CCNY's solar roof pod showcases innovative technology
A unique structure in the urban landscape has arisen on a plaza of The City College of New York campus over the past few months. Designed and built by CCNY students, faculty and team sponsors, it is meant ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Sep 07, 2011 |
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Dwarf planet mysteries beckon to New Horizons
(PhysOrg.com) -- At this very moment one of the fastest spacecraft ever launched -- NASA's New Horizons -- is hurtling through the void at nearly one million miles per day. Launched in 2006, it has been in ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 05, 2011 |
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NASA gives public new internet tool to explore the solar system
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA is giving the public the power to journey through the solar system using a new interactive Web-based tool.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 04, 2011 |
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Earth could spread life across the Milky Way
Most of us are familiar with the concept of panspermia – where living organisms can be “seeded” from comet or asteroid impacts – but where does the life-giving content come from? According ...
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Sep 02, 2011 |
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Mission possible or impossible? UA space systems engineer has the answer
Scientists have endless ideas for extraterrestrial exploration. Some are feasible, some not. In a two-part series, we look at how UA engineer Roberto Furfaro gives the red or green light to space missions. ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 02, 2011 |
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Solar industry responsible for lead emissions in developing countries
Solar power is not all sunshine. It has a dark side -- particularly in developing countries, according to a new study by a University of Tennessee, Knoxville, engineering professor.
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Aug 31, 2011 |
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Earth-bound asteroids come from stony asteroids, new studies confirm
Researchers got their first up-close look at dust from the surface of a small, stony asteroid after the Hayabusa spacecraft scooped some up and brought it back to Earth. Analysis of these dust particles, detailed ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 25, 2011 |
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Simulation shows how Earth may have seeded life on other planets
(PhysOrg.com) -- When comets and asteroids impact Earth, we’re usually most concerned with how the impact events have affected life here. But scientists have pointed out that these impact events can eject ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 23, 2011 |
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Astronomers find ice and possibly methane on Snow White, a distant dwarf planet
Astronomers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have discovered that the dwarf planet 2007 OR10—nicknamed Snow White—is an icy world, with about half its surface covered in water ...
Aug 22, 2011 |
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Hubble to target 'hot jupiters'
(PhysOrg.com) -- An international team of astronomers led by a former UA graduate student has set out on the largest program to date exploring the alien atmospheres of "Hot Jupiters" - massive planets in solar ...
Aug 22, 2011 |
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Habitable zones
(PhysOrg.com) -- The "habitable zone" is the region around a star where a suitable planet could sustain the conditions necessary for life. Most astronomers take it to be the region where the balance between ...
Aug 22, 2011 |
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Amino acid alphabet soup
All life on Earth relies on a standard set of 20 amino acids to build the proteins that carry out life's essential actions. But did it have to be this way?
Aug 19, 2011 |
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New method detects emerging sunspots deep inside the sun, provides warning of dangerous solar flares
Viewed from the technological perspective of modern humans, the sun is a seething cauldron of disruptive influences that can wreak havoc on communication systems, air travel, power grids and satellites – ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 18, 2011 |
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Interstellar crashes could throw out habitable planets
(PhysOrg.com) -- Our solar system, where planets have a range of sizes and move in near-circular paths, may be rather unusual, according to a German-British team led by Professor Pavel Kroupa of the University ...
Aug 18, 2011 |
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Comet Elenin poses no threat to Earth
(PhysOrg.com) -- Often, comets are portrayed as harbingers of gloom and doom in movies and on television, but most pose no threat to Earth. Comet Elenin, the latest comet to visit our inner solar system, is ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 17, 2011 |
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