NCAR researchers will discuss connections between hurricanes and climate and the influence of climate change on precipitation and drought. They will also look at the economic value of weather forecasting and the impact of severe weather on rocket launches and aviation.
Following are some key NCAR presentations ...
The ufologist said at a special press conference in Istanbul that a local resident, a watchman from one of cottage townships, managed to film an extraterrestrial spaceship and two aliens. The lucky man, named as Yalcin Yalman, presented his 22-minute video to reporters. The video can be found on YouTube ...
The first way astronomers find planets is with the radial velocity technique. This is where the gravity of a heavy planet yanks its parent star around so that the wobbling motion too and fro can be measured.
The second technique is through transits. This is where a planet dims the light coming from ...
Last April an international panel of solar experts forecast that Solar Cycle 24 would start in March 2008, plus or minus six months. Upcoming solar storms definitely lay ahead, but neither the NOAA Space Environment Center in coordination with an international panel of solar experts predict a record-breaker. ...
The Northern Lights were observed by NASA's Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms (THEMIS), a system of ground cameras and five orbiting micro-satellites that work in combination to observe the phenomenon better than with a single satellite. This allowed scientists to map ...
Advantages of Biofuel
Apart from the fact that bio fuels help us to keep the environment clean, they also help us to use the resources provided by nature in an effective way. They reduce our dependence on fossil fuels, which are fast depleting. As stated above they are not increasing the pollution ...
Numbers have crashed by up to half as their breeding ground is melting away at an alarming rate.
And conservation group WWF is warning we are in danger of seeing the last of the Emperors.
Scientists blame climate change, which has raised the surface temperature in their habitat from minus ...
One of the major risks of space travel are solar storms. These are flurries of particles blasted off the Sun at nearly the speed of light. They can arrive with almost no notice. As soon as an Earth-directed flare is seen on the surface of the Sun, the particles will arrive just minutes afterwards.
To ...
The fossil record contains fossils of only complete and fully-formed species. There are no fossils of partially-evolved species to indicate that a gradual process of evolution ever occurred. Even among evolutionists there are diametrically different interpretations and reconstructions of the fossils ...
As you probably know, the ozone layer is a region of the Earth's atmosphere that contains a high volume of ozone - the combination of three oxygen molecules. This ozone acts like a shield, protecting us from harmful ultraviolet radiation from the Sun. Over the last decade, the ozone layer has thinned ...