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Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Scientific Minds Want To Know

Scientific Minds Want To Know

NASA counts down the end of an era

With Discovery's launch, the U.S. space program moves closer to an uncertain future filled with risk.
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Night skies suited dino-bird's eyes

The eye sockets of the flying dinosaur Archaeopteryx were similar to those of today's nocturnal birds
Fossil fragments reveal a predatory Velociraptor caught in the act of eating another larger plant-eating dinosaur.

Earth struck by most powerful space storm in three years

The most powerful geomagnetic storm to hit Earth since December 2006 arrived on Monday, a day earlier than expected.
zackenberg greenland photo
Sites in Canada, Norway, and Greenland (here) were examined. Photo: Museum of Natural History and Archaeology, Trondheim via flickr.
Most of the time when the words 'thawing permafrost' and 'greenhouse gas' appear in a headline together it naturally leads to talking about methane, but not this time. Reuters reports that new research shows how another greenhouse gas is getting released as the Arctic warms: Nitrous oxide.
Article continues: Thawing Permafrost Releasing Another Overlooked Greenhouse Gas

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