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The fatidic date of December 21, 2012 was linked by many to the drastic decrease in strength of our planet's magnetic field and to the complete reversal of its poles. This would leave Earth undefended against solar radiation, as well as force our satellites down from their orbit, wrecking the GPS system, further... |
6 October 2008
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Astronomers have puzzled the international scientific community once again by announcing that Earth and its surrounding solar systems may exist in some sort of “bubble,” inside which the flow of space and time is altered compared with the outside world. This contradicts the Copernican principle, which sta... |
1 October 2008
08:44 GMT |
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Canadian researchers have uncovered what may be the oldest chunk of Earth's crust, but the sparks lit by some techniques used in order to date the rocks may cast doubt over the whole finding. For the past four years, Jonathan O'Neill and his colleagues from the McGill University in Canada have been obs... |
26 September 2008
10:26 GMT |
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There is little doubt now about what causes climate change, but whether or not carbon dioxide is the sole factor responsible for global warming is another subject of debate, says Manuel Vazquez of the Canary Islands' Astrophysics Institute. Statistics indicate that the Sun could account for as much as 20 percent... |
21 July 2008
11:22 GMT |
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As expected, the Gliese 581 system did not disappoint and is now revealing the smallest planet outside our solar system, bringing the total number of planets found orbiting around the red dwarf star to three. When the star was first targeted by astronomers nearly two years ago, only a single planet was detected. The ... |
21 July 2008
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NASA's comet chaser Deep Impact became famous on July 4, 2005 as the first spacecraft in the history of space exploration to collide an impactor into the nucleus of a comet in order to study its internal composition. As it turns out, Deep Impact provided recently two short films showing how our planet and its mo... |
18 July 2008
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On August 1, in certain areas of Canada, Greenland, Russia and China broad daylight will suddenly turn to total darkness for a brief moment as the Moon aligns with the Earth and the Sun, casting its shadow on the surface of the planet. It will be yet another unforgettable and unique spectacle, which unfortunately onl... |
16 July 2008
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For some reason or another, all of us like to believe that Earth is special - after all, our planet is the only one able to sustain life that we know of. Indeed, Earth is special in its own way, but life would not have been possible without the significant contribution of material coming form space. In fact, a new st... |
14 June 2008
04:46 GMT |
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Until now, several hundred planets have been found orbiting around nearby stars while the number of moons remained at a constant zero. It's not that they're not there, it's just that we can't see them with today's technology. To put it even simpler, the smallest planet ever found was a terres... |
9 June 2008
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Today is the last day of Google I/O developer meeting, which is held at Moscone West Center in San Francisco. The conference was meant to offer developers using Google products a better perspective on Google's current and future applications. Unlike the previous years, this year's meeting was entitled I/O a... |
29 May 2008
03:14 GMT |
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There are already several tens of spacecrafts wandering through the solar system, each one a possible carrier of microbes originating on Earth. It's no secret that some life forms on Earth are extremely resilient to space radiation and may possibly reach other planets and their moons to colonize them. In the cas... |
24 May 2008
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Only two and a half years ago, if you had claimed to have seen a flash of light on the surface of the Moon, you would have been quickly catalogued as a lunatic. I guess NASA has a lot of lunatics working for it, as it claims that since 2005, it has observed at least 100 flashes of light being produced on the surface ... |
21 May 2008
10:53 GMT |
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Google is extending its support for the Chinese people, using its products to help those who have fallen victims to the 7.8 magnitude earthquake that struck Sichuan. Until now, the death toll of the earthquake disaster has been reported to be 34,073, with another 245,108 injured. News about the disaster has spread al... |
20 May 2008
04:48 GMT |
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The seriousness of global warming has also reached Google's Google Earth application. The downloadable mapping application, which has been designed to offer satellite imagery of Earth, has just received two KLM layers, which can help users better understand how climate change will affect our planet and its peopl... |
19 May 2008
08:09 GMT |
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Google Earth is most probably one of the best products of the Mountain View-based giant. Since its release (under the name of Google Earth) back in 2005, Google has tried to permanently improve its product. Currently, the free software application has reached its 4.3 version, which has a number of interesting new fea... |
14 May 2008
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The universe is expanding. Not only that, but this expansion seems to be accelerating and is now blamed by physicists on a strange form of energy called dark energy. The problem with dark energy, as it is with dark matter, is that we can't seem to find any direct evidence of its existence. What if this cosmic ac... |
13 May 2008
04:39 GMT |
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After last week's update with satellite imagery from the affected areas in Myanmar (Burma), Google Earth has just received a new update. This time, it is something that deals more with the past, but is of equal significance. The new layer has increased the number of available maps in Rumsey Historical Maps to a ... |
