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Last Ice Age took just 6 months to arrive
11-30-2009 |
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New research has suggested that the last Ice Age took only 6 months to turn a warm and sunny Europe to become engulfed i...
New reactor uses sunlight to make fuel
11-29-2009 | 6
Scientists at Sandia National Labs have come up with a new reactor that sets of a thermo-chemical reaction in order to c...
Solar tsunamis are real, says NASA
11-27-2009 | 5
Up until now the powerful waves of plasma observed on the surface of the sun known as "solar tsunamis" were thought to b...
Solar winds triggered by magnetic fields
11-24-2009 | 1
A new study based on images returned by the Japanese-UK-US Hinode satellite has found that the solar wind generated by t...
NASA probe reveals Mercury's secrets
11-9-2009 | 3
NASA's Messenger spacecraft has returned data revealing several things previously unknown about the nearest planet to th...
Japanese fish trawler sunk by giant jellyfish
11-3-2009 | 22
A 10-ton fishing boat capsized off the coast of Japan after the crew attempted to haul a net filled with giant jellyfish...
Astronomers find rocky extrasolar planet
9-18-2009 | 3
Astronomers have discovered a rocky extrasolar planet orbiting a distant star that is 1.5 times the size of the Earth bu...
How life survives an asteroid impact
9-13-2009 | 10
When an extinction asteroid collides with the Earth it can create a winter of endless darkness, but scientists have disc...
Mega black hole twice as big as thought
8-23-2009 | 6
It sits at the centre of the M87 galaxy and weighs the same as 6.4 billion suns, this supermassive black hole situated o...
Spots return to the Sun
7-8-2009 | 3
After a long period of sunspot drought the Sun has finally picked up again with a new group of sunspots appearing over t...
Record crowds gather at Stonehenge
6-22-2009 | 0
A record 36,500 people turned up at Stonehenge in Salisbury Plain to see the sun rise and celebrate the summer solstice ...
Mystery of the missing sunspots solved ?
6-21-2009 | 0
For some time now astronomers have tried to determine the cause for the recent lack of sunspot activity in what is deeme...
Sun to have lowest high in 90 years ?
6-15-2009 | 12
The sun has been experiencing a quiet spell recently, however astrophysicists have been debating whether it will remain ...
M-81 black hole bigger than thought
6-9-2009 |
Astronomers have determined that the supermassive black hole at the center of the M87 galaxy is at least twice as large ...
Earth's protective shield is stealing our air
6-1-2009 | 11
The Earth's protective shield, the magnetosphere, may not only be protecting us from the harmful charged particles strea...
Ancient tsunami 'hit New York'
5-6-2009 | 0
Scientists believe a huge wave would have smash in to what is now New York City over 2300 years ago. Studies in to sedim...
Why is moon dust sticky ?
4-24-2009 | 6
A scientist who has studied the question for four decades believes the answer lies in the Sun's ultraviolet and x-ray ra...
Asteroids won't raise killer waves
4-18-2009 | 13
The risk of an asteroid hitting the oceans and producing a massive tidal wave have been reduced substantially following ...
Quiet sun lessens trouble for Earth
4-6-2009 | 4
The Sun has been going through a quiet spell recently, with fewer sunspots than in almost one hundred years. This can ha...
Scientists aim to replicate the Sun
3-18-2009 | 27
Scientists aim to replicate the power of the Sun in a new nuclear fusion experiment involving laser beams being fired at...
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