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NASA resurrects planet-hunting Kepler, replaces broken parts with magical Sun power
2013-11-27 21:30:21| Extremetech
Over the past year, we've told the sad story of NASA's Kepler space observatory, and how the failure of two vital components have resulted in the sad and premature retirement of humanity's best tool for spotting Earth-like planets elsewhere in the universe. Just when all hope seemed lost, though, NASA has approved an ingenious plan to bring Kepler back online -- a novel, never-before-seen technique that uses the Sun's constant bombarding of photons upon Kepler's solar panels to keep the telescope pointed in the right direction.
Magical climate contrarian thinking debunked by real science
2013-09-23 06:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: One of the most important concepts to understand when trying to grasp how the Earth's climate works, is that every climate change must have a physical cause. This principle was the basis of our new paper, Nuccitelli et al. (2013). Over the past century, climate scientists have developed a solid understanding about how the climate works and the physical mechanisms that cause it to change. By building that knowledge into complex climate models, scientists have been able to accurately reproduce past...
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Mattel's Future May Be Magical
2013-06-06 00:07:32| Toys - Topix.net
At the age of five my son loves Disney Pixar's Cars . Every time we go to the store we have to stop by the toy section and look for the one car he wants, Rip Clutchgoneski.
Apple's iPad, 3 years in: Magical? Some beg to differ
2013-04-04 06:05:04| CNET News.com
Apple's iPad was released three years ago today. Needless to say, there have been plenty of detractors over the last three years. [Read more]
SimCity Is More Magical Than Mundane
2013-03-22 13:00:00| TechNewsWorld
The latest version of the long-running SimCity was a long time coming, and when it finally arrived, server issues kept many gamers from getting to the good stuff. It's been nearly a decade since the release of SimCity 4, and now the fifth version -- titled simply SimCity -- is offering gamers the chance to once again build the city of their dreams.
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