13 May 2008
04:13 GMT |
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By now, most of you have noticed the "Support victims" link featured on the Google home page. As we also informed you, Google and other organizations have put a considerable effort in trying to help the victims of Cyclone Nargis. The devastating cyclone, which hit the Myanmar capital last weekend, is said to have tak... |
9 May 2008
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The discovery comes in the outcome of 22 years of continuous observations of the temperature variations of the second biggest planet in the solar system, Saturn, which has been the subject of the longest temperature study ever conducted on an extraterrestrial body. Similar atmospheric temperature oscillations have be... |
8 May 2008
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The news about last weekend's devastation Cyclone Nargis brought upon the state of Myanmar has rapidly spread all over the world. As it usually happens in such cases, an important number of charity actions are taking place worldwide in order to come to the aid of the victims of the devastating Nargis. Among them... |
7 May 2008
03:25 GMT |
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It is widely believed even today that most of the water on our planet along with other 'iron-loving' elements were brought to Earth during the last couple of hundred million years by asteroids, meteorites, comets and other such objects passing through the inner regions of the solar system. FSU's Depart... |
5 May 2008
10:27 GMT |
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The previous model regarding Earth's interior put things very simply. The Earth is made up of several distinct layers sitting on top of each other. The first and outermost layer is the crust, spanning over 25 kilometers towards the center of the planet. Next comes the mantle, a thick, dense layer of silicate roc... |
5 May 2008
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The last big impact experienced by Earth occurred 65-million-year ago in Chicxulub, the Yucatan peninsula (southeastern Mexico) and doomed the world of the dinosaurs. If a similar asteroid would shock again with our planet, our very existence would be menaced. Smaller asteroids frequently hit Earth. For instance, the... |
30 April 2008
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It may seem strange to some of us but, in fact, it is easier to identify a planet as having the characteristics of our own than actually finding a planet with a size comparable to Earth. For example, there are currently about 270 known exo-planets, of which only a handful have rocky surfaces. By studying light scatte... |
26 April 2008
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Scientists looking for life in space make complicated calculations of where life could exist in the Universe and on which of the many planets, satellites and other space bodies. Then they come up with snore-inducing studies about carbon compositions, water presence, ideal temperatures, and light exposures. But the pe... |
23 April 2008
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It is widely believed that the Earth and the Moon, the way we know them today, could have been created during an impact between a planet roughly the size of Mars and the 'original' Earth. The collision between the two bodies completely destroyed them both, however gravity eventually pulled the cloud of debr... |
21 April 2008
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DAMA, or the Dark Matter collaboration, has just finished its four-year second phase of its experiments and claims to have strong evidence of observing dark matter particles. The same Italian and Chinese collaboration claimed to have had clear evidence of dark matter existence ever since 2003, although other physicis... |
17 April 2008
11:10 GMT |
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Ten years ago, researchers discovered that Earth gives off a constant humming sound, basically imperceptible to the human ear which cannot hear sounds with a frequency below 16 Hertz, and called it the Earth's hum. The sound continues to make itself heard to seismometers even when there is no seismic activity in... |
17 April 2008
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For a long time we have been asking ourselves whether we are alone in the universe. The truth is that we still do not know the answer to this question, however there is a high probability that there are other life forms besides those on Earth. After all, for all we know the universe may be infinite in space-time. Nev... |
17 April 2008
04:18 GMT |
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Two days ago, Google launched Google Earth 4.3, one of the most expected editions of the downloadable mapping tool, mostly because it includes multiple important updates such as Street View. As I'm sure you know, Street View was previously integrated into Google Maps, the web-based version of Google Earth which ... |
17 April 2008
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Today, the Mountain View-based company Google has rolled out what seems to be one of the most important releases of Google Earth, namely the 4.3 version. Although it shouldn't be regarded as a major update (Google Earth 5 should, though), this new edition comes with multiple important improvements.As mentioned e... |
16 April 2008
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We do not know if Superman will be around to save the situation, but by 2037, a megaquake could strike California. A new three-year analysis made by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC), and California Geological Survey shows the existence of a 99.7% chance that a quake with... |
16 April 2008
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As expected, the Mountain View company has out the new version of Google Earth yesterday, namely the 4.3 edition, which was supposed to come with several new improvements. One of the most important additions is surely Street View, a function that was first implemented into Google Maps and that allows users to view st... |
16 April 2008
03:20 GMT |
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The centrifugal force generated by the spin of our planet would push us to the space if another force, gravity, would lack. Because the Earth is spherical, the interaction of the both forces varies as we move further away along the terrestrial ax. The centrifugal force is minimal in the polar areas and maximal on the... |
