environment

22 hours ago | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 8 vote(s)

A severe storm front has battered the British Isles and Germany, causing havoc with shipping and leaving one man dead in England, with forecasters predicting worse weather to come.

Integral sees the Galactic centre playing hide and seek

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22 hours ago | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 10 vote(s)

ESA's gamma ray observatory Integral has caught the centre of our galaxy in a moment of rare quiet. A handful of the most energetic high-energy sources surrounding the black hole at the centre of the Galaxy ...

Alberto -- The Atlantic's First 2006 Storm

The 2006 hurricane season was near normal

Space & Earth science / Earth Sciences

21 hours ago | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 6 vote(s)

After the record setting season of 2005 with 27 named tropical cyclones, many
meteorologists and hurricane specialists were forecasting another above average hurricane season for 2006, but it didn't happen. ...

Icicles hang from an orange treeA truck drives past trees covered in ice

Snow in southern California as cold snap grips US

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23 hours ago | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 7 vote(s)

Snow has fallen in normally balmy southern California, as Americans coped with a deadly nationwide cold snap that has left hundreds of thousands in the dark and caused billions in crop damage.

ROV discovers Antarctic seafloor fauna

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22 hours ago | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) )

Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROV) remain an efficient technology to uncover the secrets of Antarctic seafloor fauna. As a precursor to the International Polar Year 2007/2008, the current Polarstern expedition ...

UW Telescope Provides Critical Wide-Field Images

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18 hours ago | User rating: not rated yet

A low-powered amateur telescope is helping student researchers at the University of Wyoming to provide data essential to understanding fundamental properties of stellar objects. They reported their work at the recent American ...