(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA observatories have located strong infrared signals near the plane of the Milky Way, suggesting the possible presence of massive stars.
Astronomy
Apr 14, 2011
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A new study has revealed widespread reductions in the greenness of Amazon forests caused by the last year's record-breaking drought.
Earth Sciences
Mar 29, 2011
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In the mid-1990s, Matteo Frigo, a graduate student in the research group of computer-science professor Charles Leiserson (whose work was profiled in the previous installment in this series), developed a parallel version of ...
Computer Sciences
Feb 28, 2011
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Earth has done an ecological about-face: Global plant productivity that once flourished under warming temperatures and a lengthened growing season is now on the decline, struck by the stress of drought.
Earth Sciences
Aug 19, 2010
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The largest ice island in almost 50 years poses no immediate threat as it will take up to two years to drift through the Arctic Ocean, the Canadian who discovered it told AFP.
Earth Sciences
Aug 12, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- If computers could recognize objects, they could automatically search through hours of video footage for a particular two-minute scene. A tourist strolling down a street in a strange city could take a cell-phone ...
Computer Sciences
Oct 13, 2009
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(AP) -- Scientists looking for lost penguins stumbled upon an effective method: Follow their poop from space.
Ecology
Jun 2, 2009
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(AP) -- Google said Wednesday it will reshoot all photos in Japan for its Street View service after residents complained the 360-degree panoramic images provided a view over the fences around their homes.
Internet
May 14, 2009
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Using satellite radar data, NASA-funded scientists, including UC Riverside’s Gareth Funning, have observed for the first time the healing of subtle, natural surface scars from an earthquake in Iran that ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 5, 2009
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(PhysOrg.com) -- After five groundbreaking years exploring the Red Planet, the communications engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory pretty much know what they are getting when another downlink from Spirit or Opportunity ...
Space Exploration
Jan 15, 2009
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