15 April 2008
10:49 GMT |
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The Mountain View-based company Google is expected to roll out a new version of Google Earth later today, according to rumors launched by the Google Earth Blog. At this time, there's no download link available and the old download page gets you to the old 4.2.205.5730 version released back in November 2007. Howe... |
15 April 2008
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There is a storm on Jupiter that has been raging across its atmosphere for the last three centuries or so. We call it the Great Red Spot, however our understanding of what has powered it for such a long time is limited, although it bears a small resemblance to the hurricanes that occur on our planet from time to time... |
11 April 2008
04:21 GMT |
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The length of a day is not affected only by tides and winds. Underground forces are prolonging our days by milliseconds, as revealed by a new research published in the journal "Science." Phenomena from the mineral layer at the core-mantle boundary, 1,615 mi (2,600 km) deep, appear to impact the Earth's spinning ... |
8 April 2008
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A new rumor brings Google Earth and the long commented Google Maps function, Street View, in the spotlights: the Mountain View company plans to integrate Street View into the downloadable map application which means users will be able to enjoy street-level panoramas straight from their desktop. The speculation was ro... |
7 April 2008
08:25 GMT |
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Last week, Google announced that a new imagery collection was integrated into Google Earth but, as usual, it didn't provide the name of the updated locations. However, it published a few hints supposed to help Google Earth fans discover the updated areas, but the new pack of photos was actually bigger than anyon... |
7 April 2008
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During the span of the Royal Astronomical Society's National Astronomy Meeting that took place last week in Belfast, astronomers revealed the latest results of their studies. One of the scientists present there, Martin Dominik from the St Andrews University, pointed out that he and his team discovered a distant ... |
7 April 2008
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Google Earth may receive another regional ban after the Singapore authorities revealed that Google's downloadable mapping application infringes the Singapore Land Authority copyright. The report was published by SinGeo on April 1st so we're not sure if this is only an April Fool's Day prank or real new... |
2 April 2008
03:31 GMT |
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Google Earth, the downloadable mapping application provided by the Mountain View company, is now providing even more high-resolution photos as the parent firm updated several locations around the world. Although the news came on April Fool's Day, the reports are not fakes as the new high-quality imagery is now a... |
2 April 2008
02:17 GMT |
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If the temperature and the pressure of the air in the Earth's atmosphere would be uniformly distributed on the surface of the planet, there would be no movement of the air. However, the reality is somehow different. The excessive heating of some areas on the surface leads to an uneven distribution of the tempera... |
31 March 2008
07:38 GMT |
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Back here on Earth, we may experience some dangerous storms from time to time; however, they are nothing compared to the storms taking place on gas giants such as Saturn or Jupiter. These storms apparently never stop and are so big that the whole Earth would fit inside of them. Saturn's storm, for example, has a... |
28 March 2008
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The Mountain View-based company, Google, is now encountering new problems regarding the imagery provided by Google Earth, as the Chinese authorities seem to be ready to ban lots of mapping services including Google's. What's interesting is that the Chinese officials labeled these solutions as 'illegal&... |
28 March 2008
04:08 GMT |
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In small amounts ice is a solid, brittle, crystalline material. But in ticker layers, of 60-100 m (200-330 ft), the part situated underneath behaves like a plastic material, engaged in a slow flow, so that the whole ice mass spreads over an extended area or displace on slopes. That's why a glacier behaves like a... |
27 March 2008
17:51 GMT |
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Google Earth captures a lot of interesting moments, no matter if we're talking about meteorite craters or sensitive information which should be hidden from our eyes. JosieNorden, member of the Google Earth Community forums, has created quite a remarkable collection of pictures showing couples and lovers appearin... |
27 March 2008
04:39 GMT |
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According to researchers from the Oxford and Aberdeen universities, about 1.2 billion years ago, a relatively large object entered Earth's atmosphere and fell towards the regions of north-west Scotland, to create the biggest meteorite impact on the territories of the United Kingdom. The exact location of the cra... |
26 March 2008
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The model of planet formation in our solar system is currently very simple and easy to understand. All planets formed from the same materials inside the matter disk spinning around the Sun, thus spawning four most inner rocky planets and four gas giants. The raw material for the four inner planets is believed to have... |
20 March 2008
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There is an enormous number of objects remnant from previous missions currently orbiting Earth, most of which have the potential of seriously damaging spacecrafts intersecting their trajectories. Only last year, the destruction of China's Fengyun-1C satellite left behind about 150,000 individual objects less tha... |
19 March 2008
11:05 GMT |
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