Small asteroid HEADED FOR EARTH !!!

"Small asteroid headed for light show over Africa"" WASHINGTON (AP) -- A small asteroid was headed for a fiery but harmless dive into Earth's atmosphere early Tuesday morning over Africa, astronomers said...

Fossil of earth's oldest footprints found

Holy footprints Batman!  570 million year old tracks of earth’s early legged walkers have been found in Nevada.  This pushes the advent of walking back 30 million years.  It is believed that land...

Invention special: Green technology

Green inventions to get us off oil, produce clean electricity and fuel, power your iPod by banging your head, and more"As the evidence that humans have altered the Earth's climate and environment for the worst...

Solar Cell Sets World Efficiency Record At 40.8 Percent

It's an "inverted metamorphic triple-junction solar cell". Advances in solar are going the way of computer processor speed and storage and many other information technologies; increasing power, speed and efficiency, decreasing cost, space, waste.Solar Power to Rule in 20...

Hydrogen Based Life

Some people believe there must be something out there, some other life out in space somewhere. People that have claimed to have been abducted by aliens report smelling a strong odour of rotten eggs. Hydrogen Sulfide smells like rotten eggs. ...

Soviet tree slogans visible on Google Earth

Google Earth has picked up messages - Soviet slogans planted as trees in the 60's and 70's. The slogan's have only been visible to pilots and space travelers until now. What messages one wonders would our...

Clean up the World weekend

For the first time, communities around the world that are taking action this weekend to help protect the environment as part of Clean up the World Weekend, will be able to map their activities out on Google...

'Live Earth' Climate Change Concert Heads To India

There's one main reason that Live Earth is only being held in India this year: Tata Nano -- the world's cheapest car. China might be the world's biggest producer of CO2 emissions, but the release of the $2,500...

Iranian earthquake tremor hits Dubai

A tremor from an Iranian earthquake could be felt in Dubai today, however it was still small enough that not everyone in the country felt it."UAE authorities are now said to be contacting the US Geological Survey...

Large Hadron Collider is activated

Scientists have switched on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the device they hope will unravel some of the remaining mysteries of the universe. At 9.30 am local time (8.30 am British Summer Time), 300 feet below...

Wind of change on farms as cows help to save the Earth

Some cattle in Britain are going to be part of an experiment. They are being given a new diet to reduce their burping and cut emissions of greenhouse gases.They are being given chopped straw and hay to settle...

The alien Zlog and sidekick Asbo investigate ‘anti-consumerism’

Alien Zlog and his sidekick Asbo report back to their planet, Zorlich, on the terrible plight of robotic shoppers, known as people. From Eastenders to Knightsbridge, shopping for ‘stuff’ is out of fashion;...

Science paper examines role of aerosols in climate change

Scientists from the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) are putting forward a new way of looking at the effects of aerosols on precipitation."The increase in atmospheric concentrations of man-made...

7 years left to avoid global climate catastrophe

To the candidates - further proof that being all Talk and No action is going to result in remarkable climactic changes.  To those in the McCain Camp, please read the article about what Palin is supporting...

Earth's Atmosphere Losing a Few Oxygen Ions to Space. Plasma Cosmology Paper ...

One would like to think that modern science knows everything and understands all about near-Earth and deep space physical processes. But it's just not so. At least, it seems that papers explaining the actual...

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