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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Global average temperatures will rise at least 4°C by 2100 and potentially more than 8°C by 2200 if carbon dioxide emissions are not reduced according to new research published in Nature. Scientists found global climate is more ...
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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 ...
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Power plant emissions of sulfur dioxide – an atmospheric pollutant with both health and climate impacts – have increased across India in recent years, according to a new analysis of data from a NASA satellite. The analysis of ...
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Cloud's Meats, Inc., of Carthage, MO, is voluntarily recalling beef and pork products that may possibly be contaminated with E. coli after positive test results in samples of items produced in mid-November. According to a Dec. 2 news ...
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Data from NASA's AIM spacecraft show that noctilucent clouds are like a great "geophysical light bulb." They turn on every year in late spring, reaching almost full intensity over a period of no more than 5 to 10 days. As December ...
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The completion of the 30-day Lunar Laser Communication Demonstration or LLCD mission has revealed that the possibility of expanding broadband capabilities in space using laser communications is as bright as expected. Hosted aboard the ...
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We went into the DARPA Robotics Challenge Trials with what we thought were realistic expectations. And generally, we had the right idea: the robots are very slow, very deliberate, and not always successful. But overall, we've been surprised ...
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Choosing and installing the right kind of overcurrent protection is becoming more important as projects increase in size and power, says Tony Garlinge-Warren, applications engineer at Eaton's Bussmann business. News that cumulative PV ...
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Cloud's Meats is recalling 1,450 pounds of beef and pork products, as they may be contaminated with E. coli, the Missouri Department of Agriculture (MDA) announced. The move comes after the product samples tested positive for non-0157 ...
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The scent of diesel, rusting anchors and fish slurry hung in the humid air of the harbor. I was in Puntarenas on the western shore of Costa Rica, waiting to leave on a scuba-diving trip to Cocos Island – often called an "underwater ...
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Cisco Systems’s third annual Global Cloud Index forecasts that global cloud traffic will more than quadruple, from 1.2 zettabytes in 2012 to 5.3 ZB in 2017. That works out to about 443 exabytes a month, or about 476 billion GB. ...
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Are you a pilot looking forward to explore the world of aerobatic thrill rides or are you an adventure enthusiast dreaming to take to the sky for an excitng airplane ride? Whatever be your choice, you can expect finding it all onboard a ...
Enterprises and service providers are looking beyond collections of boxes and toward virtual data centers that are better at growing and changing, and now application services such as security and acceleration are about to fit into that ...
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The latest documents to be leaked via whistleblower Edward Snowden suggest that the US National Security Agency (NSA) and GCHQ have tapped the communications networks of popular internet companies. "Top secret" documents published in the ...
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