A new satellite built by NASA and its Japanese counterpart is poised to launch next month on a mission to study rain and snow around the world, the US space agency said Monday.
Space Exploration
Jan 27, 2014
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The current theory of star formation has a problem: it cannot make big stars.
Astronomy
Sep 4, 2013
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Scientists at Curtin University have chronicled the genesis of a particular type of iron deposit in the state's north, finding that the valuable mineral formed relatively late in Western Australia's evolution.
Earth Sciences
Aug 7, 2013
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(Phys.org)—An international collaboration including researchers from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has discovered that the Earth's core formed under more oxidizing condition's than previously proposed.
Earth Sciences
Jan 10, 2013
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(Phys.org)—ESA's Herschel space observatory has discovered enough water vapour to fill Earth's oceans more than 2000 times over, in a gas and dust cloud that is on the verge of collapsing into a new Sun-like star.
Astronomy
Oct 9, 2012
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Banded ironstone core samples from the Pilbara have aided in dating the first appearance of atmospheric oxygen at 2.48 billion years ago.
Earth Sciences
Nov 25, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the more challenging fields of scientific inquiry is planetary formation – and most relevant is that of our own Earth and Moon. The current view, based on chronometry (scientific time measurement) ...
(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers have discovered a new, cosmic phenomenon, termed "coreshine," which is revealing new information about how stars and planets come to be.
Astronomy
Sep 23, 2010
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Oil and natural gas companies rely upon geological core analyses to help them understand and evaluate oil and gas reserves. A rock sample can reveal myriad details about a geological structure's formation, content, and history.
General Physics
Jul 14, 2010
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For nearly twenty years scientists have been trying to resolve the discrepancy in the cold dark matter paradigm - the so-called "Cold Dark Matter catastrophe". Recently an international research group including physics professor ...
General Physics
Jan 14, 2010
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