Flights will become bumpier as global warming destabilises air currents at altitudes used by commercial airliners, climate scientists warned Monday.
Apr 08, 2013
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(Phys.org)—This image shows an object known as HH 151, a bright jet of glowing material trailed by an intricate, orange-hued plume of gas and dust. It is located some 460 light-years away in the constellation ...
Feb 26, 2013
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Depletion of Antarctic ozone is a more important factor than increasing greenhouse gases in shifting the Southern Hemisphere jet stream in a southward direction, according to researchers at Penn State.
Jan 31, 2013
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Ok, are you ready for this? I know... WOW.
Nov 28, 2012
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What lives at the edge of space? Other than high-flying jet aircraft pilots (and the occasional daredevil skydiver) you wouldn't expect to find many living things over 10 kilometers up—yet this is exactly whe ...
Nov 16, 2012
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(Phys.org)—A biological mystery about the longer lifespans of bigger creatures may be explained by the application of a physical law called the Constructal Law.
Aug 24, 2012
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(Phys.org) -- In the quest to understand how the world's weather moves around the globe, scientists have had to tease apart different kinds of atmospheric movement, such as the great jet streams that can ...
Aug 16, 2012
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Turbulent jet streams, regions where winds blow faster than in other places, churn east and west across Saturn. Scientists have been trying to understand for years the mechanism that drives these wavy structures ...
Jun 25, 2012
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Magnetic instabilities play a crucial role in the emergence of black holes and other cosmic phenomena. At the Helmholtz- Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, confirmation of such a magnetic instability - the Tayler ...
Jun 20, 2012
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Milky white chemical clouds were briefly visible in much of the night sky along the Eastern seaboard on Tuesday after NASA launched a series of rockets to study the jet stream at the edge of the earth's atmosphere.
Mar 27, 2012
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(AP) -- The launch of five suborbital rockets from Virginia's coast is being rescheduled again.
Mar 23, 2012
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(AP) -- NASA is again rescheduling the launch of five rockets from Virginia due to bad weather.
Mar 22, 2012
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA has rescheduled the launch of five suborbital sounding rockets from the Wallops Facility in Virginia as part of a study of the upper level jet stream to no earlier than Tuesday night, March 20.
Mar 19, 2012
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(PhysOrg.com) -- New movies of Jupiter are the first to catch an invisible wave shaking up one of the giant planet's jet streams, an interaction that also takes place in Earth's atmosphere and influences the ...
Mar 13, 2012
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NASA is scheduled to launch five suborbital sounding rockets in just over five minutes March 15 from the Wallops Facility in Virginia as part of a study of the upper level jet stream.
Mar 13, 2012
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