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Geotimes January 2006 Kathryn Hansen |
2005 Was Warmest Year on Record The record-breaking number of named storms during the 2005 hurricane season may have dominated weather news, but at the same time, another record was in the making: The year now stands as the warmest on record, according to some climatologists. |
Science News July 15, 2006 |
Science Safari: A Meteoroid Hits the Moon This NASA Web page describes observations of a recent meteoroid impact on the moon, which created a new crater. |
Geotimes October 2007 Carolyn Gramling |
Error in NASA Climate Data Sparks Debate Due to an error in calculations of mean U.S. temperatures, 1934, not 1998 as previously reported, is the hottest year on record in the United States. |
Scientific American August 2009 David Appell |
Stumbling Over Data: Mistakes Fuel Climate-Warming Skeptics Do minor errors erode public support on climate issues? |
AskMen.com |
Global Warming: Still On The Earth is still warming, not cooling as some global warming skeptics are claiming, according to an analysis of global temperatures by independent statistics experts. |
Geotimes August 2004 Naomi Lubick |
Slow Boat to a Small Planet For the first time in more than three decades, scientists are going to get a close-up view of Mercury, Earth's smallest neighbor and the rocky planet closest to the sun. |
Popular Mechanics March 2007 Jennifer Bogo |
NASA Mission Statement Q&A: Eyes on Earth Interview with a professor involved in a study to find out how Earth scientists view NASA's shifting priorities and how it may affect the study of the planet. |
Home Toys December 2003 |
Personal Weather Stations -- A Home Toy that "Works" Solar powered, wireless weather stations that "look good" and have a full range of Plug-and-Play OEM-approved and supported software drivers for most home automation control systems can be purchased for around $2,000. |
Home Toys April 2006 John Johnston |
Home Weather Station - Toy or Necessity A home weather station measures the ambient weather that defines a homeowner's microclimate. With that information and a connection to the Internet, various home automation systems can control some home functions in a near immediate response to changes in the weather. |
Popular Mechanics October 1, 2008 Andrew Moseman |
Newest Arctic Melt Record Leaves Scientists Scratching Heads There's good news and bad news when it comes to the amount of ice in the Arctic. |
Chemistry World November 18, 2009 Jon Cartwright |
NASA data point to icy moon Scientists operating NASA's LCROSS (lunar crater observation and sensing satellite) mission, part of which impacted the moon on live television last month, say that shadowy lunar craters almost certainly contain water ice. |
AskMen.com |
Water On The Moon NASA says a spacecraft that was intentionally crashed into the moon has turned up the best evidence yet of water. |
Geotimes December 2005 Kevin E. Trenberth |
A Warming World Climate change is with us; we cannot stop it, although we can slow it down. It behooves us therefore to track how and why the climate is changing. |
Fast Company April 2010 Damian Joseph |
What's Next: Solar Flares In February, NASA launched a satellite to measure solar activity. The goal: to one day predict the solar system's weather. |
IEEE Spectrum April 2007 Sandra Upson |
U.S. Earth-Sensing Satellites Left Out In the Cold The degree of precision needed to forecast hurricanes, and the future accuracy of climate modeling as well, may be in danger if recent trends in Earth-observing satellite programs persist. |
Scientific American August 2006 Mark Alpert |
Weather Gets Personal New devices can make forecasts for your own backyard. |
National Defense March 2009 Robert H. Williams |
Space Sensor Measures Serosol Impact On Climate NASA will soon be receiving a space-based system that should help scientists better understand the impact of aerosols on climate change and global warming |
Fast Company December 1, 2006 Chuck Salter |
An Inconvenient Business The Weather Channel's new Web site, One Degree, is a video-laden community devoted to educating visitors about climate change without getting mired in politics. |
Fast Company Neal Ungerleider |
NASA: We're Leaving The Space Station To The Private Sector Due to a combination of government budget cuts and declining costs for the private sector, private space companies have increasingly taken over space exploration and logistics for the U.S. |
The Motley Fool February 21, 2007 Dan Caplinger |
Make Money From Mother Nature Investors, to some extent, the weather has an effect on nearly every business. Weather futures make watching the latest forecasts much more interesting. |
Chemistry World September 30, 2011 Jon Cartwright |
Messenger Sheds Light on Mercury's Formation NASA's Messenger spacecraft is bringing new understanding to the question of how Mercury formed. The new information looks set to rewrite theories about the birth of the solar system's smallest planet. |
Food Processing July 2008 |
Rollout: Best New Products of July 2008 It's hot outside, but these cool new products don't know the difference. |
T.H.E. Journal November 2000 |
