The Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Core Observatory, launched on Feb. 27 from Tanegashima Space Center in Japan, will help advance our understanding of Earth's water and energy cycles, improve the forecasting of extreme ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 12, 2014
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The Ross Sea, a major, biologically productive Antarctic ecosystem, "clearly will be extensively modified by future climate change" in the coming decades as rising temperatures and changing wind patterns create longer periods ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 12, 2014
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An environmental protection group and labor rights group are trying to pressure Apple into abandoning two hazardous chemicals used to make iPhones.
Business
Mar 12, 2014
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Posts about football topped Africans' tweets last year, trumping even world events like the death of Nelson Mandela, results from a study released on Wednesday showed.
Internet
Mar 12, 2014
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Devices that let you watch Netflix and other streaming video services on a big TV screen are popular, but there are limits to what you can watch.
Consumer & Gadgets
Mar 12, 2014
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World Cup organizers said Wednesday that an estimated 320 tons of solid waste which the June 12 to July 13 event is expected to generate will be sent for recycling.
Environment
Mar 12, 2014
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Tropical Cyclone Gillian made landfall on the western Cape York Peninsula of Queensland, Australia, weakened and has now meandered back over water. On March 12, NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite captured an image of the remnants ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 12, 2014
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Tropical Cyclone Lusi reached hurricane force as NASA's Aqua satellite passed overhead early on March 12.
Earth Sciences
Mar 12, 2014
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A fleet of Earth-monitoring satellites has joined the search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, the organisers of the satellite pool said on Wednesday.
Other
Mar 12, 2014
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(Phys.org) —Researchers have created a new type of "ultracold" molecule, using lasers to cool atoms nearly to absolute zero and then gluing them together, a technology that might be applied to quantum computing, precise ...
Quantum Physics
Mar 12, 2014
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