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Exploring The Red Planet / Science News
Science News — Mars Odyssey set to begin its mission Home / January 19th, 2002; Vol.161 #3 / Feature Exploring the Red PlanetMore…
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Earth May Be Home To Unearthly Life / Science News
Science News — Scientists may not need to explore outer space to find 'alien' biology, cosmologist says Forms of life different from the organisms humans are familiar with may exist on this planet already, says cosmologist Paul Davies of Arizona State ...More…
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Galaxy Mix: No Dark Matter Required / Science News
Science News — Darth Vaders of astronomy, step aside. Purveyors of theories of dark matter - the invisible, as-yet-undetected material supposedly needed for galaxy formation - have a seat. Astronomers say they have found evidence that the gravitational collapse ...More…
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Seeing The Future Hot Spells / Science News
Science News — Satellite observations of soil moisture, combined with regional climate models, could help scientists better predict the size and scope of future heat waves, a new study suggests. One of the most devastating heat waves in recent years struck ...More…
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Antarctic Ecosystem Holds Unusual Microbes / Science News
Science News — Long isolated, they thrive in dark, salty water and breathe iron A frigid, sulfate-rich pool of anoxic, hypersaline water that hasn't seen the sun since it was capped by a 400-meter-thick Antarctic glacier at least 1.5 million years ago is host ...More…
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A Little Air Pollution Boosts Vegetation's Carbon Uptake ...
Science News — Aerosols bumped up world's plant productivity by 25 percent in the 1960s and 1970s, new research suggests The world's vegetation soaked up carbon dioxide more efficiently under the polluted skies of recent decades than it would have under a ...More…
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The Solar System's Big Bang / Science News
Science News — Very interesting indeed, but how do you date non-terrestrial material? Carbon dating only works on Earth because carbon 14 is created in the outer atmosphere and settles on the ground before slowly and steadily decaying into carbon 12. How then ...More…
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Cosmic Mystery / Science News
Science News — High-energy invaders from space could signal a nearby pulsar, or perhaps dark matter There's an air of excitement in the astrophysics community, created by a surplus of particles from space invading Earth's atmosphere. Balloon flights high in the ...More…
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White House Commissions Spaceflight-review Panel / ...
Science News — The most hotly probed issue at today's press briefings on the Obama administration's blueprint for federal spending on science were details about a tangential issue: the just-announced blue-ribbon panel to consider near-term options for getting .. ...More…
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Island Press, 2009, 307 p., $24.95.
Science News — Hightower eventually traces the symptoms to diets rich in big fish such as tuna and swordfish, the types that accumulate high concentrations of methylmercury. Her cure: Forgo eating fish for up to a year. Now Hightower takes readers along on her ...More…
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Barron's Educational Series, 2009, 960 p., $35.
Science News — Countless inventions, large and small, have played defining roles in human history. But when editor Jack Challoner began to compile a list of these innovations, he wondered if 1,001 might be too many. He quickly realized the number was far too small.More…
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Planck By Planck / Science News
Science News — The upcoming ESA mission will study the cosmic microwave background radiation for clues about the dawn of time Astronomers say it's not a scam. The launch of the European Space Agency's Planck mission, set for May 6, will put into orbit a new ...More…