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Ozone: Friend or Foe?

Sunday, April 27th, 2008 - 19:07:19 - Ehud Rattner

The ozone layer protects all life on Earth, but it's frustrating scientists' attempts to curb global warming. Take geoengineering: Researchers have...

New Views On The Sun's Magnetic Fountains

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008 - 12:56:07 - Ehud Rattner

Astronomers have known for decades that the Sun has a very dynamic atmosphere. Huge fountains of hot gas erupt in the atmosphere, or corona, every...

Future Cars May Save Gas But Waste Water

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008 - 20:12:00 - Ehud Rattner

Efforts to wean America's automobiles off gasoline are running into the law of unintended consequences. Methanol wears out engine components, and...

Physicists Store and Retrieve... Nothing

Sunday, March 2nd, 2008 - 12:56:29 - Sarah Gingichashvili

It sounds like a headline from the spoof newspaper The Onion, but for physicists, this is actually an achievement: Two teams have stored nothing in a...

U.S. toTry Shoot Down Satellite Tonight

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008 - 08:00:09 - Iddo Genuth

The U.S. Navy plans to take a shot Wednesday at destroying a faltering spy satellite before it can tumble to Earth and -- possibly - release a cloud...

Hubble Captures Merging Galaxies
Wednesday, October 18th, 2006 - Iddo Genuth
This new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of the Antennae Galaxies, named for their antenna- or tail-like appendages, is...