Posts Tagged ‘solar’
Wednesday, January 25th, 2012

Or so the headlines have read for the past few days. Here’s the skinny on the largest solar storm since 2003…
Tags: aurora, cme, flares, solar, storms, sun
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Friday, December 9th, 2011

Tsunamis, the solar max and… oysters? Our Friday science news round-up featuring headlines from this week’s American Geophysical Union (AGU) meeting.
Tags: gulf of mexico, nasa, noaa, oil spill, oysters, peter roopnarine, solar, storms, tsunami
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Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011

NASA’s Glory satellite, scheduled to launch Friday, will be an important tool in understanding Earth’s climate.
Tags: aerosols, climate, climate change, glory, nasa, satellites, solar
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Monday, February 28th, 2011

How can we be better prepared for the next solar storm?
Tags: cme, coronal mass ejection, flares, geomagnetic, nasa, noaa, sdo, solar, space weather, stereo, storm
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Friday, January 7th, 2011

Massive Die-Offs, Oil and DNA Sequencing: 2011 started off with a bang—science news-wise.
Tags: bacteria, birds, dna, eclipse, fish, gulf of mexico, jack dumbacher, methane, microbes, oceans, oil spill, sequencing, solar, usgs
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Thursday, December 30th, 2010

2010 was a roller coaster year for science news—think exoplanets, synthetic-life, arsenic-eating bacteria (or not!), earthquakes, volcanoes and of course, the Gulf oil spill.
Tags: alternative energy, arsenic, astronomy, bacteria, bats, bedbugs, biodiversity, brain, census, cern, dna, earthquake, electric, eruption, exoplanets, Eyjafjallajökull, falcon 9, genome, graphene, gulf of mexico, hubble, insects, jupiter, kepler, lhc, marine life, microbes, moon, mosquitoes, multiverse, nasa, neanderthal, noaa, oceans, oil spill, renewables, roof, saturn, solar, solar system, synthetic, uc berkeley, universe, volcano, wormholes
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Tuesday, December 7th, 2010

Can Oriental hornets harness energy from the sun?
Tags: hornets, photosynthesis, solar, wasps
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Wednesday, October 6th, 2010

Surprisingly, reduced solar activity may actually cause warmer temperatures here on Earth.
Tags: activity, climate, cycle, solar, sunspot
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Friday, August 27th, 2010

The Mars Hoax, Solar Thermal, Caterpillar Munching and more: here are a few cool headlines you may have missed this week.
Tags: caterpillar, lizards, mars, moon, skink, solar, solar power, thermal
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Tuesday, August 24th, 2010

A new chlorophyll could hold the key for more efficient solar energy.
Tags: alternative energy, chlorophyll, cyanobacteria, energy, photosynthesis, solar, stramatolites
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