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'Dramatic' solar flare could disrupt Earth communicationsWashington (AFP) June 7, 2011 An unusual solar flare observed by a NASA space observatory on Tuesday could cause some disruptions to satellite communications and power on Earth over the next day or so, officials said. The potent blast from the Sun unleashed a firestorm of radiation on a level not witnessed since 2006, and will likely lead to moderate geomagnetic storm activity by Wednesday, according to the National Weather Service. "This one was rather dramatic," said Bill Murtagh, program coordinator at the NWS's Space Wea ... read more |
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  ALPHA stores antimatter atoms for nearly 17 minutes The ALPHA Collaboration, an international team of scientists working at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, has created and stored a total of 309 antihydrogen atoms, some for up to 1,000 seconds (almost 17 ... more | .. |
  Jupiter's Youthful Travels Redefined Solar System Jupiter, long settled in its position as the fifth planet from our sun, was a rolling stone in its youth. Over the eons, the giant planet roamed toward the center of the solar system and back out ag ... more | .. |
 NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory Catches "Surfer" Waves on the Sun Cue the surfing music. Scientists have spotted the iconic surfer's wave rolling through the atmosphere of the sun. This makes for more than just a nice photo-op: the waves hold clues as to how energ ... more | .. |
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 Astrophysicists use X-ray fingerprints to study eating habits of giant black holes By studying the X-rays emitted when superheated gases plunge into distant and massive black holes, astrophysicists at the Georgia Institute of Technology have provided an important test of a long-st ... more | .. |
  Weizmann Institute Observatory Captures Images of a New Supernova Exploding stars are the "factories" that produce all the heavy elements found, among other places, in our bodies. In this sense, we are all stardust. These exploding stars - supernovae - are highly ... more | .. |
  Gliese's Hints of Habitability An international team of astronomers has ruled out transits of a water-rich or hydrogen-helium atmosphere planet for Gliese 581e. The host star itself is relatively quiet which means good news for t ... more | .. |
  Rosetta to sleep through loneliest leg of comet mission On 8 June, mission controllers will have the first opportunity to switch ESA's Rosetta comet-hunter into deep-space hibernation for 31 months. During this loneliest leg of its decade-long mission, R ... more |
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Deloitte launches Silent Shield system to monitor satellite cyber threats
Trump deploys nuclear submarines in row with Russia
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  Apple takes a giant leap into the 'iCloud' cloud Apple chief executive Steve Jobs on Monday interrupted his medical leave to unveil a free service called iCloud that stores music, photos and other content on the Web and shares it across multiple devices. ... more | .. |
 Measuring certainty in quantum physics world Quantum mechanics is famous for saying that a tree falling in a forest when there's no one there doesn't make a sound. Quantum mechanics also says that if anyone is listening, it interferes with and ... more | .. |
 Phase Change Memory-Based Moneta System Points to the Future of Computer Storage A University of California, San Diego faculty-student team is about to demonstrate a first-of-its kind, phase-change memory solid state storage device that provides performance thousands of times fa ... more | .. |
 Making complex fluids look simple An international research team has successfully developed a widely applicable method for discovering the physical foundations of complex fluids for the first time. Researchers at the University of V ... more |
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 "Oddball" Star Cluster is a Hybrid Scientists will tell you that the romantic idea is factually true: we are made of the same stuff as stars. In fact, all chemical elements heavier than helium are made in the stars, and research into ... more | .. |
  A Rare Eclipse of the Midnight Sun It sounds like an oxymoron: a solar eclipse at midnight. According to NASA, it's about to happen. "It might sound like a contradiction to have a solar eclipse in the middle of the night, but this is ... more | .. |
  Looking at the volatile side of the Moon Four decades after the first Moon landing, our only natural satellite remains a fascinating enigma. Specialists from Europe and the US have been looking at ESA's proposed Lunar Lander mission to fin ... more | .. |
