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'Old Farmer's Almanac' still spots cold in Web age

(AP) -- Doris Smith Mills often comes across past editions of the "Old Farmer's Almanac" lying around her family's 110-year-old Westport, Mass., farm. She believes previous Smiths read it for entertainment ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Sep 10, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Riding -- and reading -- the Earth tide

(PhysOrg.com) -- Once a day, Miaki Ishii rides the Earth tide, rising slowly — along with her desk, chair, and entire office — 20 to 30 centimeters before sinking back again.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 29, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 2




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Solar Dynamics Observatory to observe Venus transit

On June 5, 2012 at 6:03 PM EDT, the planet Venus will do something it has done only seven times since the invention of the telescope: cross in front of the sun. This transit is among the rarest of planetary ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created 20 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Advances in mathematical description of motion

Complex mathematical investigation of problems relevant to classical and quantum mechanics by EU-funded researchers has led to insight regarding instabilities of dynamic systems. This is important for descriptions ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created May 29, 2012 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Venus Express unearths new clues to the planet's geological history

(Phys.org) -- ESA's Venus Express has been used to study the geology in a region near Venus' equator. Using near-infrared observations collected by the Venus Monitoring Camera (VMC), scientists have found ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

NASA Goddard delivers magnetometers for next mission to Mars

Magnetometers built by scientists and engineers at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. for NASA's Mars Atmosphere And Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) mission have been delivered to the University ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 21, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers reveal unseen planet by its gravity

More than a 150 years ago, before Neptune was ever sighted in the night sky, French mathematician Urbain Le Verrier predicted the planet's existence based on small deviations in the motion of Uranus. In a ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created May 10, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (14) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists measure Martian sand movement: Dune migration rates appear to be similar to those on Earth

Last year, images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured sand dunes and ripples moving across the surface of Mars—observations that challenged previously held beliefs that there was not a lot ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

First instrument for the James Webb Space Telescope completed

After more than ten years of work by more than 200 engineers, the Mid InfraRed Instrument (MIRI), a camera so sensitive it could see a candle on one of Jupiter's moons, has been declared ready for delivery ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

NASA's attempt to repeat Viking's search for martian organics

After 36 years of debate, confusion, and failed attempts by other space agencies to answer a basic question, NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) is on its way to repeat the search for organic matter ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 04, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

The robot revolution is just beginning

When industrial robots were first introduced in the early 1960s — initially on automobile assembly lines — computers were still in their infancy, so the robots were designed to perform only the most ...

Electronics / Robotics

created Apr 25, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Amateur astronomers to 'Target Asteroids!'

(Phys.org) -- Researchers on NASA's robotic asteroid sample return mission, OSIRIS-REx, are turning to amateur astronomers for new data on near-Earth asteroids in a citizen science observing campaign called ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 19, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0


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