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A team of scientists from Princeton University has found that the so called quantum Hall effect, which is observed in two-dimensional electron systems subjected to low temperatures and strong magnetic fields can occur in a bulk crystal of...
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The Earth is alone among the planets of our solar system in having plate tectonics. Venus, a near twin of our planet in size and density, has no tectonic activity....
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Hundreds of feet beneath Earth’s surface, a few seasoned cave explorers venture where no human has set foot. Their headlamps illuminate mud-covered walls, gypsum...
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There were/are plenty prophesies threatening the Earth with the end of the world in the nearest feature around-and this BBC story of The Green New Deal Group is, one...
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NEW YORK _ Give up worldly goods and help save the Earth.
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A spacecraft sent on a mission to inspect comets has filmed the Earth and its Moon from 50 million kilometres away, making an alien’s-eye view of our world.
made popular Jul 19 2008
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Pope Benedict XVI’s marathon journey to Australia gave him a bird’s eye view of a beautiful but battered planet Earth.
made popular Jul 17 2008
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Earth scored another Top 10 finish in June _ climate wise.
made popular Jul 16 2008
If you think we haven’t screwed the Earth enough, here’s more bad news. We have, apparently, put almost one third of the world’s coral reefs at risk of extinction...
made popular Jul 12 2008
Milan Ćirković of the Astronomical Observatory of Belgrade, and one of the world’s leading authorities on astrobiology and the evolution of galaxies and...
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A leading scientist has dismissed suggestions that the human race has ever been visited by aliens from outer space.
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Global challenges like soaring oil prices and the Earth’s rising temperature await President Bush at a summit of top industrialized nations, but first he must...
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Global warming will be high on the list of priorities at the G8 summit in Japan and holding it next to Hokkaido’s natural reserves, organizers want to show the beauty...
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Astronomers have discovered that earth emots shrieking and chirps like sounds, that could be heard by any body trying to listen including the aliens.
These radio waves,...
made popular Jul 4 2008
Earth sits between two worlds that have been devastated by past climate catastrophes. In the effort to combat global warming, our neighbors- Mars and Venus (image)-...
made popular Jun 30 2008
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The Phoenix lander’s first taste test of soil near Mars’ north pole reveals a briny environment similar to what can be found in backyards on Earth,...
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Scientists unearthed a skull of the most primitive four-legged creature in Earth’s history, which should help them better understand the evolution of fish to...
made popular Jun 25 2008
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Gov. Charlie Crist on Wednesday evoked President Kennedy’s challenge to land on the moon and called for the same dedication and innovation to finding ways to save...
made popular Jun 25 2008
Planet hunters say it’s just a matter of time before they lasso Earth’s twin, which almost surely is hiding somewhere in our star-studded galaxy.
made popular Jun 25 2008
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Bizarre microbes flourish in the most punishing environments on Earth from the bone-dry Atacama Desert in Chile to the boiling hot springs of Yellowstone National Park...
made popular Jun 22 2008
A team of scientists led by University of Wisconsin-Madison geologists Takayuki Ushikubo, Valley and Noriko Kita have completed an analysis of ancient minerals called...
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Do you know that the Earth’s innards — more than a thousand miles beneath the surface – are nearly as steamy as our sun?! Yes, surprisingly, it is where the...
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Imagine a power equivalent to 150,000 times the strength of the earth’s magnetic field packed ito a shoebox, and the first thing to strike your mind is a perfect...
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It’s exciting that every planet and moon that we look at in our solar system is not only strange, but stranger than we expect. That’s a lot of fun,...
made popular Dec 21 2006
When it comes to the concept of space weather scientists tend to predict this unusual concept by the behavior of the solar wind electric field. Scientists have always...
made popular Dec 12 2006
The catalogue of extrasolar planets is growing continuously, containing more than 200 objects, and the detection of these exoplanets has almost become a routine....
made popular Nov 29 2006
Auroras on Earth happen, leaving the gazers pondering on the ever-happening outer world. But, when does it happen? It is when the solar wind interacts with our...
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Molecules spew outward from a dying star. These molecules are confined into narrow jets by a tightly-wound magnetic field. Astronomers used the National Science...
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North Pole shifting! Yes, it is. The north magnetic pole is shifting rapidly towards Russia. And it is moving at rapid clip—25 miles (40 kilometers) a year, new...
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