December 7, 2010 — On Dec. 6, 2010, NASA for the first time successfully ejected a nanosatellite from a free-flying microsatellite. NanoSail-D ejected from the Fast, Affordable, Science and Technology Satellite, ... > full story
Spontaneous Mutations Important Cause of Mental Retardation, Research Finds
December 7, 2010 — New research by Dutch geneticists demonstrates that spontaneous mutations are an important cause of mental retardation. The majority of mental retardation is caused by spontaneous mutations in ... > full story
Measuring Air-Sea Exchange of Carbon Dioxide in the Open Ocean
December 7, 2010 — Scientists have measured the air-sea exchange of carbon dioxide in the open ocean at higher wind speed then anyone else has ever managed. Their findings are important for understanding how ... > full story
Threshold Sea Surface Temperature for Hurricanes and Tropical Thunderstorms Is Rising
December 6, 2010 — Scientists have long known that atmospheric convection in the form of hurricanes and tropical ocean thunderstorms occurs when sea surface temperature (SST) rises above a threshold. So how do rising ... > full story
First Horned Dinosaur from South Korea Discovered
December 6, 2010 — Scientists have discovered a new horned dinosaur. The newly identified genus, Koreaceratops hwaseongensis, lived about 103 million years ago during the late Early Cretaceous period. The specimen is ... > full story
Stripes Are Back in Season on Jupiter
December 6, 2010 — New NASA images support findings that one of Jupiter's stripes that "disappeared" last spring is now showing signs of a comeback. These new observations will help scientists better understand the ... > full story
Northern Wildfires Threaten Runaway Climate Change, Study Reveals
December 6, 2010 — A new study reveals that fires in the Alaskan interior have become more severe in the last decade, resulting in more carbon being released than is being stored. About half the world's soil carbon is ... > full story
Satellite Tracking Campaign Tests European Abilities
December 6, 2010 — An experimental tracking campaign using European facilities is helping determine how well existing telescopes and radars can work together to observe objects in Earth orbit. The results will be used ... > full story
El Nino: Better Understanding of Long-Term Changes in Climate System
December 6, 2010 — Scientists have been studying long-term climate variability associated with El Nino. The researchers' goal is to help climatologists better understand this global climate phenomenon that happens ... > full story
Eutrophication Makes Toxic Cyanobacteria More Toxic
December 6, 2010 — Continued eutrophication of the Baltic Sea, combined with an ever thinner ozone layer, is favouing the toxic cyanobacterium Nodularia spumigena, reveals new ... > full story
Heat Helped Hasten Life's Beginnings on Earth, Research Suggests
December 5, 2010 — New research investigating the effect of temperature on extremely slow chemical reactions suggests that the time required for evolution on a warm earth is shorter than critics might ... > full story
Rivers Cut Deep Notches in the Alps' Broad Glacial Valleys
December 5, 2010 — New research shows that notches carved by rivers at the bottom of glacial valleys in the Swiss Alps survive from one glacial episode to the next, protected in part by the glaciers ... > full story
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