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Astronomers get a sizzling weather report from a distant planet

Astronomers have observed the intense heating of a distant planet as it swung close to its parent star, providing important clues to the atmospheric properties of the planet. The observations enabled astronomers ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jan 28, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 3




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CWRU class earns Science magazine prize for innovation

Science magazine has awarded a prize for Inquiry-Based Instruction to a Case Western Reserve University class that melds biology, computer modeling, mathematical analysis and writing.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created May 24, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Pollution teams with thunderclouds to warm atmosphere

Pollution is warming the atmosphere through summer thunderstorm clouds, according to a computational study published May 10 in Geophysical Research Letters. How much the warming effect of these clouds offsets the cooling that o ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 18, 2012 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

NREL simulates shade conditions in repeatable test for solar arrays

The DOE's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has released a new repeatable test protocol that simulates real shade conditions and can predict with much greater precision the effects of shade on a solar array.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created May 15, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

University research team creates augmented reality sandbox (w/ Video)

(Phys.org) -- Most children at some point in their schooling are taught about the water table and many wind up being tasked with creating a model of some sort to represent how it all works. Some use clay, ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created May 11, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

In metallic glasses, researchers find a few new atomic structures

Drawing on powerful computational tools and a state-of-the-art scanning transmission electron microscope, a team of University of Wisconsin-Madison and Iowa State University materials science and engineering researchers has ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created May 11, 2012 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (7) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

New dynamic computer model gains greater insight into earthquake cycles

For those who study earthquakes, one major challenge has been trying to understand all the physics of a fault—both during an earthquake and at times of "rest"—in order to know more about how a particular ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 10, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Climate scientists discover new weak point of the Antarctic ice sheet

The Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf fringing the Weddell Sea, Antarctica, may start to melt rapidly in this century and no longer act as a barrier for ice streams draining the Antarctic Ice Sheet. These predictions ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 09, 2012 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (20) | comments 43 | with audio podcast

Darpa seeks technology to see through clouds for warfighter support

Advanced, flyable electronics and scene simulation technology sought for video synthetic aperture radar

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 02, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Student-devised process would prep Chinese shale gas for sale

A team of Rice University students accepted a challenge to turn shale gas produced in China into a range of useful, profitable and environmentally friendly products and did so in a cost-effective manner.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 30, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

What online social networks may know about non-members

(Phys.org) -- What can social networks on the internet know about persons who are friends of members, but have no user profile of their own? Researchers from the Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing of Heidelberg ...

Technology / Internet

created Apr 30, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 4 | with audio podcast


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