Around the World with a Canon Camcorder The Canon A1 Digital camcorder is used onboard the Space Shuttle, but space is not the only place where you can find scientists from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration using Canon photographic equipment... |
T.H.E. Journal January 6, 2010 Scott Aronowitz |
NASA Launches Student Site The National Aeronautics Space Administration has launched a Web site aimed specifically at teenagers that gives them access to current NASA spacecraft data, potentially taking school science projects to a new level. |
The Motley Fool December 20, 2006 Jack Uldrich |
Google's Latest Partnership Is Out of This World Mapping the moon is just the start of the company's partnership with NASA. Investors, take note. |
T.H.E. Journal November 9, 2009 Scott Aronowitz |
NASA Grant To Fund Online Professional Development for Climate Change Education PBS Teacherline has announced it has received a NASA Global Climate Change Education Grant to provide professional development courses and teaching resources to encourage the teaching of climate change topics in conjunction with science, technology, engineering, and math education. |
Geotimes June 2006 Margaret Anne Baker |
NASA Science: The Sick Man of Federal Research A key contributor to the Ottoman Empire's downfall was its leaders' resistance to changes and reform. The NRC report provides broad recommendations that NASA can follow to improve this disparity. Let's hope that the leaders of NASA remember their world history classes. |
Geotimes January 2004 Naomi Lubick |
Bush retools space program As the Mars rover Spirit prepares to drive off its platform tonight and into the martian terrain, President Bush prepared the United States to send humans to the red planet and beyond. |
Geotimes September 2006 Kathryn Hansen |
Opportunity Reaches Martian Crater Cameras aboard NASA's Mars rover Opportunity captured the vast expanse of Victoria crater. |
IEEE Spectrum April 2013 Jean Kumagai |
Protecting the Power Grid From Solar Storms New spacecraft will aid forecasts of space weather. |
Geotimes June 2004 Naomi Lubick |
To Mars and Beyond The President's Commission on the Moon, Mars and Beyond presented its recommendations to the administration Wednesday morning, on how to proceed with the president's sweeping plan for future space travel. |
Popular Mechanics September 24, 2009 Joe Pappalardo |
Water Found on Moon These images show a very young lunar crater on the side of the moon that faces away from Earth, as viewed by NASA's Moon Mineralogy Mapper on the Indian Space Research Organization's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft. |
Chemistry World December 21, 2015 Matthew Gunther |
Nasa show human impact on climate with air pollution maps Following the COP21 climate conference (21 st session of the Conference of Parties) in France, NASA has released a series of global satellite maps showing air pollution trends over the past decade. |
Scientific American July 2005 Mark Alpert |
Feeling the Pinch Voyager 1, now speeding out of the solar system after 28 years in space, is one of the NASA missions facing budget cuts, even though the craft is reporting remarkable discoveries. |
Geotimes July 2005 Megan Sever |
Making a Public Impact What the public observes or, better yet, captures on film both during the Deep Impact comet collision and in the weeks before and after, could prove useful to the team of NASA scientists trying to understand the comet and the effects of the impact. |
Popular Mechanics March 3, 2008 Brian Lisi |
Satellite Snaps Multiple Avalanches on Northern Cliffs of Mars NASA's long observation of the Red Planet has rarely sent home as stunning an in-progress geological change as this: not one, but four avalanches tumbling from the Martian north pole. |
D-Lib Jul/Aug 2004 Bonita Wilson |
Earth as Art The sample images downloaded from the collection that is at once a science site and a gallery of found art, demonstrate why the site has been a popular one: the images are stunningly beautiful. |
Popular Mechanics January 18, 2008 Jennifer Bogo |
Inside NASA's Mega Flyby of Mercury's Dark Side NASA's new Messenger spacecraft will conduct a full scientific investigation of Mercury's surface. |
Scientific American March 13, 2005 Mark Alpert |
Lunar Science NASA's plan to establish a permanent lunar base and use the program's technology to prepare a human mission to Mars hinges on a risky prediction: that astronauts will find water ice in a permanently shadowed crater basin at one of the moon's poles. |
Salon.com June 7, 2001 Amy Standen |
My own private space station Robert Bigelow has his funding priorities straight: Orbiting cruise ships and paranormal research... |
Popular Mechanics February 1, 2010 Michael Belfiore |
Human Space Flight Needn't Rely on NASA: Guest Analysis Is Obama's just-released NASA budget the "death march for the future of U.S. human space flight," as Senator Richard Shelby proclaims on his website today? Or is it in fact a new beginning for the space agency? |
IEEE Spectrum February 2009 James Oberg |
Commercial Communications Satellites for the Moon NASA wants a for-profit network to support lunar missions. |