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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 Jürg Luterbacher at the University of Bern.The earliest Europ... |
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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