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Most Powerful Hurricanes on the Rise

Friday, January 22nd, 2010 - 17:53:46 - Ehud Rattner

Global warming could lead to fewer but more-intense storms. The number of major Atlantic hurricanes per year may almost double by the end of the...

Rethinking Space Weather
Thursday, January 21st, 2010 - Anuradha Menon
Whether it's showering spacecraft with lethal radiation, filling the sky with ghostly light, or causing electrical surges...

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Super-typhoons to Strike Japan

Friday, September 25th, 2009 - 12:52:39 - Anuradha Menon

Increasingly powerful "supertyphoons" will strike Japan if global warming continues to affect weather patterns in the western Pacific Ocean...

Saturn Lightning Storm Breaks Record

Wednesday, September 16th, 2009 - 09:01:42 - Anuradha Menon

A lightning storm has been raging on Saturn since mid-January, making the tempest the longest-lasting storm ever detected in our solar system...

Predicting Space Storms
Friday, June 19th, 2009 - Janice Karin
Researchers at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada have successfully predicted the epicenter of impact of an...

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Jupiter's Stormy Great Red Spot is Shrinking

Thursday, April 2nd, 2009 - 22:38:30 - Anuradha Menon

Everything about Jupiter is super-sized, including its colorful, turbulent atmosphere. But there's fresh evidence that one of the planet's most...

Leaks Found in Earth's Magnetic Shield

Thursday, December 18th, 2008 - 14:37:46 - Anuradha Menon

Earth's magnetic field, which shields our planet from particles streaming outward from the Sun, often develops two holes that allow the largest...

Science at the Center of the Storm

Thursday, December 18th, 2008 - 12:05:07 - Anuradha Menon

It was Sept. 7, 2008, six days before Hurricane Ike, the third most destructive hurricane in U.S. history, crashed into the Texas coast. Ike had...

How Vulnerable to Flooding Is New York City?

Sunday, August 3rd, 2008 - 12:02:50 - Ehud Rattner

A report just released in the most recent issue of the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society offers hope that a new high-resolution storm...

Building a Baby Earth

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008 - 12:34:23 - Ehud Rattner

The Earth's magnetic field is quite a mystery. How is it generated? How does it remain so stable? We have known of the Earth's magnetic field for...

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