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And here is a new M. Kerjman publication “The X-Challenge: Realm of Senses”.
If even at the end it brings about just some solutions to tackling a pig flue and...
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The quest to search for more planets has stretched to another higher scale, with our progression taking us to the closest Earth-like planet. Michel Mayor and his team...
made popular Apr 22 2009
AP, Hatfield
In the search for Earth-like planets, astronomers zeroed in Tuesday on two places that look awfully familiar to home. One is close to the right size. The other is in...
made popular Apr 21 2009
AP, Hatfield
Scientists say they’ve discovered a planet outside our solar system that is close to Earth in size _ far different from the behemoths they had previously seen so...
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NASA’s new planet-hunting telescope has beamed back the first images of a patch of faraway sky in the Milky Way galaxy where it hopes to find Earth-like planets.
made popular Apr 16 2009
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NASA’s planet-hunting spacecraft, Kepler, rocketed into space Friday night on a historic voyage to track down other Earths in a faraway patch of the Milky Way...
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NASA’s planet-hunting spacecraft, Kepler, has blasted off aboard a rocket from Cape Canaveral.
made popular Mar 7 2009
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NASA’s planet-hunting spacecraft, Kepler, is poised for liftoff, and everything seems to be going well in the final stages of Friday’s countdown.
made popular Mar 6 2009
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NASA will soon be on the lookout for possible Earths in one faraway corner of the galaxy.
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NASA is on the verge of launching a planet-hunting spacecraft.
made popular Mar 5 2009
The Sun, Water vapor, Earth’s orbit, Volcanoes, Interstellar clouds, Cosmic rays, Tectonic plates, Land use, CO2, Sunspots, Gravitational pulls, Ocean currents...
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Astronomers have found a planet with a galactic case of hot flashes. In just six hours, this planet four times the size of Jupiter heats up by more than 1,200 degrees,...
made popular Jan 28 2009
If I loathe anyone on the planet it is individuals who self-identify as “morning people”. I was forcefully reminded of this antipathy while watching footage...
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In their recent paper on Trade, Technology and the Environment: Why have poor countries regulated sooner?, Mary Lovely and David Popp observe that late developers have...
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According to Dr. Peter McCabe, a world-renowned scientist currently working at CSIRO in Australia, any realistic analysis of future energy sources can only conclude...
made popular Oct 8 2008
It has been estimated that within the continental United States there is a sizable resource of accessible geothermal energy, which could supply about 3,000 times the...
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A newly discovered dwarf planet in the solar system has been given a Hawaiian name: Haumea (how-MAY’-ah), after the Hawaiian goddess of earth and fertility.
made popular Sep 19 2008
Rocks can be many things: they were probably our earliest weapons, they’ve been ballast on our journeys of exploration, even modern-art pieces.
made popular Aug 31 2008
Once a year, tens of thousands of tourists gather in a town in Spain to hurl over one hundred tons of overripe tomatoes … all in just one hour.
made popular Aug 31 2008
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Brown dwarfs are hard to find, and it has always been the trouble to accurately assess their size. But now, astronomers have successfully discovered a pair of young...
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These days we hear of new planets every now and then. While some have been spotted around more than 150 stars, other are reportedly been discovered circling...
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What could be the very beginning of planets that have been forming around a failed star? NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has rightfully decoded them. The infrared...
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