| Earth losing roughly 150 billion tons of ice to oceans annually Greenland, Antarctica and global glaciers and ice caps lost roughly 8 times the volume of Lake Erie from 2003-2010, a new study has revealed.
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| Google Earth helps keep tabs on exploitative fish farms Google Earth can be a powerful tool to keep tabs on a growing industry like ocean fish farming, given its tendency to exploit scarce resources and climate change, a study reveals.
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| Antarctica's underground lake could hold clues for life on other planets After more than two decades of drilling, Russian scientists have reached the pristine surface of a gigantic freshwater lake - Lake Vostok in Antarctica - which they believe could hold life from the... |
| Iranian satellite sends photos from Earth Navid satellite took pictures from Hormuz Strait and also from different parts of the Islamic Republic of Iran. For the second consecutive day, Navid satellite sent to stations the latest photos it... |
| Samsung can continue selling Galaxy tabs in Germany: court South Korea's Samsung Electronics can continue to sell its Galaxy Tab 10.1N tablet computer in Germany, a German court ruled Thursday, rejecting a bid by arch-rival Apple to have them banned. ... |
| Slash missions to Mars? No way, backers say WASHINGTON — Scientists say NASA is about to propose major cuts in its exploration of other planets, especially Mars. But even before the cuts are unveiled, lawmakers are vowing to fight... |
| Nasa to announce Mars mission cuts Scientists said Nasa is about to propose major cuts in its exploration of other planets, especially Mars.Nasa's former science chief is calling the plan irrational. With limited money for... |
| New Supercontinent Amasia to Form Over the Arctic Ocean? Photo: Nature.com - Supercontinent Amasia to take North Pole Scientists at Yale University have predicted the birth of an all-new supercontinent formed by the crashing of America and Eurasia into... |
| Budget Cuts May Force NASA to Quit ExoMars Mission; ESA May Partner with Russia to Save It NASA may be compelled to bow out of the European Space Agency-led ExoMars missions, which aim to launch an orbiter and a rover to the Red Planet, if the budget for the next fiscal year forces deep... |
| Romanian charged with hacking NASA computers LOS ANGELES -- A Romanian man accused of hacking into NASA computers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory near Los Angeles under the online moniker "Iceman" has been indicted on a federal... |
| Romanian accused of hacking NASA-JPL computers A federal grand jury has indicted a Romanian citizen on charges he hacked into 25 climate-research computers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in... |
| Scientists say NASA cutting missions to Mars WASHINGTON – Scientists say NASA is about to propose major cuts in its exploration of other planets, especially Mars. And NASA's former science chief is calling it irrational. With... |
| U.S. Government’s NOAA to Replace BlackBerrys With IPhones Feb. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Research In Motion Ltd. was dealt another setback as the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said it would supply employees with iPhones, the latest... |
| Hubble image captures puzzling star group U.S. astronomers say a distant galaxy puzzles them because it contains a high number of stars younger than their neighbors, which goes against current theory. The deep space object, captured in a... |
| NASA releases stunning timelapse pictures of solar storm hitting earth Houston: Spectacular new images of the Aurora Borealis, or Northern Lights, have been released by the US space agency NASA after their capture by a new time-lapse photographic technique.NASA has... |
| Big NASA Budget Cuts to Slash Mars Missions, Experts Say NASA's budget for the next fiscal year is likely to include deep cuts to planetary science programs, forcing the space agency to withdraw altogether from an international effort to send two new... |
| Watch Live Webcast from the Keck Observatory On Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012, Keck Observatory will be hosting a live webcast of an astronomy talk by Dr. Tom Soifer of Caltech, who is the Director of the Spitzer Science Center. The title of the talk... |
| The Moon Trees of Apollo 14 Apollo 14's splashdown in the Pacific on Feb. 9, 1971. (NASA/Ed Hengeveld) On this day in 1971 Apollo 14 astronauts Alan Shepard, Jr., Stuart Roosa and Edgar Mitchell returned to Earth,... |
| Join UT’s First Live Interview with Rover Driver Scott Maxwell Rover Driver Scott Maxwell with a model of MER. Photo courtesy Scott Maxwell How often have you wanted to be a fly on the wall during media interviews of top scientists and engineers? Here’s... |
