WISE finds fewer brown dwarfs close to home than previously thought

June 19, 2012

Recently, NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, has been turning up a new crowd of stars close to home: the coldest of the brown dwarf family of "failed" stars.Now, just as scientists are "meeting and greeting" the new neighbors, WISE has a surprise in

Magnitude 6.0 earthquake struck near Aleutian Islands, Alaska

June 19, 2012

Shallow M6.o earthquake struck near Aleutian Islands, Alaska at 15:56 UTC on June 19, 2012. The epicenter was located 120 km (74 miles) WNW of Attu Station, Alaska (53.392°N, 171.635°E) at depth of 20.9 km (13.0 miles). according to USGS. EMSC recorded magnitude

Over 30 years of global soil moisture observations available to science community

June 19, 2012

The first remote-sensing soil moisture data record spanning the period 1978 to 2010 – a predecessor of the data now being provided by ESA’s SMOS mission. The datasets are available to the science community for feedback analyses and climate model validation.The

Shallow earthquake magnitude 5.2 hit near the southeast coast of Australia

June 19, 2012

Shallow earthquake with recorded magnitude of 5.2 hit near the southeast coast of Australia according to USGS. Epicenter was located 10 km (6 miles) SW of Moe, Australia (38.244°S, 146.194°E), 116 km (72 miles) from Melbourne city center. Recorded depth was 9.9

South African innovator Ludwick Marishane takes water out of bathing

June 19, 2012

After a few months of research on the Internet, South African University of Cape Town student Ludwick Marishane has won global recognition for an invention that takes the water out of bathing.Marishane invented a product called DryBath, a clear gel applied to skin

Google transparency - new data shows increase in link removal requests

June 19, 2012

What we’ve seen over the past couple years has been troubling, and today is no different. When we started releasing this data in 2010, we also added annotations with some of the more interesting stories behind the numbers. We noticed that government agencies from