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California's Death Valley is a fairly harsh place when it comes to deserts, with temperatures regularly reaching 50 degrees Celsius (122 degrees Fahrenheit) during the day. At night, it gets so cold, that ice can form. In this rather inhospitable place, tourists and scientists have discovered one of the most unu... |
19 November 2009
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A group of scientists has recently taken a new, high-resolution set of readouts on the human brain, collected directly from the cortex via wires implanted in the brain. The initiative has provided the scientists with an unprecedented look at how language processing functions, and has also evidenced the fact that part... |
16 October 2009
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Since the Cassini spacecraft sent back images showing the freezing moon Enceladus, around Saturn, spewing out vapors of water, the international astronomical community has entered a frenzy, and also a heated scientific debate. Some scientists argue that the observations prove there is an ocean of liquid water under t... |
13 October 2009
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NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) is the most active probe sent to the Red Planet to date. Up until now, it has sent back the most pieces of information on the planet of all missions, and continues to do so at a steady rate, in spite of occasional glitches and reboots. Recently, with the help of one of it... |
24 September 2009
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The final form of predicted ice has been successfully obtained in the laboratory. After years of research, scientists at the University of Oxford, in England, managed to create ice XV, a never-before-reached form of ice, with a special form of molecular layout. Thus far, 16 new types of the stuff have been discovered... |
14 September 2009
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Drilling up core samples is one of the most potent instruments that science has of analyzing the planet's past in terms of geological changes that took place over the years. In spite of their massive price tags – at times reaching several millions of dollars per sample – they are still widely used fo... |
12 August 2009
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Saturn's moon Enceladus is, in many aspects, one of the most peculiar celestial bodies in the solar system. Once regarded as nothing more than a ball of frozen ice and dust, it revealed itself in 2006 to be still active, and potentially even harboring liquid water underneath the surface. Additionally, its weird ... |
21 July 2009
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Whenever people think of the Red Planet, what usually jumps to mind are the arid, barren and sandy landscapes that have been widely circulated over the years in NASA images. But the reality of the Martian surface is a bit different than widely believed, a fact that was evidenced by the last readings sent back by the ... |
3 July 2009
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The Cassini-Huygens space probe is arguably one of the most important missions NASA ever sent out into the solar system, in terms of return benefits and information accuracy. The craft has thus far managed to discover new moons around Saturn, and to offer invaluable scientific data on interesting natural satellites s... |
25 June 2009
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Experts have known for a very long time that water is a very peculiar liquid. Its anomalies allow for it to move in nature the way it does, and also to allow a host of other biological processes, including the little thing called life, take place. Its properties are still puzzling to physicists and chemists, as they ... |
24 June 2009
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Morning sickness is among the many ailments that can turn a pregnancy into a genuine nightmare, as many women who have lived through it can surely testify. In some cases, morning sickness can even threaten the health of both mother and child, when it develops into something known as hyperemesis gravidarum. Because sh... |
19 June 2009
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The scientific theory that holds that bacteria in clouds may be, to some extent, responsible for rain formation has drawn immense criticism from the scientific community when it first appeared, a good 25 years ago. Ever since, a small number of researchers have continued their investigations into this belief, and the... |
15 June 2009
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In their search for life on other planets, researchers are always hindered by a single fact – they don't know what life in other planetary conditions than those of the Earth may look like. Different pressure and atmospheric surroundings may affect the development of even the most basic forms of life on exo... |
15 June 2009
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Scientists are currently working on two fronts to discover a way of producing vast amounts of non-polluting electricity from special kinds of ice, which are readily available in many parts of the world. If the experts identify the correct types of the stuff, then they could literally burn it, to release the methane t... |
27 March 2009
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As most of us have already found out the hard way, working out also implies a lot of pain, especially after the first sessions, when the effort is still too much for our body, which may take a little time to get used to. However, working out comes with even more pain in the case of a strain or a pulled muscle, which ... |
23 March 2009
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Experts from all around the world are about to embark on one of the most significant scientific endeavors of the past years – they are going to search for existing life in an underground Antarctic lake, which has been sealed by more than 3 kilometers of ice millions of years ago. If the scientists, led by UK re... |
3 March 2009
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We now know for a fact that liquid water once existed on Mars and that it's now gone in almost all regions of the planet. Ice still exists in the polar areas, where massive sheets, up to 95 percent pure, can still be found under a thin layer of dust and rock sediments. But the Martian atmosphere is altogether to... |
