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Phoenix Mars Lander finds surprises about red planet's watery past
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09/10/2010 02:52 PM
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Liquid water has interacted with the Martian surface throughout Mars' history, measurements by NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander suggest. (2010-09-10)
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Satellite data reveal seasonal pollution changes over India
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09/10/2010 02:52 PM
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Armed with a decade's worth of satellite data, University of Illinois atmospheric scientists have documented some surprising trends in aerosol pollution concentration, distribution and composition over the Indian subcontinent. (2010-09-09)
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Report issued today examines improving long-term climate forecasts
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09/10/2010 02:52 PM
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Operational forecasting centers produce climate predictions that provide input for important decisions regarding water management, agriculture, and energy. (2010-09-09)
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Can We Spot Volcanoes on Alien Worlds? Astronomers Say Yes.
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09/10/2010 02:52 PM
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Volcanoes display the awesome power of Nature like few other events. Earlier this year, ash from an Icelandic volcano disrupted air travel throughout much of northern Europe. Yet this recent eruption pales next to the fury of Jupiter's moon Io, the most volcanic body in our solar system. (2010-09-08)
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Unusual feed supplement could ease greenhouse gassy cows
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09/10/2010 02:52 PM
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Cow belches, a major source of greenhouse gases, could be decreased by an unusual feed supplement developed by a Penn State dairy scientist. (2010-09-08)
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Most new farmland comes from cutting tropical forest, says Stanford researcher
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09/10/2010 02:52 PM
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A new study led by a Stanford researcher shows that more than 80 percent of the new farmland created in the tropics between 1980 and 2000 came from felling forests, which sends carbon into the atmosphere and drives global warming. But the research team also noted that big agribusiness has largely replaced small farmers in doing most of the tree cutting in Brazil and Indonesia, which may make it easier to rein in the trend. (2010-09-03)
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Carlos '97 free kick no fluke, say French physicists
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09/10/2010 02:52 PM
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Roberto Carlos' free kick goal against France in 1997's Tournoi de France is thought by many to have been the most skilful free kick goal - from 35m with a powerful curling banana trajectory - ever scored; but by others to have been an incredible fluke. (2010-09-02)
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NIST ultraviolet source helps NASA spacecraft measure the origins of space weather
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09/10/2010 02:52 PM
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With a brilliant, finely tuned spark of ultraviolet (UV) light, a physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) helped NASA scientists successfully position a crucial UV sensor inside a space-borne instrument to observe a "hidden" layer of the Sun where violent space weather can originate. (2010-09-02)
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Goodbye to cold nights
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09/10/2010 02:52 PM
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Given the impact of climatic extremes on agriculture and health in Spain, researchers at the University of Salamanca (USAL) have analysed the two factors most representative of these thermal extremes between 1950 and 2006 - warm days and cold nights. (2010-09-01)
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With new technique, UF astronomers find potassium in giant planet's atmosphere
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09/10/2010 02:52 PM
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Any driver who's seen deer silhouetted by the headlights of an oncoming car knows that vital information can be conveyed by the outlines of objects. (2010-09-01)
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University of Colorado students, staff help NASA decommission satellite
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09/10/2010 02:52 PM
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University of Colorado at Boulder undergraduates, who have been helping to control five NASA satellites from campus, participated in the unusual decommissioning of a functioning satellite with a failed science payload in recent days, bringing the craft into Earth re-entry to burn up yesterday. (2010-09-01)
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Dramatic climate change is unpredictable
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09/10/2010 02:52 PM
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The fear that global temperature can change very quickly and cause dramatic climate changes that may have a disastrous impact on many countries and populations is great around the world. (2010-08-31)
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NRL scientist seeing clearly the effects of pyrocumulonimbus
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09/10/2010 02:52 PM
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Wildfires can wreak widespread havoc and devastation, affecting environmental assets lives, property and livelihoods. (2010-08-27)
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Shrinking atmospheric layer linked to low levels of solar radiation
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09/10/2010 02:52 PM
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Large changes in the sun's energy output may drive unexpectedly dramatic fluctuations in Earth's outer atmosphere. (2010-08-27)
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