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Students Help NASA Crash Satellite On Purpose
Tue, 07 Sep 2010 15:15:34 -0700
When a NASA satellite met its doom in a fiery blaze in Earth's atmosphere after a seven-year mission, a bunch of college students were at the controls.
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Science Research Cuts Will Ruin Us All [Rant]
Tue, 07 Sep 2010 11:54:54 -0700
# rant The Western World keeps cutting its science research budget because of the economic crisis. As China rises—funneling tons of money into science—our obtuse politicians don't realize that, without pure research, they are sentencing us to irrelevance and oblivion. More »
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NASA satellite data aid United Nations' ability to detect global fire hotspots
Wed, 08 Sep 2010 13:47:19 -0700
( NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center ) In the midst of a difficult fire season in many parts of the world, the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization has launched a new online fire detection system that will help firefighters and natural hazards managers improve response time and resource management.
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U of C scientist offers better ways to engineer Earth's climate to prevent dangerous global warming
Tue, 07 Sep 2010 06:56:35 -0700
( University of Calgary ) Dr. David Keith suggests that two novel geoengineering approaches -- "levitating" engineered nano-particles, and the airborne release of sulphuric acid may be more effective than simply putting sulphur dioxide gas into the atmosphere.His results have been published in both the upcoming Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a top-ranked international science ...
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Tractor beams come to life
Wed, 08 Sep 2010 06:39:36 -0700
Tractor beams, energy rays that can move objects, are a science fiction mainstay. But now they are becoming a reality -- at least for moving very tiny objects.
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Students help NASA crash satellite
Tue, 07 Sep 2010 16:14:43 -0700
When a NASA satellite met its doom in a fiery blaze in Earth's atmosphere after a seven-year mission, a bunch of college students were at the controls. NASA - Space - Satellite - Atmosphere of Earth - Technology
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What lies beneath
Wed, 08 Sep 2010 10:10:40 -0700
Studies link deforestation to geology and agricultural demand
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Subseafloor Observatories Installed To Run Dynamic Experiments
Wed, 08 Sep 2010 07:11:36 -0700
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