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Vijay Modi: Shared Solar power grids brings electricity to isolated African villages
A project called Shared Solar and headed by Vijay Modi has brought cheap electricity to about 20 isolated and poor villages in Uganda and Mali.
July 19, 2012
Pioneer anomaly source is heat
The unexpected slowing of NASA's Pioneer 10 and 11 spacecraft turns out to be due to the slight, but detectable effect of heat pushing back on the spacecraft.
July 18, 2012
Ice island twice the size of Manhattan breaks off Greenland glacier
An ice island twice the size of Manhattan broke off Greenland’s Petermann Glacier. It's about half as big as the one that broke off the same glacier in 2010.
July 18, 2012
Giant dinosaurs eating habits revealed
High-tech technology, traditionally usually used to design racing cars and aeroplanes, has helped researchers to understand how plant-eating giant dinosaurs fed 150 million years ago.
July 17, 2012
Weight loss today keeps the doctor away
Statistics show that today, almost one in four Canadians is obese. A deadly trend that has been on the rise for the last thirty years, but weight loss can help.
July 16, 2012
Higgs boson and how the universe generates mass
Physicists have discovered a new elementary particle. They’re 99 percent certain it's the long-sought Higgs boson, which some call "The God Particle."
July 16, 2012
Global warming harms lakes
Global warming also affects lakes. The warmer temperatures are compromising the successful lake clean-ups of recent decades.
July 16, 2012
Antarctica at risk from global warming
The continent of Antarctica is at risk from human activities and other forces, and environmental management is needed to protect the planet’s wilderness area.
July 13, 2012
Jupiter, Saturn and Venus might have lightning sprites, too
Lightning sprites on alien worlds like Jupiter, Saturn and Venus. Cool!
July 13, 2012
Supernova up close via computer simulation
Each century, about two massive stars in our own galaxy explode, as supernova. These send fundamental, uncharged particles called neutrinos in to space.
July 12, 2012
