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Geoengineering: A whiter sky

One idea for fighting global warming is to increase the amount of aerosols in the atmosphere, scattering incoming solar energy away from the Earth's surface. But scientists theorize that this solar geoengineering could have ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 31, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 16 | with audio podcast

Electric Moon jolts the solar wind

(Phys.org) -- With the Moon as the most prominent object in the night sky and a major source of an invisible pull that creates ocean tides, many ancient cultures thought it could also affect our health or ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 30, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Research team uses a laser frequency comb to calibrate spectrographs

(Phys.org) -- In the never ending quest to find out if there is life out there beyond our own planet, astronomers, astrophysicists and other researchers use all manner of tools to scan the sky looking for ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created May 31, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

Newly found asteroid buzzes Earth

A newly found space rock will give Earth a close shave on May 29, passing by at a distance of just 14,440 kilometers (8,950 miles). That distance puts the small asteroid, named 2012 KT42, in the top ten list ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

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