News tagged with mushroom cloud
Mosses use 'mushroom clouds' to spread spores (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists in the US have solved the mystery of how peat mosses manage to get their spores high enough to catch the wind, discovering that they produce vortex rings of air, like miniature ...
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Microsoft vows to go carbon neutral
Microsoft on Tuesday vowed it would be carbon neutral in the fiscal year starting July.
May 08, 2012 |
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Microsoft-Amazon.com pressed for clean 'cloud'
Activists rappelled down a Seattle office building Thursday to get Microsoft and Amazon.com to use clean energy to power datacenters running services based in the Internet "cloud."
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Apr 19, 2012 |
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Amazon, Apple, Twitter score low on clean energy: study
Amazon, Apple and Twitter were graded poorly Tuesday in a Greenpeace study of technology titans' use of clean energy to power the mushrooming Internet cloud, but Facebook, Google and Yahoo! won praise.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Apr 17, 2012 |
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Waiting for Death Valley's Big Bang: A volcanic explosion crater may have future potential
In California's Death Valley, death is looking just a bit closer. Geologists have determined that the half-mile-wide Ubehebe Crater, formed by a prehistoric volcanic explosion, was created far more recently ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 23, 2012 |
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Insects top latest inventory of newly discovered species
More than half of the 19,232 species newly known to science in 2009, the most recent calendar year of compilation, were insects 9,738 or 50.6 percent according to the 2011 State of Observed Species ...
Jan 18, 2012 |
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Research could improve laser-manufacturing technique
(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineers have discovered details about the behavior of ultrafast laser pulses that may lead to new applications in manufacturing, diagnostics and other research.
Dec 19, 2011 |
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Armstrong relives historic Moon landing
It's more than 40 years since Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the Moon, but his memories of the historic flight remain as undimmed as his passion for further exploration of space.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 29, 2011 |
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Fukushima caesium leaks 'equal 168 Hiroshimas'
Japan's government estimates the amount of radioactive caesium-137 released by the Fukushima nuclear disaster so far is equal to that of 168 Hiroshima bombs, a news report said Thursday.
Aug 25, 2011 |
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'Dramatic' solar flare could disrupt Earth communications (Update)
An unusual solar flare observed by a NASA space observatory (video) on Tuesday could cause some disruptions to satellite communications and power on Earth over the next day or so, officials said. ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 07, 2011 |
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NASA sees the sun having a solar blast (w/ video)
The Sun unleashed an M-2 (medium-sized) solar flare, an S1-class (minor) radiation storm and a spectacular coronal mass ejection (CME) on June 7, 2011 from sunspot complex 1226-1227. The large cloud of particles ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 07, 2011 |
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