 Mapping mayhem where Sun's magnetic influence wanes When Voyager 1 passed into the heliosheath in 2004, it became the first man-made object to explore the remote edge of the Sun's magnetic influence. The heliosheath, from 1.5 to 15 billion kilo ... more |
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A weakening forest buffer challenges EU climate goals
DefendEye adds Starlink Mini to tube drone system for real time global search ops
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 Probing the Origins of Extreme Neutron Stars Neutron stars are the unimaginably dense corpses of what were once much more massive stars that died while being ripped apart in a supernova explosion. Their average density is typically more than o ... more | .. |
  A Night with the Stars...in a Conference Room Ancient astronomers looked up at the dark skies in wonder, as the stars marched by overhead like precision dancers. In the early 17th century, Galileo Galilei brought the world one step closer to th ... more | .. |
 'Dead' galaxies aren't so dead after all University of Michigan astronomers examined old galaxies and were surprised to discover that they are still making new stars. The results provide insights into how galaxies evolve with time. U-M re ... more | .. |
  The Shape of Mercury The MESSENGER spacecraft, recently injected into orbit about the Solar Systems' inner-most planet is already yielding important new information about Mercury. This spacecraft carries a laser altimet ... more |
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 Did A Massive Solar Proton Event Fry The Earth Close to the end of the last ice age there was a sudden disappearance of many mammalian species which some paleontologists say was the most severe since the disappearance of the dinosaurs 65 million ... more | .. |
 The Power of A Moon Rock Between 1969 and 1972 six Apollo missions brought back 382 kilograms (842 pounds) of lunar rocks, core samples, pebbles, sand and dust from the lunar surface. The six space flights returned 2,200 se ... more | .. |
 Apple takes a giant leap into the cloud Apple chief executive Steve Jobs on Monday interrupted his medical leave to unveil a free service called iCloud that stores music, photos and other content on the Web and shares it across multiple devices. ... more | .. |
Apple poised to introduce iCloud Apple chief executive Steve Jobs is taking a break from medical leave on Monday to preside over the opening of the company's annual conference for software developers. ... more |
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Ancient Roman concrete longevity offers mixed sustainability benefits
Increasing solar energy use offers key opportunity to reduce US carbon emissions
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 The Role of Space Weathering Mercury and its environment constitute a complex system that includes interactions among the interplanetary medium, the planet's magnetic field, its tenuous atmosphere (or exosphere), and its surfac ... more | .. |
Comet probe to enter 'hibernation' Controllers of a European comet-hunting spacecraft say they will put it in deep-space hibernation for the next 31 months as it heads for its distant target. ... more | .. |
 How Typical is the Milky Way How unique is the Milky Way? To find out, a group of researchers led by Stanford University astrophysicist Risa Wechsler compared the Milky Way to similar galaxies and found that just four percent a ... more | .. |
 Deepest living creatures on Earth found Creatures dubbed "worms from hell" have been found at a depth of more than a mile, where it was thought animals could not survive, U.S. researchers say. ... more |
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  Rage Against the Dying of the Light Geoff Marcy is mad. Not mad as in 'crazy,' although many scientists thought he was nuts when he first started hunting for planets orbiting far-distant stars over twenty years ago. Now that over 500 ... more | .. |
 Disruption of Molecular Clouds by Star Clusters New computer simulations show that the light from massive stars is, by itself, enough to blow apart the nebula where the stars are born. While this 'radiation pressure' was by and large overlooked i ... more | .. |
  Dramatic Display Forecast for 2011 Draconid Meteors The Draconid meteor shower is expected to produce unusually high peak meteor rates of 1,000 per hour on October 8, 2011. A typical strong meteor shower, like the Perseid shower which occurs every su ... more | .. |
 The night sky in June Now, June nights are pretty cool, so you're going to need a blanket, a pillow or two, your binoculars and perhaps a warm glass of Milo or a fine red to keep warm while you stargaze. On a clear night ... more |
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