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A Star's Age & Family Tree

A Star's Age & Family Tree

Oct 27 2009 | comment(s)

A new star is known: CoRoT-7. It is one of the 100,000 stars that were recorded by the COROT satellite in 1,000 days since the December 27, 2006 launch date. Congratulations!
 
Date: 16 Sep 2009
Depicts: Star field around CoRoT 7
Copyright: ESO/Digitized Sky Survey
 

A Star's Age & Family Tree

A Star's Age & Family Tree

Oct 27 2009 | comment(s)

A new star is known: CoRoT-7. It is one of the 100,000 stars that were recorded by the COROT satellite in 1,000 days since the December 27, 2006 launch date. Congratulations!
 
Date: 16 Sep 2009
Depicts: Star field around CoRoT 7
Copyright: ESO/Digitized Sky Survey
 

The Origin Of Global Warming By Means Of Molecular Selection

The Origin Of Global Warming By Means Of Molecular Selection

Oct 22 2009 | comment(s)

Sustainability stretches through greener chemistry. Imagine having a choice in designing environmentally friendly materials. This opportunity is presented in "Identifying the Molecular Origin of Global Warming" scheduled for the November 12's ACS Journal of Physical Chemistry. The approach taken by Partha Bera et al. seeks to explain how fundamental properties influence molecular absorption in the atmospheric window. What are the major factors that make some molecules more effective greenhouse gases (GHGs)?


 

People, Planet & Profit - Location Matters

People, Planet & Profit - Location Matters

Oct 20 2009 | comment(s)

Global climate reminds us it is one world afterall. NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center released the September temperatures. Separately, the combined global land and ocean surface temperature or the average land surface temperature proves September the second warmest on record, behind 2005. The former was 1.12 degrees F above the last century's average of 59.0 degrees F while the latter 1.75 degrees F above the last century's average of 53.6 degrees F. In addition, the global ocean surface temperature was tied for the fifth warmest on record for September. Most of the world’s land areas experienced higher-than-average temperatures.
First Fuel Cell Powered Aircraft Takes Off In Germany - Piloted!

First Fuel Cell Powered Aircraft Takes Off In Germany - Piloted!

Oct 19 2009 | comment(s)

Antares DLR-H2 of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) became, on 7 July 2009, the world's first piloted aircraft to take off on power from fuel cells. The propulsion system of this aircraft was developed at the DLR Institute for Technical Thermodynamics in partnership with Lange Aviation, BASF Fuel Cells, and Serenergy (Denmark).   
 
On The Urban Origin Of Global Greenhouse Gases

On The Urban Origin Of Global Greenhouse Gases

Oct 18 2009 | comment(s)

Countries vary across the globe in releases of greenhouse gases (GHG). For example, eight countries -- USA (23.5), Canada (22.6), Czech Republic (13.7), UK (10.6), Spain (10.1), Switzerland (7.3), South Africa (9.0), and Thailand (5.6) -- released in 2005 their portion of per capita carbon dioxide emissions in metric tons as shown inside the parentheses. The data are from the World Resource Institute and exclude bunker-fuel emissions and land-use change. Just USA, EU, Canada, Czech Republic, Switzerland, South Africa, and Thailand contributed on the same basis 43.4% of the total global emissions in 2006 per U.S. Department of Energy.