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Cold seasons are the best time of the year for winter sports fans. However, people who hate snow, decreased temperatures and the prolonged absence of sunlight are often exposed to what doctors call seasonal affective disorder. It stops them from enjoying their free time and it also makes them gain weight and feel tir... |
9 January 2012
04:46 GMT |
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Large portions of the United States and Eastern Europe are currently experiencing warmer-than-normal conditions, with reduced snowfall. Scientists say that this is due to the fact that the Arctic Oscillation is currently positive, as opposed to the last two years, when its values were negative.
The AO is an index t... |
6 January 2012
03:15 GMT |
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Depending on your religious orientation, you’re almost sure to celebrate something in the next few weeks, even if it’s just the New Year. Unfortunately, while this should be a time of peace on Earth and getting together with your family, friends or relatives, it’s quite a difficult time to be a game... |
24 December 2011
09:31 GMT |
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Apple is reminding developers that iTunes Connect will be inaccessible over the winter holidays, namely between Dec. 22 and Dec 29. The Mac maker advises them to submit any pending updates ASAP, otherwise they will have to wait until Dec. 30, or next year.
A fresh post on the section dedicated to News and Announceme... |
21 December 2011
07:11 GMT |
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A British company wants to innovative the fabrics we rely on to keep our bodies warm during winter. The Toll is planning to redefine the position of the alpaca wool, by turning it into a much more sustainable fabric, purchased and used in manufacturing processes on a larger scale. While the entire fashion industry ... |
24 November 2011
08:39 GMT |
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The NASA Mars Exploration Rover (MER) Opportunity is currently heading closer to the rim of the Endeavour Crater, on the surface of the Red Planet. After studying the chemical composition of two rocks near the massive crater, the machine is now looking forward to its next winter.Unlike its twin, Spirit, this explorat... |
17 October 2011
02:45 GMT |
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A Norwegian woman using her iPhone in sub-zero conditions allegedly picked up the handset to find that it had exploded in the cold.As reported by the Swedish blog ‘Feber’ citing di.se, the Norwegian woman was using her iPhone 4 in her car at the time.She was reportedly playing music when, all of the sudde... |
14 January 2011
06:44 GMT |
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Microsoft is offering fresh collections of personalization content celebrating the winter season to Windows 7 users via the Windows Personalization Gallery. With the latest additions to the gallery, customers running Windows 7 can now download and enjoy no less than three theme packs that are celebrating winter and ... |
17 December 2010
11:00 GMT |
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If you love high heels but simply can’t wear them now because it would mean certain death (figuratively) on icy pavements, WinterTrax may be the solution. This little invention makes almost all shoes snow-proof. As the Daily Mail also points out, one of the trendiest and most popular shoe this winter remains th... |
3 December 2010
16:31 GMT |
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Researchers at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, California, have just released the latest report on Spirit's condition on Mars. According to the scientists, who manage the mission for the space agency's Science Mission Directorate, in Washington, DC, the Mars Exploration Rover (MER) co... |
30 July 2010
09:09 GMT |
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Officials at the American space agency announce that the Martian rover Spirit is currently being chilled to increasingly lower temperatures, as the winter season on the Red Planet approaches the machine's location. The latest communications attempt with it revealed that the robot is still operational, although i... |
20 March 2010
03:46 GMT |
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Given the excessively cold winter we just experienced, the road infrastructure in many countries has been severely affected. Large amounts of precipitations, and of snow melting, have caused more than 1.6 million potholes to appear on streets in the United Kingdom alone. Authorities are currently facing the possibili... |
24 February 2010
06:01 GMT |
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Recently, officials at NASA announced that they would no longer attempt to extract the rover Spirit from Troy, and that they would turn it into a static scientific platform. The robot has been trapped in a loose patch of soil on Mars since April, 2009, and all drives aimed at dislodging it from the area have failed. ... |
12 February 2010
05:41 GMT |
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As most of you already know, the 2009 winter will officially begin two days from now, on Monday, December 21. The date will mark the winter solstice, the astronomical point in time when the shortest day of the year will take place. From that point on, winter is ongoing, even though this year it came a little bit earl... |
19 December 2009
07:24 GMT |
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The Phoenix Mars Lander was arguably one of the most successful NASA missions to Mars, and not necessarily in terms of endurance, but when considering the scale of its discovery. Born out of a previous lander's failure, the robot managed to successfully land on the Red Planet in search of water-ice and touch dow... |
17 December 2009
03:47 GMT |
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This Saturday, November 21, the Cassini spacecraft will perform its last flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus, before the planet enters its winter season. Once that happens, darkness will blanket the moon for several years, and its doubtful that the space probe, already in its mission-extension period, will last unt... |
20 November 2009
05:58 GMT |
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In a lot of branches of the entertainment industry there was one guaranteed time frame that offered great sales for high-end productions: the winter holiday one. As such, even big video game publishers were aiming for said time period in order to release their high-end franchises. But during the recent weeks, we... |
28 July 2009
13:11 GMT |
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Every woman out there must know that cold weather and healthy, great looking skin are two elements that never do well together. Cream commercials and beauty magazines keep repeating that to us every winter but, somehow, the problem never seems to actually go away. This happens, dermatologists say, because we’re... |
17 February 2009
13:31 GMT |
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Christmas is now on our doorstep and it's time we sit back and enjoy the Christmas carols and the decorations as the holiday spirit fills and warms our hearts. Once ''the season to be jolly'' arrives, besides decking the halls, as the beautiful carol goes, we should do something to light up n... |
24 December 2008
03:51 GMT |
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Nature appears to be slowed down by the coming of winter, which might make you think that scientists could also become a little lazy during this season. Well, you couldn't be farther from the truth, as nature keeps spoiling us with scientific treats. It all starts with the weather, which gets much colder. But th... |
4 December 2008
09:26 GMT |
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The attention shifts again from the Arctic ice sheet to Antarctica as the European Space Agency's Envisat satellite showed how over the past month or so, a large ice sheet stretching between the Charcot and Latady Islands in the Antarctic Peninsula, known as the Wilkins Ice Shelf, started to break up again, for ... |
11 July 2008
09:52 GMT |
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If you find it difficult to play on your phone or to call somebody having your gloves on, the Japanese could have solved this problem.Cold climates won't be a problem anymore, with the new concept phone designed by Yuta Watanabe. I guess many had a phone like this in mind, but nobody has actually thought that i... |
20 December 2007
03:36 GMT |
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The Google people in charge with the themes for their iGoogle page must have lived after a different calendar than the rest of us. They showed us short previews of the winter theme, and then they withdrew it, they had galleries that showed us all sorts of things and then they closed them down and there would still be... |
19 December 2007
04:33 GMT |
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Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle all the way/ Oh, what fun it is to have a Spring iGoogle Theme, instead of a winter one this time of year! Um, yes, it might not rhyme, but it's a lot closer to the way my Google holiday mood is getting at. Annoyance at its finest hour. Why, why would you consider launching a w... |
10 December 2007
04:49 GMT |
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If you still do not believe that the Antarctic ice will melt, and your beach house will be flooded, read this: last winter has been the warmest in Europe in over 700 years! A similarly hot winter could have occurred in 1289, as found by a Swiss team led by Jrg Luterbacher at the University of Bern.The earliest European c... |
21 June 2007
06:48 GMT |
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When the days shorten and the sun's power is getting increasingly weaker, animals get restless. They all prepare for winter.Most invertebrates (worms, mollusks, insects, and fishes) pass into a lethargy stage. But before that, they look for a proper shelter. Earth worms dig for deeper galleries in the soil, clam... |
14 March 2007
09:59 GMT |
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