Image: Myanmar inundated
Since mid-July, more than a million people have been severely affected by monsoon floods and landslides in Myanmar. What is the current situation?
Earth Sciences
Aug 14, 2015
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Satellites make a load of difference to bridge safety
When extreme weather comes our way, realtime information from space can help us to decide if closing a bridge is the right thing to do.
Engineering
May 18, 2015
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European team creates universal 'language' for space science
A consortium of European space scientists has succeeded in establishing a common data hub that allows the comparison of data from numerous space missions. A task that until now was hampered by different data processing protocols ...
Space Exploration
Apr 8, 2015
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Physicists propose method to measure variations in the speed of light
(Phys.org)—The speed of light, c, is one of the best-known constants, having a value of just under 300,000,000 meters per second in a vacuum. But in some alternative theories of cosmology, the speed of light is not actually ...
Satellite science improves storm surge forecasting around the world
A new online resource which will help coastguards, meteorological organisations and scientific communities predict future storm surge patterns has been created, with scientists from the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 6, 2015
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Astrophysicists offer new research, tool for identifying habitable zones
Research by a University of Texas at Arlington astrophysicist sheds greater light on S-type and P-type binary stars and forms the basis for BinHab, a new online tool that can be used to calculate the regions of binary systems ...
Astronomy
Dec 22, 2014
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Researchers resolve the Karakoram glacier anomaly, a cold case of climate science
Researchers from Princeton University and other institutions may have hit upon an answer to a climate-change puzzle that has eluded scientists for years, and that could help understand the future availability of water for ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 22, 2014
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Satellites for smart logging
Satcoms are helping to save our trees through more efficient use of our forests.
Environment
Oct 22, 2014
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New ISERV tool enables rapid view of Earth images from space
Flipping through online photo albums and social media collections of "selfies" is one thing, but when pictures can show land areas where millions of people live, it can put things in a completely different perspective - especially ...
Space Exploration
Sep 24, 2014
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Shifting land won't stop your journey
Subsidence, rockfalls and landslides threaten potentially devastating human and economic consequences across Europe – but satellites can help.
Earth Sciences
Jun 24, 2014
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