Winter was until recently the traditional season when up to 90 percent of bird species in the Arctic migrated South, to warmer skies. But that seems to no longer apply today. An investigation by the US Geological Service (USGS) has recently determined that as much as 30 percent of species would now rather spend their... |
17 September 2009
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Spending nine months and five days in the deep sea seems like something even a top-class submarine would find difficult to accomplish without maintenance work. But this proved to be a walk in the park for a University of Washington Seaglider, which spent this entire time on a single mission, roaming the Pacific Ocean... |
16 September 2009
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Astronomers have known for centuries that the Sun operates in 11-year cycles, periods of intense or less intense activity, in which variable amounts of radiations, solar flares and sunspots are produced. Now, physicists also know that these variations only change the amount of energy that our planet receives by as li... |
28 August 2009
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The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) satellite, GOES-11, launched in 2000, has recently beamed back images detailing fizzling tropical cyclone formation in the eastern parts of the Pacific Ocean, the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center reports. The data collected from the eye-in-the-sky a... |
14 August 2009
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Though our ears are too insensitive to perceive it, the planet is constantly generating a low-frequency humming noise, which was first discovered with instruments in 1998. At a frequency of around 10 millihertz, the sound is far outside our hearing range, as we can only perceive sounds as low as 20 hertz. Now, scient... |
10 August 2009
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According to a new scientific study, conducted by researchers at the University of Utah, and published in the August 6th issue of the respected scientific journal Nature, the new and young New Zealand tectonic plate is slowly reaching maturity, benefiting from an unexpected source of help – water deposits locat... |
6 August 2009
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According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS) website, a 6.9-magnitude earthquake occurred on August 3rd at 17:59:56 UTC (01:59:56 pm EDT, 06:59:56 GMT) in California. Located by a precise measurement program as taking place at a depth of ten kilometers (6.2 miles), the tremor's wide effects are still ... |
4 August 2009
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NEPTUNE Canada, a University of Victoria-led initiative, will be the largest cable oceanic observatory ring in the world. Scheduled to be completed in a few months, the construct will allow for gathering oceanic data straight from the source over the next quarter of a century, its creators say. The structure is locat... |
9 July 2009
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El Nino and La Nina are two atmospheric phenomena in the tropical Eastern Pacific Ocean and represent global atmosphere-ocean connections. They occur periodically, and cause significant temperature fluctuations in the oceanic waters. Recently, meteorologists estimated that El Nino could begin its development the next... |
5 June 2009
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