It took Jackie Goordial over 1000 Petri dishes before she was ready to accept what she was seeing. Or not seeing. Goordial, a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Natural Resource Sciences at McGill University has spent ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 19, 2016
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Auroras are dimly present throughout the night in polar regions, but sometimes these lights explode in brightness. Now Japanese scientists have unlocked the mystery behind this spectacle, known as auroral breakup.
Space Exploration
Dec 21, 2015
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A thrilling chapter in the exploration of the solar system will soon conclude, as NASA's Saturn-orbiting Cassini spacecraft makes its final close flyby of the ocean-bearing moon Enceladus. Cassini is scheduled to fly past ...
Space Exploration
Dec 17, 2015
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Mars represents something of a conundrum for scientists. In many respects, it is significantly different from Earth. It's cold, it's dry, there is little atmosphere or precipitation to speak of, and nothing grows there. ...
Space Exploration
Dec 15, 2015
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It's big. It's cold. And it's melting into the world's oceans.
Earth Sciences
Nov 17, 2015
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft will sample the ocean of Saturn's moon Enceladus on Wednesday, Oct. 28, when it flies through the moon's plume of icy spray.
Space Exploration
Oct 26, 2015
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A new study finds that changing climate in the polar regions can affect conditions in the rest of the world far quicker than previously thought.
Earth Sciences
Oct 14, 2015
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft will wrap up its time in the region of Saturn's large, icy moons with a series of three close encounters with Enceladus starting Wednesday, Oct. 14. Images are expected to begin arriving one to two ...
Space Exploration
Oct 13, 2015
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Using the Microwave Instrument for the Rosetta Orbiter (MIRO), scientists have studied the comet's southern polar regions at the end of their long winter season. The data suggest that these dark, cold regions host ice within ...
Space Exploration
Oct 2, 2015
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International scientists have proposed a new pathway for saving the Arctic and Antarctic from their greatest menace – climate change.
Environment
Sep 28, 2015
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