3 March 2009
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Over the past decade, evidence of water on Mars has amounted to impressive quantities, especially after a constant flow of readings was achieved from the various probes and observers NASA currently has on or around the Red Planet. Astronomers have managed to determine for sure that the Martian northern and southern p... |
10 February 2009
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Sony Ericsson's new partner, the Taiwan-based Mobinnova, which has been reported to be producing the next version of XPERIA, has recently announced its new smartphone, dubbed Mobinnova ICE. The new Windows Mobile handset is said to be working under GSM, WCDMA and HSDPA networks, and also to come with two innovat... |
29 December 2008
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The thought of a cold ocean covered by an extremely thick crust of ice (some scientific theories even estimate it to measure over 100 km in thickness) doesn't really do much for the idea of the moon's supporting even the most elementary forms of life. But a new study suggests that the premises of this theor... |
11 December 2008
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At some point, 5 billion years from now, the Sun will begin to swell and will slowly engulf the first planets in its vicinity, including our own. But life would have been obliterated long before this process actually occurred. Still, this is not necessarily a scary scenario, since while scorching our planet, the Sun ... |
11 December 2008
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A massive project involving the building process of the world's greatest neutrino telescope is currently under development far to the southern pole, in Antarctica. A bold group of experts from the University of Delaware are facing the blistering cold deep underneath the snowy surface in an attempt to have the de... |
10 December 2008
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It seems that the European Space Agency has made a habit out of having its satellites fly in formation, as a result of a successful similar campaign which took place in 2007. This year’s initiative will involve the two satellites from the previous operation, the ERS-2 and the Envisat. Their moving together... |
10 December 2008
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A new NASA/ESA mission has been approved in order to investigate the Jupiterian moons of Europa and Ganymede, as well as low-scale analyses of other two moons of the giant planet, Io and Callisto. The mission, called the Europa-Jupiter System Mission (EJSM) will consist of two orbiters, one developed by NASA that wil... |
28 November 2008
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The number of scientific devices studying the red planet is continuously on the rise. This adds to the constant discovery of unusual features sported by Mars, eventually providing more insight on its formation, evolution and structure. More recent images captured by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)'s High R... |
26 November 2008
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A group of 100 to 200 narwhals were caught between the ices in the Arctic region of Pond Inlet, Nunavut, as they became separated from the main sea last week, Canadian officials announced. The whales face a slow death, as they will be surrounded and eventually overwhelmed by the ice sheets. Hunters have already began... |
22 November 2008
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The mild slopes on the mid-latitudes of Mars were first spotted by the Viking orbiters during the '70s and their composition has eluded the scientific world so far, given the differences in aspect when compared to the surrounding similar features. But recent observations by NASA's Mars Reconnaissa... |
21 November 2008
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The Environmentally Non-Disturbing Under-ice Robotic ANtarctiC Explorer (ENDURANCE) is a submarine device financed by NASA and designed by William Stone, the president of Stone Aerospace Corporation in Austin, Texas. It is conceived in order to explore otherwise unreachable, tremendously cold waters under thick layer... |
13 November 2008
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It seems that for the Phoenix Lander, the spacecraft many have come to be attached to, the end is indeed nigh. Technicians lost contact with the craft on November 2nd, but hoped to be able to resume communication with the lander. But it appears that this is no longer possible, since the Sun does not provide enough en... |
11 November 2008
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While going through the large amount of pictures taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter HiRISE high resolution camera, a group of experts from the University of Berne, Switzerland, led by Patrick Russell have come across a series of photos showing a phenomenon strikingly resembling one happening on Earth. By the no... |
10 November 2008
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At times, those who are lucky enough can stand in awe at the spectacular beauty of a fire rainbow, which makes the sky look like it is aflame. Going by the scientific name of circumhorizontal arc or circumhorizon arc (CHA), nature surely throws in a lot of effort for one of these rainbows to occur. Basically, it is ... |
29 October 2008
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Junichi Haruyama and his team from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency have analyzed the data sent back by the KAGUYA (“SELENE”) explorer satellite currently orbiting the Moon. The photos of a lunar crater found on the side permanently shrouded in darkness have shed some light – unfortunately, o... |
27 October 2008
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NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has captured amazing new images that show an odd feature on the northern pole of the planet. It seems to be an impact crater, which was revealed as the terrain in the region slowly eroded.The characteristics of the red planet all indicate evidence of a violent past, like the fa... |
17 October 2008
