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World's Largest Tornado Experiment Heads for Great Plains »
Posted by: myfairlady 6 months, 3 weeks ago in Science & Technology
The largest and most ambitious tornado study in history will begin next week, as dozens of scientists deploy radars and other ground-based instruments across the ...
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The End Is Coming in '2012'? »
Posted by: engineer 5 months ago in Arts & Entertainment
Few people have destroyed the world more than Roland Emmerich . In his mega-hit " Independence Day ," aliens laid waste to pretty much every metropolitan center on ...
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Astronomers 'Catch' Shooting Star for First Time »
Posted by: myfairlady 8 months ago in Science & Technology
For the first time scientists matched a meteorite found on Earth with a specific asteroid that became a fireball plunging through the sky. It gives ...
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Astronomers Discover Link Between Supermassive Black Holes And Galaxy Formation »
Posted by: myfairlady 9 months, 3 weeks ago in Science & Technology
A pair of astronomers from Texas and Germany have used a telescope at The University of Texas at Austin's McDonald Observatory together with Hubble ...
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NASA Discovers: It Is Snowing On Mars »
Posted by: Neophile 10 months ago in Science & Technology
... or at least in the sky above it. This is just one extraordinary piece of information being sent back to us by the landers, probes ...
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The Four Seasons of Titan: Weather & Climate Change on Saturn's Moon (VIDEO) »
Posted by: ebookey 5 months, 3 weeks ago in Science & Technology
It seems perfectly appropriate that one of the prime candidates for life in our solar system, Saturn's largest moon, Titan, should have surface lakes ...
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Astronomer Champions The Study Of Solar Eclipses In The Modern Era »
Posted by: myfairlady 5 months, 1 week ago in Science & Technology
Championing the modern-day use of solar eclipses to solve a set of modern problems is the goal of a review article written by Jay Pasachoff ...
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Two Highly Complex Organic Molecules Detected In Space »
Posted by: myfairlady 7 months ago in Science & Technology
Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR) in Bonn, Germany, Cornell University, USA, and the University of Cologne, Germany, have detected two ...
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Astronomers Discover Youngest And Lowest Mass Dwarfs In Solar Neighborhood »
Posted by: myfairlady 7 months ago in Science & Technology
Astronomers have found three brown dwarfs with estimated masses of less than 10 times that of Jupiter, making them among the youngest and lowest mass ...
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How Magnetic Forces Shape Cosmic Jets Of Matter Streaming Out Of Stars »
Posted by: myfairlady 9 months, 2 weeks ago in Science & Technology
Some of the most breathtaking objects in the cosmos are the jets of matter streaming out of stars, but astrophysicists have long been at a ...
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Astrometry.net »
Posted by: kenekaplan 9 months ago in Science & Technology
From the writeup "The "blind astrometry server" is a program which monitors the Astrometry group on Flickr, looking for new photos of the night sky ...
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NASA global warming satellite crashes after launch »
Posted by: mafihotz 9 months ago in Science & Technology
A NASA mission to monitor global warming from space ended Tuesday when a satellite plunged into the ocean near Antarctica minutes after launch.
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5 Astronomy Apps for iPhone 3G | I Love My iPhone! »
Posted by: Going2Oahu 5 months, 3 weeks ago in Science & Technology
The Apple iPhone is such an amazing platform.
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Asteroid Comes Close to Earth | TechJaws »
Posted by: blogzilla 8 months, 3 weeks ago in Science & Technology
This feels like something out of a movie, but what’ s so bizarre is hearing about it now and not before it passed Earth. The ...
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Year's Biggest Full Moon Friday Night »
Posted by: TechnologyExpert 11 months, 2 weeks ago in Science & Technology
The full moon Friday night will be the biggest one of the year as Earth's natural satellite reaches its closest point to our planet.
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