US agrees to environmental review of offshore oil fracking
The federal government has agreed to stop approving oil fracking off the California coast until it studies whether the practice is safe for the environment.
Environment
Jan 29, 2016
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NASA engineers tapped to build first integrated-photonics modem
A NASA team has been tapped to build a new type of communications modem that will employ an emerging, potentially revolutionary technology that could transform everything from telecommunications, medical imaging, advanced ...
Space Exploration
Jan 29, 2016
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Phase of the moon affects amount of rainfall
When the moon is high in the sky, it creates bulges in the planet's atmosphere that creates imperceptible changes in the amount of rain that falls below.
Space Exploration
Jan 29, 2016
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Nanosheet growth technique could revolutionize nanomaterial production
After six years of painstaking effort, a group of University of Wisconsin-Madison materials scientists believe the tiny sheets of the semiconductor zinc oxide they're growing could have huge implications for the future of ...
Nanomaterials
Jan 29, 2016
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Understanding the magnetic sun
The surface of the sun writhes and dances. Far from the still, whitish-yellow disk it appears to be from the ground, the sun sports twisting, towering loops and swirling cyclones that reach into the solar upper atmosphere, ...
Space Exploration
Jan 29, 2016
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Apple quietly working on virtual reality: report
Apple has a team secretly working on virtual and augmented reality gear in a budding challenge to Facebook-owned Oculus Rift and Microsoft HoloLens, the Financial Times reported on Friday.
Hi Tech & Innovation
Jan 29, 2016
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Image: Pluto's widespread water ice
Data from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft point to more prevalent water ice on Pluto's surface than previously thought.
Space Exploration
Jan 29, 2016
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Image: Pluto's blue atmosphere in the infrared
This image from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is the first look at Pluto's atmosphere in infrared wavelengths, and the first image of the atmosphere made with data from the New Horizons Ralph/Linear Etalon Imaging Spectral ...
Space Exploration
Jan 29, 2016
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Syracuse geophysicist questions stability of Antarctic ice sheet
A professor in Syracuse University's College of Arts and Sciences is joining the growing debate over the fate of the world's largest ice sheet, whose sudden melting is sending shockwaves throughout the geophysics community.
Earth Sciences
Jan 29, 2016
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State Department declares 22 Clinton emails 'top secret' (Update)
The Obama administration has confirmed for the first time that Hillary Clinton's home server contained closely guarded government secrets, censoring 22 emails that contained material requiring one of the highest levels of ...
Security
Jan 29, 2016
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