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As simple as it can get to convey the message of the quality of air around us! Even the kindergarten kids will be able to estimate the intensity of air pollution in their atmosphere. A company called Aérophile announced its recent launch of the gas...
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AP, Denver
We supposedly live in a classless society, but the velvet ropes have been spreading like weeds in recent years. How odd, then, that the power-saturated floor of the...
made popular Aug 28 2008
The asteroid, Apophis, is estimated to be perhaps 270 metres across and it will pass close to Earth in 2029, well inside the orbit of the Moon and closing in to the...
made popular Aug 25 2008
Why haven’t we met aliens yet? And why aren’t we sending rockets all over the solar system? There is only one plausible explanation. Earth is being...
made popular Aug 25 2008
Could it be too late to save the global ocean, which covers 70% of the earth’s surface?
made popular Aug 21 2008
Something beneath the surface is changing Earth’s protective magnetic field, which may leave satellites and other space assets vulnerable to high-energy...
made popular Aug 19 2008
That may seem a bit counter-intuitive; after all, the Earth is certainly central to the rhetoric, the memetic of environmentalism. Most environmental discussions focus...
made popular Aug 19 2008
For years I got blank stares when I told people that The Day the Earth Stood Still was my favorite movie.
made popular Aug 17 2008
On an arid outcropping of basalt in northwestern Australia, some of the oldest rocks on Earth lie exposed to the fierce sun. Formed at the bottom of an ancient ocean,...
made popular Aug 10 2008
A television company has joined forces with a social networking site to send a message to the nearest theoretically inhabitable planet. But can our television and radio...
made popular Aug 8 2008
The common mantra that there is nothing special about our place in the universe is questioned today by a simulation of the birth of our Solar System.
made popular Aug 8 2008
In the 21st Century, the term “flat-earther” is used to describe someone who is spectacularly - and seemingly wilfully - ignorant. But there is a group of...
made popular Aug 6 2008
AP, Los Angeles
Scientists operating the Phoenix spacecraft say the Martian soil near the north pole landing site is similar to what can be found in the Chile desert on Earth.
made popular Aug 5 2008
Time is fast running out to stop irreversible climate change, a group of global warming experts warns today. We have only 100 months to avoid disaster. Andrew Simms...
made popular Aug 1 2008
AP, Pasadena
At least one of many large, lake-like features on Saturn’s moon Titan studied by the international Cassini spacecraft contains liquid hydrocarbons, making it the...
made popular Jul 31 2008
A total solar eclipse will darken some of Earth’s skies on Friday, but geography, weather, the economy and even the Olympics are combining to make it a hard and...
made popular Jul 29 2008
Richard Branson has triggered a new space race with the launch of a high-altitude jet name White Knight Two ‘Eve’ in the US. The jet will be used for his project to...
made popular Jul 29 2008
AP, Washington
A total solar eclipse will darken some of Earth’s skies on Friday, but geography, weather, the economy and even the Olympics are combining to make it a hard and...
made popular Jul 28 2008
AP, Los Angeles
Aerospace engineers have been holed up in a Mojave Desert hangar for four years, fashioning a commercial spaceship to loft rich tourists some 62 miles above Earth. Now...
made popular Jul 26 2008
For most of our planet’s history until fairly recently, the overall pattern has been for the Earth to be hot, with no permanent ice to be found anywhere.
made popular Jul 25 2008
Belief in aliens came to a new high when former NASA astronaut and moon-walker Dr. Edgar Mitchell claimed that aliens exist. The Apollo 14 mission veteran asserts that...
made popular Jul 25 2008
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Forests are natures biggest recycle bins, recycling not only nutrients but also essential atmospheric gases. According to a paper published in the journal Science,...
made popular Jun 16 2008
Levels of the greenhouse gas methane in the atmosphere seem to be rising having remained stable for nearly 10 years.
made popular Apr 25 2008
The worsening effects of climate change to human lives have been raised to global concern. Most nations around the world are finding possible solutions in controlling...
made popular Jan 19 2008
What is it that can save our earth from turning into a pressure cooker? Is it the carbon trading or carbon offsetting or carbon capping that would become the savior of...
made popular Oct 6 2007
Oxygen, it is that part of our atmosphere which enables aerobic organisms (each one of us) to breathe and sustain life.
About 2.5 billion years ago when oxygen first...
made popular Oct 1 2007
A giant banana is being launched into space with the aim of floating in the low-level atmosphere over Texas for a month. The project titled “Geostationary Banana...
made popular Sep 14 2007
The way we are fuelling the atmosphere, it is estimated that we will be left with no glaciers, no ice sheets to cover our towering mountains in the next 50 years. And...
made popular Aug 2 2007
Magnificent, majestic, royal, breathtaking, and graceful are the words that describe the real meaning of luxury yachts. For the superyacht owners, the world is one big...
made popular May 25 2007
Images from the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope won’t be the same though there’s still a repair mission to Hubble but sooner or later the greatest...
made popular Dec 3 2006
The only moon in our solar system with its own atmosphere, it will surely grab scientist’s attention. Here, it is providing significant clues to support the...
made popular Nov 7 2006
Paul Crutzen , Nobel Prize Winner in Chemistry in 1995, of Germany’s Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, suggests infusing the stratosphere (above the...
made popular Aug 8 2006
Billed as environmentally friendly, alternative fuel is accessed by millions of drivers in 38 states outside New England. It generally costs pennies to 40 cents per...
made popular Feb 8 2006
Scientists have been warning these days that global warming due to pollutants may lead to the rise in sea level and other environmental disasters. But, a new finding...
made popular Dec 22 2005
If we are looking today on Mars we can notice that its atmosphere is absolutely transparently and very thin. We don’t see any clouds of water vapor. Clouds that...
made popular Nov 30 2005
History of Earth’s atmosphere is revealed by the longest ice-core record of climate history ever obtained. Levels of greenhouse gases are once again proved to be...
made popular Nov 25 2005
What is Climate Change?
“Climate change” means a change of climate which is attributed directly or indirectly to human activity that alters the composition...
made popular Nov 19 2005
Are you ready for a designer talk? As the winter sets in, guess, everyone is preparing to place a fireplace in the living room. Here is what designer Linda Allen has to...
made popular Nov 11 2005
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