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Technology Review: Blogs: arXiv blog: Why ET's genetic code could be just like oursWhy ET's genetic code could be just like ours A new thermodynamic analysis suggests that 10 of life's 20 amino acids must be common throughout the cosmos One of the great outstanding questions in biology involves the evolution of the genetic code and the fact it relies on 20 amino acids. ...
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Photo: "Hidden" Planet Found in Old Hubble ImagePhoto: "Hidden" Planet Found in Old Hubble Image A new technique stripped away starlight in a 1998 Hubble Space Telescope image (inset) to reveal the earliest known picture of a planet orbiting the distant star HR 8799, astronomers announced in April 2009. The gas giant planet, seen above ...
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The Day The Sun Brought DarknessThe Day The Sun Brought Darkness ScienceDaily (Mar. 16, 2009) — On March 13, 1989 the entire province of Quebec, Canada suffered an electrical power blackout. Hundreds of blackouts occur in some part of North America every year. The Quebec Blackout was different, because this one was caused ...
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Earthgrazer: The Great Daylight Fireball of 1972Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2009 March 2 Earthgrazer: The Great Daylight Fireball of 1972 Credit & Copyright: James ...
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Scientists find meteor debris in CanadaScientists said Friday they had found remains of a meteor that illuminated the sky before falling to earth in western Canada earlier this month.
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Meteorite: 10-ton Rock Responsible For Fireball In Western CanadaInvestigation of the fireball that lit up the skies of Alberta and Saskatchewan on Nov. 20 has determined that an asteroid fragment weighing approximately 10 tons entered the Earth's atmosphere over the prairie provinces last Thursday evening.
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Solar storms affecting US Electricity GridThe 23rd Cycle - Chapter 4 - Describes in detail the state of the US power grid, and the forces which are driving it to be far more vulnerable to solar storms than at any time in the past."As North America has evolved into a unified power-sharing network of regions, each buying and selling a ...
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NASA Begins Hunt for New Meteor ShowersDuring the dark hours before dawn on Sept. 9, 2008, a surprising flurry of meteors had showered the skies above Huntsville, Alabama. More than two dozen of them were fireballs brighter than Jupiter or Venus; a few even cast shadows. Cooke like everyone else he knew was sound asleep and saw nothing. ...
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SPACE.com -- Meteor 'Fireball' Caught on VideoThe meteor was spotted by the University of Western Ontario's network of all-sky cameras in southern Ontario that scan the sky for meteors. On Wednesday, Oct. 15 at 5:28 a.m. EDT (0928 GMT) seven of the cameras recorded a bright, slow fireball in the predawn sky. The astronomers of the ...
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New Comet Discovered By Canadian AstronomerRob Cardinal was looking for an asteroid, but ended up finding a comet. There is not much known yet about the Cardinal comet. Scientists are trying to determine more information about its orbit, whether its passing by Earth is periodic or whether it will only come by the sun once, which would ...
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