Trying to measure sea levels around rugged coastlines is not always an easy task. ESA's CryoSat satellite is making a difference with its radar altimeter.
Earth Sciences
Jul 27, 2016
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Has this ever happened to you? You're out walking with your daughter. She finds a beautiful flower, quizzes you on it, but you're stumped—you have no idea what it is. Instead of having to admit you don't know, what if you ...
Computer Sciences
Jul 27, 2016
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Last month, China signed an agreement with the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) to open the country's future space station for science experiments and astronauts from U.N. member states. According to ...
Space Exploration
Jul 27, 2016
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14
"Pokemon Go" has yet to officially arrive in India, but that's not stopping people there from playing the highly addictive online game.
Software
Jul 27, 2016
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Supernovae are among the most violent phenomena in the universe. They are huge explosions that end the lives of certain types of stars. These explosions release immense amounts of energy, so much that some can be observed ...
Astronomy
Jul 27, 2016
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Cygnus A is an elliptical galaxy around 600 million light years from the Earth, which has a supermassive black hole at its centre. It is one of the brightest sources of radio waves in the sky and was featured in Contact, ...
Astronomy
Jul 27, 2016
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The true stripes of triple-layer metal oxides are charge stripes, physicists say.
Superconductivity
Jul 27, 2016
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14
Video game giant Nintendo said Wednesday it logged a huge first quarter net loss, despite global hoopla over the launch of Pokemon Go which came too late to boost figures.
Business
Jul 27, 2016
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Earth bid a final farewell to robot lab Philae on Wednesday, severing communications after a year-long silence from the pioneering probe hurtling through space on a comet.
Space Exploration
Jul 27, 2016
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"Pokemon Go" players are descending on an atomic bomb memorial park in Hiroshima, and officials of the western Japanese city are displeased.
Software
Jul 27, 2016
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