Earth may not have possessed the continents it does now if not for life, instead becoming a planet covered nearly entirely in ocean. If not for life, Earth may not have possessed the continents it does now, instead becoming a planet ...
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An international team of astronomers has discovered the first Earth-mass planet that transits, or crosses in front of, its host star. KOI-314c is the lightest planet to have both its mass and physical size measured. Surprisingly, although ...
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Weather forecasters on exoplanet GJ 1214b would have an easy job. Today's forecast: cloudy. Tomorrow: overcast. Extended outlook: more clouds. A team of scientists led by researchers in the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the ...
Tags: exoplanet GJ 1214b, weather forecast, super-Earth class planet, Hubble
A pair of researchers at Peking University in Beijing China, has extended the capabilities of an existing computer simulation that is used to study tidally locked exoplanets. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy ...
Tags: computer simulation, tidally locked exoplanets, ocean currents
"Mo", the face of Mohawk's SmartStrand Unleashed Campaign Mohawk continues to put the soil- and stain-resistance benefits of SmartStrand carpet to the test. Now that SmartStrand has successfully taken on zoo animals, messy kids and a ...
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Red Carpet Runner Event Management In the last few years, as it has been noticed, the event control organizations are growing very fast. The reason being more and more people and organizations are willing to handle their features expertly ...
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Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego, CA, USA, a fabless provider of radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) based on silicon-on-sapphire (SOS) and silicon-on-insulator (SOI), has shipped its 2 billionth UltraCMOS chip (shipped to ...
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While Microsoft's recent acquisition of Nokia's smartphone division is potentially good news for Microsoft, the company needs to work on its branding issues if it's to start seeing greater success in the mobile hardware industry, a Gartner ...
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Within a couple of years, researchers at the University of Southern California believe 3D printing techniques will be used to construct entire buildings in less than a day. As outrageous as it sounds, such machines can already extrude ...
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It’s been variously belittled as a Boxster with a roof, or the Porsche that tells people you can’t afford a 911 … but the Porsche Cayman emerged in 2005 to quickly establish itself as one of the great driver’s cars. ...
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In the ice-cold cargo hold of a pirate tuna vessel in the Pacific, I have somehow lost my shoe. Frozen tuna fins slice my unshod foot as I fumble around on all fours, reaching into the gigantic, frigid pile. I had boarded the pirate ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food, fish
RF front-end component maker and foundry services provider TriQuint Semiconductor Inc of Hillsboro, OR, USA reflected on its role in helping land NASA's Curiosity rover safely on Mars as program managers say the mission is reaching a key ...
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Scientists have discovered a solar system with three super-Earths that could possibly hold liquid water,meaning they have the ability to support life. The three potentially habitable planets are part of a system of at least six planets ...
Tags: Neighbors, planets, galaxy, super-Earths
NASA's Kepler space telescope is in trouble. The telescope, launched in 2009 in search of Earth-like planets, has lost the use of one of the four wheels that control its orientation in space. Kepler, for the second time this month, has ...
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In this modern era, technology has proved to be a boon for all industries. Several instruments are being used for different purposes. One such useful device is inclinometer which is used to measure the slope and elevation of an object with ...