The Department of Water and Power (DWP) San Fernando Valley Generating Station is seen in Sun Valley, California, 2008. Climate change is “largely irreversible” for the next 1,000 years even if carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions could be abruptly halted, according to a new study led by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).…Posts Tagged ‘Yahoo News’
Global Warming 'Irreversible' For Next 1000 Years: Study
January 28th, 2009 
Tushar Mathur The Department of Water and Power (DWP) San Fernando Valley Generating Station is seen in Sun Valley, California, 2008. Climate change is “largely irreversible” for the next 1,000 years even if carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions could be abruptly halted, according to a new study led by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).…
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January 21st, 2009 Malvika Sampat 
From Yahoo News/Space.com:
Moon rocks delivered to Earth by Apollo astronauts held a mystery that has plagued scientists since the 1970s: Why were the lunar rocks magnetic?
Earth’s rotating, iron core produces the planet’s magnetic field. But the moon does not have such a setup.
Now, scientists at MIT think they have a solution.…
Posted in Science News Tags: 1970s, Apollo Astronauts, Dynamo, Earth Core, Earth S Core, Iron Core, Liquid Core, Lunar Rocks, Magnetic Field, Magnetism, Moon Rocks, Mystery, Scientists, Space Rocks, Yahoo, Yahoo News Comments OffHeavy Rains Damage Peru's Nazca Lines
January 20th, 2009 Tushar Mathur 
From Yahoo News/AP:
LIMA, Peru – Heavy rains have damaged part of one of Peru’s top tourist destination, depositing clay and sand on mysterious figures etched in the desert sand by indigenous groups centuries ago, an archaeologist said Monday.
The rains, which are uncommon on Peru’s dry coastal desert, washed off the nearby Panamerican highway and pushed sand on top of three fingers of a geoglyph in the famed Nazca lines, said Mario Olaechea of Peru’s National Culture Institute.…
Posted in Science News Tags: Archaeologist, Centuries, Coastal Desert, Culture Institute, Desert Sand, Geoglyph, Heavy Rains, Indigenous Groups, Lima Peru, Mario, Mysterious Figures, National Culture, Nazca Lines, Pair Of Hands, Panamerican Highway, Peru Culture, Peru News, Three Fingers, Tourist Destination, Yahoo News Comments OffSaturday Night Special: Biggest Full Moon of 2009
January 10th, 2009 Malvika Sampat 
From Yahoo News/Space:
If skies are clear Saturday, go out at sunset and look for the giant moon rising in the east. It will be the biggest and brightest one of 2009, sure to wow even seasoned observers.
Earth, the moon and the sun are all bound together by gravity, which keeps us going around the sun and keeps the moon going around us as it goes through phases.…
Posted in Science News Tags: Apparent Size, Closest Point, Earth Moon, Earth Sun, Full Moon, Full Moons, Giant Moon, Gravity, Moon And The Sun, Nasa, Observers, Orbit, Perfect Circle, Phases Moon, Saturday Night, Sky, Sunset, Wow, Yahoo, Yahoo News Comments OffU.S. Scientists Learn How To Levitate Tiny Objects
January 8th, 2009 Malvika Sampat 
Photo: An artist’s rendition shows how the repulsive Casimir-Lifshitz force between suitable materials in a fluid can be used to quantum mechanically levitate a small object of density greater than the liquid. (Courtesy of the lab of Federico Capasso, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences/Handout/Reuters)
From Yahoo News/Reuters:
CHICAGO (Reuters) – U.S.…
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December 30th, 2008 Tushar Mathur 
Policemen in Seattle wearing masks made by the Red Cross, during the influenza epidemic in a National Archives photo dated December 1918. (National Archives/Handout/Reuters)From Yahoo News/Reuters:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Researchers have found out what made the 1918 flu pandemic so deadly — a group of three genes that lets the virus invade the lungs and cause pneumonia.…
Posted in Science News Tags: 1918 Influenza, Cause Pneumonia, Ferrets, Flu Drugs, Flu Pandemic, Influenza, Influenza Epidemic, Influenza Strain, Kobe, Mutations, National Academy Of Sciences, National Archives, National Archives Photo, Pneumonia, Policemen, Proceedings Of The National Academy, Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences, Reuters Washington, Wearing Masks, Yahoo News Comments OffNatural Disasters 'Killed Over 220,000' In 2008
December 29th, 2008 Tushar Mathur 
From Yahoo News/AFP:
BERLIN (AFP) – Natural disasters killed over 220,000 people in 2008, making it one of the most devastating years on record and underlining the need for a global climate deal, the world’s number two reinsurer said Monday.
Although the number of natural disasters was lower than in 2007, the catastrophes that occurred proved to be more destructive in terms of the number of victims and the financial cost of the damage caused, Germany-based Munich Re said in its annual assessment.…
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December 29th, 2008 Malvika Sampat 
From Yahoo News/Space:
Wait a second. The start of next year will be delayed by circumstances beyond everyone’s control. Time will stand still for one second on New Year’s Eve, as we ring in the New Year on that Wednesday night. As a result, you’ll have an extra second to celebrate because a “Leap Second” will be added to 2008 to let a lagging Earth catch up to super-accurate clocks.…
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December 26th, 2008 Malvika Sampat 
Artist’s rendition released by NASA shows an asteroid belt in orbit around a star. Between 500 and 1,000 massive asteroids cross the Earth’s path regularly and any one of them could cause a global catastrophe, space experts warned Tuesday, urging quick preventive measures. (AFP/NASA-HO/File)From Yahoo News/McClatchy:
WASHINGTON — A blue-ribbon panel of scientists is trying to determine the best way to detect and ward off any wandering space rocks that might be on a collision course with Earth.…
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December 20th, 2008 Tushar Mathur 
In this Oct. 17, 2007 file photo, John Holdren, professor of Environmental Science and Public Policy in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University, speaks at the Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy presentations in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, File)From Yahoo News/AP:
WASHINGTON – President-elect Barack Obama’s selection Saturday of a Harvard physicist and a marine biologist for science posts is a sign he plans a more aggressive response to global warming than did the Bush administration.…
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