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New Version of “Eyes on the Earth” Released for the Public

Boasting a sleek and simplified interface, as well as a new version of the popular “Eyes on the Earth” interactive virtual reality visualization, the NASA Global Climate Change website looks better than ever. The page can be accessed here, or directly here. The page has already won the Webby Award, a fe...

23 March 2012
06:29 GMT

NASA Launches 'Eyes on the Solar System'

Officials with the American space agency recently announced the launch of a new website, which they said is dedicated to exploring the solar system in a virtual environment. Users will be treated to a panoply of images and animations that will bring neighboring celestial bodies closer than ever before.This interactiv...

5 September 2011
03:14 GMT

Climate Data Made Available in Online Tool

Researchers from the University of California in Berkeley (UCB) have recently put up a new public website, which can be used to access a host of data related to global warming and climate change.The online tool - which can be accessed here - also provides forecasts into how Earth's climate will look like in the ...

8 June 2011
02:58 GMT

14 Useful Websites for Students by Microsoft At Home

Microsoft likes young inventive people, than can learn lots of things and maybe one day change the world, so it has quite a bond with the students community.The company does many things to help and encourage students, from organizing events to providing big discounts on its products, giving away tons of free software...

21 September 2010
10:43 GMT

NASA Launches New Site Against Climate Change

For a long time, experts trying to raise awareness on the whole issue of global warming and climate change have failed to explain to children why it's important to save the planet. Reducing the most complex natural phenomena and interconnections down to a simple level, where most kids can make sense of them, is ...

29 January 2010
01:53 GMT

Website Allows People to Analyze 'Galactic Cannibalism'

One of the biggest unanswered questions regarding the Universe today is why there are two types of galaxies, one that has trailing spiral arms, such as our own Milky Way, and one that looks more like a compact ball of stars, known as a barrel galaxy. Astronomers have struggled with this question for a long time, and ...

24 November 2009
16:01 GMT

80 Percent of UK Parents Baffled by Basic Science Questions

According to a new statistical study, it would appear that about four in five British parents cannot answer basic scientific questions that their children ask, such as “What makes a rainbow?” or “Why is the sky blue?” Moreover, one in five parents seem to believe that their children know more ...

13 August 2009
03:44 GMT

Half of US Doctors Turn to Wikipedia for Help

Over the years, as more and more homes started getting access to computers and the Internet, a shift was recorded in the classical sources people turned to in order to get their medical information. Rather than visiting the doctor's office, many people now prefer browsing for a response to their questions online...

29 July 2009
16:51 GMT

Internet Piracy Is What Makes Artists Popular

According to a new set of studies, it would appear that artists, musicians and movie stars, who are currently engaged in impressive legal battles with peer-to-peer (P2P) sharing websites, actually owe most of their popularity to these sites. Teenagers who share music and films with each other, even if they do so by i...

14 May 2009
09:30 GMT

Scientists to Determine if Beauty Is in the Eye of the Beholder

Scientists at the University of Manchester seem to have their own personal way of answering the question “Is beauty in the eyes of the beholder?” They have recently announced their intentions to turn one of London's largest art galleries into a scientific laboratory, in which they will try to determi...

1 April 2009
08:29 GMT

Cold War-Era Crime Becomes Online Puzzle

A couple found dead in a car and no apparent cause of death are the main “headlines” of a new website, set up as part of her doctoral project by Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology professor Rebecca Young. This isn't just any killing, but one rooted in mystery and dating back from the Cold War. I...

19 March 2009
16:01 GMT

Website Designs Affect Children's Information Processing

In a new scientific study, researchers noticed that young children are heavily influenced by the layout of the Internet page they are visiting. Namely, the way in which the content of the site is structured exerts a heavy influence on the small ones' ability to process and later recall the information they see. ...

15 January 2009
09:36 GMT

All You Wanted To Know About Site Vulnerabilities

Ever wanted to know what vulnerabilities sites have? What can be exploited and how efficient it will be? Well, WhiteHat Security has released a security statistics report on their website for everyone to see. It's pretty insightful and if you are just a little bit tech-savvy I don't think you'll have a...

11 October 2007
06:11 GMT

Your Favorite Website Could Get You Infected!

Yeah, that's right! Your favorite website! Whatever that might bea blog, some forum, a gallery it can get you infected with a nasty virus. It's not that all the web designers out there are trying to get people's machines tainted with viruses, no, don't even think that! It's something else -...

4 October 2007
05:12 GMT


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