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Plasma Flows May Shed Light on Predicting Sunspot Cycles
March 23, 2012 — A geophysics researcher wants to look inside the sun. More accurately, she wants to simulate the sun to study plasma flows associated with sunspot cycles. With the help of simulations scientists ... > full story -
Brown Liquor and Solar Cells to Provide Sustainable Electricity
March 22, 2012 — A breakthrough for inexpensive electricity from solar cells, and a massive investment in wind power, will mean a need to store energy in an intelligent way. According to new research batteries of ... > full story -
Super-Earth Unlikely Able to Transfer Life to Other Planets
March 20, 2012 — While scientists believe conditions suitable for life might exist on the so-called "super-Earth" in the Gliese 581 system, it's unlikely to be transferred to other planets within that solar ... > full story -
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Focus on Technology Overlooks Human Behavior When Addressing Climate Change
March 19, 2012 — Technology alone won't help the world turn away from fossil fuel-based energy sources, says a sociologist. A shift in political and economic policies to is needed to embrace the concept that ... > full story -
Some Orbits More Popular Than Others in Planetary Systems
March 19, 2012 — Computer simulations have revealed a plausible explanation for a phenomenon that has puzzled astronomers: Rather than occupying orbits at regular distances from a star, giant gas planets similar to ... > full story -
Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells That Use Carbon Nanotube Thin Films as Transparent Electrodes Offer Significant Cost Savings
March 14, 2012 — Dye-sensitized solar cells that use carbon nanotube thin films as transparent electrodes offer significant cost ... > full story -
NASA's Goddard, Glenn Centers Look to Lift Space Astronomy out of the Fog
March 13, 2012 — A fogbank is the least useful location for a telescope, yet today's space observatories effectively operate inside one. That's because Venus, Earth and Mars orbit within a vast dust cloud produced by ... > full story -
Large Solar Flares Generate Geomagnetic Storm
March 8, 2012 — A pair of unusually large solar flares early March 7, 2012 generated a Coronal Mass Ejection that was expected to reach Earth around mid-day March 8. It will likely cause at least a strong ... > full story -
NASA Sees Second Biggest Flare of the Solar Cycle
March 7, 2012 — The leading edge of the first of two major coronal mass ejections will reach Earth at about 1:25 AM EST on the morning of March 8 (plus or minus 7 hours). Such a CME could result in a severe ... > full story -
Analyses of a Tiny Comet Grain Dates Jupiter's Formation
March 1, 2012 — Particles from comet 81P/Wild 2 brought to Earth in 2006 by NASA's Stardust spacecraft indicate that Jupiter formed more than three million years after the formation of the first solids in our Solar ... > full story
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