10 Mar 2010 at 9:00pm
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European Space Agency) Take a bunch of fast-moving electrons, place them in orbit and then hit them with the shock waves from a solar storm. What do you get? Killer electrons. That's the shocking recipe revealed by ESA's Cluster mission.
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10 Mar 2010 at 9:00pm
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European Space Agency) Specialists from various Earth system science disciplines recently gathered to address a major question: what will our environment look like in the future?
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9 Mar 2010 at 9:00pm
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center) Distant galaxy clusters mysteriously stream at a million miles per hour along a path roughly centered on the southern constellations Centaurus and Hydra. A new study led by Alexander Kashlinsky at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., tracks this collective motion -- dubbed the "dark flow" -- to twice the distance originally reported.
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9 Mar 2010 at 9:00pm
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center) The low that forecasters were watching for development yesterday, March 9, strengthened into Tropical Storm Hubert, and is already making landfall in eastern Madagascar.
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9 Mar 2010 at 9:00pm
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center) Tropical cyclones typically don't form in the Southern Atlantic because the waters are usually too cool. However, forecasters at the Naval Research Laboratory noted that a low pressure system off the coast of Brazil appeared to have tropical storm-force winds yesterday.
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9 Mar 2010 at 9:00pm
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University of California - Berkeley) While general relativity describes well the behavior of the solar system, Einstein's theory of gravity and spacetime has not been tested on cosmological scales. Now, a team that includes UC Berkeley physicist Uros Seljak has analyzed data on 70,000 galaxies to show that the theory is so far the best description of the universe, at least out to 3.5 billion light years from Earth. Specifically, theories without dark matter do not fit the observations.
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8 Mar 2010 at 9:00pm
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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center) Forecasters are watching a low pressure area located off the east coast of Madagascar that appears ripe for development in the Southern Indian Ocean. If it becomes a tropical storm, it would be named Hubert.
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8 Mar 2010 at 9:00pm
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Durham University) Scientists have found evidence of a catastrophic event they believe was responsible for halting the birth of stars in a galaxy in the early universe.
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8 Mar 2010 at 9:00pm
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University of Warwick) An international team of astronomers, including Professor Tom Marsh and Dr. Danny Steeghs from the University of Warwick, have shown that the two stars in the binary HM Cancri definitely revolve around each other in a mere 5.4 minutes. This makes HM Cancri the binary star with by far the shortest known orbital period. It is also the smallest known binary.
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7 Mar 2010 at 9:00pm
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American Geophysical Union) Featured in this release are research papers on the following topics: Lack of arches doubled Arctic strait's sea-ice loss; Solar wind pulses help blow away Martian atmosphere; Patterns of colored organic matter reveal ocean features; Accurately estimating climate feedbacks; Ocean acidification: Simply predicting key depths; and Deep-ocean billows observed.
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