| Yakutsk: Journey to the coldest city on earth Think our winter's been a bit grim? Try visiting Yakutsk - the Russian city where 'a bit nippy' means minus 50C, and a quick dash to the corner shop could end in frostbite. Shaun... |
| Nasa set to cut missions to Mars: scientists Scientists say Nasa is about to propose major cuts in its exploration of other planets, especially Mars. Nasa's former science chief is calling the plan irrational. With limited money for science and... |
| Mars Orbiter Photographs Old NASA Lander The U.S. space agency, NASA, says new images of the Martian surface shot with a high-resolution camera aboard its Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show the landing platform where the... |
| NASA to Slash Mars Missions in Big Budget Cuts, Experts Say NASA's budget for the next fiscal year is likely to include deep cuts to planetary science programs, forcing the space agency to withdraw altogether from an international effort to send two new... |
| Life on Moons: Antarctic Lake Shows How to Find It Russian scientists have drilled 13,000 feet below Antarctica to the Lake Vostok, sealed off to the world for at least 14 million years, and if life can be found there, it may be possible in similar... |
| Sun-Watching Spacecraft Sees 40,000 Solar Flares in 10 Years One of NASA's workhorse space observatories, the RHESSI satellite, is celebrating its tenth year in space on a prolific sun-monitoring mission that has recorded more than 40,000 X-ray solar... |
| Dead Spacecraft on Mars Spotted in New Photos Near the lower left corner of this view is the three-petal lander platform that NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit drove off in January 2004. The lander is still bright, but with a reddish... |
| Roger Boisjoly, Engineer Who Warned of Challenger Shuttle Disaster, Dies at 73 Roger Boisjoly, an aerospace engineer who warned that tragedy could result if NASA's space shuttle Challenger launched in cold weather, has died at the age of 73. Boisjoly's warnings... |
| Russians Drill Into Ancient Lake in Coldest Spot on Earth After decades drilling through more than two miles of ice in the coldest spot on Earth, Russian scientists announced this week that they reached their goal: a subglacial lake the size of Lake... |
| 3-D visors tested for use in space surgery Astronauts stuck on a space station or mission to Mars must treat illnesses or do surgery with their own hands, but not necessarily without some virtual help. A 3-D visor display being tested on... |
| Colbert provides laughs in NASA fan video Faux political pundit and TV funnyman Stephen Colbert recently expressed his love for space via a PSA video extolling the virtues of NASA. "NASA is doing great things at the International... |
| Janice Voss, Five-Time Astronaut Vet, Dies Janice Voss, former NASA astronaut and one of only six women to go into space five times, has died in Arizona, her alma mater Purdue University reported. Voss, 55, died Monday in Scottsdale where... |
| Stream the new album by Seattle's Earth "Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light II" is available for streaming below, the newest album by Seattle band/collective Earth. If you're looking to be transported to another reality,... |
| Amazing 3-D images show how earthquakes warp the Earth's surface Laser scans of the Earth's surface published in the journal Science reveal how earthquakes distort the planet's surface, showing exactly where the ground moved and by how... |
| NASA offering $1.5M in robot challenge Follow this company are offering $1.5 million in prizes to develop a robot that can locate and retrieve geological samples from a varied terrain without human control, FedScoop reported. ... |
| Nike Launching Space Sneakers for NBA Stars Three icons of professional basketball will don special space-themed sneakers when they take the court for the NBA All-Star Game in Orlando later this month. LeBron James, Kevin Durant, and Kobe... |
| Our Galaxy's Giant Black Hole May Munch on Asteroids The gigantic black hole at the heart of our Milky Way galaxy may be devouring asteroids on a daily basis, a new study suggests. For several years, NASA's Chandra spacecraft has detected X-ray... |
| New supercontinent in Earth's future The Earth's next supercontinent will form as North and South America fuse together and head for an eventual collision with Europe and Asia, U.S. scientists say. Researchers at Yale University... |
| Mystery of Britain's Largest Meteorite Solved With a weight that rivals a baby elephant, a meteorite that fell from space some 30,000 years ago is likely Britain's largest space rock. And after much sleuthing, researchers think they know... |