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Following the resounding success of the Mars Phoenix Lander's mission, its three main project leaders were invited to New York's Popular Mechanics' Breakthrough conference in order to shed more light on the gathered data and on what future similar missions may expect to discover.The mission of NASA... |
17 October 2008
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By analyzing the red planet's clouds, Phoenix Mars Lander has found that there's snow falling from them. The data collected from the soil samples gathered by the craft showed that there is an obvious interaction between water in liquid form and minerals, just like on Earth.The laser device that is specially... |
30 September 2008
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It is clear that once there was plenty of water on Mars. The recent findings of NASA's Phoenix Lander indicated that currently, the red planet is pretty much covered by an underground layer of water ice (non-carbonic). However, it remains to be seen exactly to what extent the Martian ice spreads. But what form d... |
27 September 2008
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Arctic ice is at a second lowest level this year, further limiting the natural habitat of the polar bears, which hugely affects their behavior as they are now prone to drowning and starving. As we've recently shown, Arctic ice levels are in a constant free fall, as according to Walt Meier, a research scien... |
24 September 2008
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At the Photokina fair in Cologne (Germany), Microsoft will unveil the latest photographic tool to come out its research laboratories. Microsoft Image Composite Editor is designed as an panoramic image stitcher and is already available as a free download. Microsoft Research's Matt Uyttendaele referred to the tool... |
23 September 2008
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Sodium acetate trihydrate crystals dissolved in hot water and cooled off stay liquid until the solidification process is triggered with one's finger. The exothermic ice thus obtained emanates heat. I bet that when winter comes and you go ice skating, upon warming up your frozen fingers many of you think "W... |
18 September 2008
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More than two months after NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander touched down on the north polar plains of the Red Planet, the pile of circumstantial evidence pointing towards the presence of water was put aside and replaced with the first clear analysis showing that water indeed exists on Mars. In a report published yeste... |
1 August 2008
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Laboratory tests carried out on Earth showed that the Phoenix Mars Lander needs to expose more of the ice bellow the dusty layer on the surface of the planet if researchers want to collect a proper sample for analysis. As a result, the robotic arm of the spacecraft was instructed on Monday to extend an already dug up... |
16 July 2008
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It's ironic how the biggest nightmare of ice cream companies around the world is in fact ice. To prevent the formation of large ice crystals, most of them resort to adding edible antifreeze to the cream mix, thus keeping the texture of the ice cream smooth and silky no matter how many times it has been refrozen.... |
8 July 2008
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NASA confirmed that the robotic arm of the Phoenix Mars Lander delivered its second sample for analysis to the wet chemistry laboratory of the spacecraft. While the first sample test of the lander failed to detect any chemicals that may be essential to the appearance and evolution of life as we know it on the Red Pla... |
8 July 2008
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The news regarding climate change has recently gone from bad to the very worst. By predicting the weather and ocean conditions in the following months researchers discovered that there is a relatively good chance than at the end of this summer there will be little or no ice left at the North Pole. The probability of ... |
1 July 2008
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On Saturday, NASA and University of Arizona mission controllers revealed an image taken with the camera on Phoenix's robotic arm showing a white patch of soil under the lander, which the team members believe to be water ice. The patch is about one meter in diameter, seems to be bright white and is surrounded by ... |
2 June 2008
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The robotic arm of the Phoenix Mars Lander was used yesterday along with the camera attached to it to view the ground beneath the spacecraft and make certain that the soil is clear of any big rocks. The arm has also touched the ground of the landing area for the first time while one of the instruments carried on boar... |
31 May 2008
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Amongst some of the first images sent back by the Phoenix Mars Lander in the outcome of its landing on the surface of Mars on the evening of last Sunday lies this particular one, showing the now famous polygon patterns characteristic to the north polar plains of the Red Planet. In a previous article I wrote that NASA... |
27 May 2008
09:41 GMT |
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The Phoenix Mars Lander has now more than 24 hours on the Red Planet and it is still undergoing preparations for expected digging missions, which it will need to complete in the following months. As soon as it set foot on Martian soil, Phoenix went right to work and in approximately two hours after the landing it sen... |
27 May 2008
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Phoenix's nine month journey to the Red Planet is set to end tomorrow, May 25, with its landing in the north polar regions of Mars. Whether or not it manages to land remains uncertain until the spacecraft is safely on the ground, especially considering the relatively long list of failed missions to the Red Plane... |
24 May 2008
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With summer already here, all of us need a little practice in the "frozen delights" department. And it's not just funny and tasty treats for kids that I'm talking about - we all need to cool off from time to time and why not do it in a way that's both tasty and funny? Well, then, let's get to work... |
23 May 2008
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