(Phys.org)—A biological mystery about the longer lifespans of bigger creatures may be explained by the application of a physical law called the Constructal Law.
Plants & Animals
Aug 24, 2012
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(Phys.org) -- In the quest to understand how the world's weather moves around the globe, scientists have had to tease apart different kinds of atmospheric movement, such as the great jet streams that can move across a whole ...
Space Exploration
Aug 16, 2012
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Turbulent jet streams, regions where winds blow faster than in other places, churn east and west across Saturn. Scientists have been trying to understand for years the mechanism that drives these wavy structures in Saturn's ...
Space Exploration
Jun 25, 2012
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Magnetic instabilities play a crucial role in the emergence of black holes and other cosmic phenomena. At the Helmholtz- Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, confirmation of such a magnetic instability - the Tayler instability - was ...
General Physics
Jun 20, 2012
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Milky white chemical clouds were briefly visible in much of the night sky along the Eastern seaboard on Tuesday after NASA launched a series of rockets to study the jet stream at the edge of the earth's atmosphere.
Space Exploration
Mar 27, 2012
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(AP) -- The launch of five suborbital rockets from Virginia's coast is being rescheduled again.
Space Exploration
Mar 23, 2012
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(AP) -- NASA is again rescheduling the launch of five rockets from Virginia due to bad weather.
Space Exploration
Mar 22, 2012
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA has rescheduled the launch of five suborbital sounding rockets from the Wallops Facility in Virginia as part of a study of the upper level jet stream to no earlier than Tuesday night, March 20.
Space Exploration
Mar 19, 2012
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(PhysOrg.com) -- New movies of Jupiter are the first to catch an invisible wave shaking up one of the giant planet's jet streams, an interaction that also takes place in Earth's atmosphere and influences the weather. The ...
Space Exploration
Mar 13, 2012
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NASA is scheduled to launch five suborbital sounding rockets in just over five minutes March 15 from the Wallops Facility in Virginia as part of a study of the upper level jet stream.
Space Exploration
Mar 13, 2012
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