Strongest Solar Storm Since 2005 Hitting Earth US News Storm can impact GPS, air travel | WASHINGTON (AP) — Space weather officials say the strongest solar storm in more than six years is bombarding Earth with radiation with more to come. | The radiation is mostly an issue for satellite disruptions and astronauts in space. It can cause communicati...
Toyota Prius, Other Fuel-Saving Cars, May Soon Be Free Of Heavily Regulated Rare Earths Huffington Post | TOKYO (Reuters) - Toyota Motor Corp has developed a way to make hybrid and electric vehicles without the use of expensive rare earth metals, in which China has a near-monopoly, Japan's Kyodo News reported. | Toyota, the world's top producer of fuel-saving hybrid cars such as the Prius, could bring...
Fowl play: man charged after driving over ducks Sydney Morning Herald | A provisional driver has been charged with animal cruelty after allegedly running over a group of ducks in northern NSW. | An off-duty police officer spotted the 18-year-old man driving along Beardy Street, Armidale, on January 26. | It's alleged t...
Communities count cost of flooding Sydney Morning Herald Click here for latest weather forecast | Communities across northern NSW are assessing widespread damage to homes and roads today as easing weather conditions have led to floodwaters receding for the first time in five days. | But dire weather foreca...
Bus-sized asteroid shaves by Earth The Daily Telegraph Australia | AN asteroid about the size of a bus shaved by Earth on Friday in what spacewatchers described as a "near-miss," though experts were not concerned about the possibility of an impact. | The asteroid, named 2012 BX34, measured between six an...
Bus-sized asteroid flies by earth in 'near-miss' The Daily Telegraph Australia | AN asteroid about the size of a bus shaved by Earth on Friday in what spacewatchers described as a "near-miss," though experts were not concerned about the possibility of an impact. | The asteroid, named 2012 BX34, measured between six an...
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Russia's Mars spacecraft falls in Pacific Ocean The Times Of India MOSCOW: Doomed Russian Phobos-Grunt Mars probe spacecraft, which had been stuck in Earth orbit for two months, crashed down in the Pacific Ocean late Sunday. | Launched Nov 9, Phob...
The Rise Of Dark Inventory In Housing And Oil Business Insider The Automatic Earth | URL | The Automatic Earth is a blog about the credit crunch Recent Posts The Storm Surge Of Decentralization Is Coming The End Of The Euro And The End Of The ...
Biodiversity vital for maintaining ecosystem functions in drylands Newstrack India | Washington, Jan 13 (ANI): Diverse plant life may play a crucial role in buffering the negative impact of climate change and desertification in dryland ecosystems, a new study has...
Agent of S.T.Y.L.E. - ALAN SCOTT: EARTH 2 Fashion Comeback? Newsarama | In the DC Comics Universe, there are different types of magic aligned with either order or chaos. And long ago, there were also forms of magical energy that were aligned to neither of these fundamental forces. The Guardians of the Universe, near-im...
Google Earth 6.2: Virtual Globe Gets A Makeover, Adds Google+ Social Features (PHOTOS) Huffington Post | Google Earth just got a much less patchy -- and a little more social. | The search giant rolled out an update to its virtual globe application on Thursday, calling this latest version "the most beautiful Google Earth yet." | One frustrating charact...
Google Earth update offers smoother graphics, Google+ integration Venture Beat | Google rolled out a new version of its Google Earth software that replaces the patchy, quilt-like mapping graphics with a smoother, more cohesive update. | “The Google Earth globe is made from a mosaic of satellite and aerial photographs take...
Signs of New Life as U.N. Searches for a Climate Accord The New York Times | WASHINGTON — Critics and supporters alike agree that the U.N. forum for negotiating international climate change policies is an ungainly mess, its annual gatherings marked by discord, disarray and brinkmanship. Related | Times Topic: World Economic Forum (Davos) | Each year, exhausted delegates and observers return home thinking that there ...
>Spiders Hunt With 3-D Vision Wired News | By Elsa Youngsteadt, | With their keen vision and deadly-accurate pounce, jumping spiders are the cats of the invertebrate world. For decades, scientists have puzzled over how the spiders’ miniature nervous systems manage such sophisticated perception and hunting behavior. A new study of Adanson’s jumping spider (Hasarius adansoni) fi...
