News tagged with airplane travel

Have we reached peak travel?

(PhysOrg.com) -- Since the 1970s, passenger travel by vehicles and airplanes has grown rapidly in industrialized countries, and the International Energy Agency has predicted steady, though slower, travel growth ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Jan 03, 2011 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (8) | comments 8 | with audio podcast report

Traveling by car increases global temperatures more than by plane, but only in long term

Driving a car increases global temperatures in the long run more than making the same long-distance journey by air according to a new study. However, in the short run travelling by air has a larger adverse ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Aug 04, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Paris Hilton not only one confused about swine flu

(AP) -- Paris Hilton says "I don't eat that" when asked about swine flu in an online video. She's not the only one confused about the outbreak.

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created May 01, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 2




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Eclipse crosses Asia, US: Millions look skyward

From a park near Albuquerque, to the top of Japan's Mount Fuji, to the California coast the effect was dramatic: The moon nearly blotting out the sun creating a blazing "ring of fire."

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 21, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 2

Goddard collaborates with international partners on Magnetospheric Multiscale instrument

Whether it's a giant solar flare or a beautiful green-blue aurora, just about everything interesting in space weather happens due to a phenomenon called magnetic reconnection. Reconnection occurs when magnetic ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Lightweight construction on the way to volume production

Carmakers and airplane manufacturers are very particular when it comes to the weight of their models: the lighter they are, the less fuel they consume - and the less carbon dioxide they blow into the air. ...

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 23, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

Physicists continue work to abolish time as fourth dimension of space

(Phys.org) -- Philosophers have debated the nature of time long before Einstein and modern physics. But in the 106 years since Einstein, the prevailing view in physics has been that time serves as the fourth ...

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 14, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (78) | comments 717 | with audio podcast report

Space weather forecast: Sunspotty, with an increasing chance of solar storms

(Phys.org) -- The past few months have seen a spate of solar flares – bringing spectacular views of the northern lights as far south as Seattle – along with media speculation that the electrical ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 12, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Airborne prayers problem solved for tech-savvy Muslims

As a frequent flier and devout Muslim, businessman Abdalhamid Evans always comes up against the same challenge in the air: when to say his prayers.

Technology / Other

created Apr 06, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Cheaper, quieter and fuel-efficient biplanes could put supersonic travel on the horizon

(PhysOrg.com) -- For 27 years, the Concorde provided its passengers with a rare luxury: time saved. For a pricey fare, the sleek supersonic jet ferried its ticketholders from New York to Paris in a mere three-and-a-half ...

Technology / Engineering

created Mar 16, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (13) | comments 13 | with audio podcast

Storms from the sun

(PhysOrg.com) -- Space weather starts at the sun. It begins with an eruption such as a huge burst of light and radiation called a solar flare or a gigantic cloud of solar material called a coronal mass ejection ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 09, 2012 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

O, Pioneers! (Part 1): The motes in God's eye

March 2012 marks the fortieth anniversary of the launch of one of the most extraordinary spacecraft ever constructed - Pioneer 10 - the first true deep space probe. The story of the Voyager spacecraft is well ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 27, 2012 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Cebit 2012: The wireless bicycle brake, a prototype on an exciting mission

A German computer scientist has developed a reliable wireless bicycle brake.

Technology / Engineering

created Feb 24, 2012 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 8


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