Today the joint ESA-NASA Ulysses mission has marked another high point in its mission. For the third time in a long and highly successful career, Ulysses has reached its maximum south solar latitude of 80 degrees as it flies ...
Space Exploration
Feb 7, 2007
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Physicists at the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology have taken the first ever two-dimensional pictures of a "frequency comb," providing extra information that enhances the comb's usefulness ...
General Physics
Feb 7, 2007
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Physicists have for the first time stopped and extinguished a light pulse in one part of space and then revived it in a completely separate location. They accomplished this feat by completely converting the light pulse into ...
General Physics
Feb 7, 2007
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Temperatures are rising on Earth, which is heating up the debate over global warming and the future of our planet, but what may be needed most to combat global warming is a greater focus on adapting to our changing planet, ...
Environment
Feb 7, 2007
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The largest climate change in central North America since the age of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, a temperature drop of nearly 15 degrees Fahrenheit, is documented within the fossilized teeth of horses and other plant-eating ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 7, 2007
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The bacterium that causes most kinds of stomach ulcers has been present in the human digestive tract ever since Homo sapiens ventured out of Africa some 60,000 years ago, a study says.
Feb 7, 2007
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Female Antarctic fur seals will travel across a colony to actively seek males which are genetically diverse and unrelated, rather than mate with local dominant males.
Feb 7, 2007
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Physicists at JILA have demonstrated that the warmer a surface is, the stronger its subtle ability to attract nearby atoms, a finding that could affect the design of devices that rely on small-scale interactions, such as ...
General Physics
Feb 7, 2007
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A new analysis led by an MIT scientist describes a mechanism for capturing carbon dioxide emissions from a power plant and injecting the gas into the ground, where it would be trapped naturally as tiny bubbles and safely ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 7, 2007
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Researchers from the University of Leicester and the British Geological Society (BGS) have proposed storing CO2 in huge underground reservoirs as a way of reducing emissions- and have even identified sites in Western Europe ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 7, 2007
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