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Asteroid capture program needs your help to prove were smarter than the dinosaurs
2013-06-18 21:16:26| Extremetech
The US government is planning a series of "Grand Challenges" to the public and the research sector of science, the latest of which involves keeping vigilant watch over our skies.
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Witness the birth of 'Jurassic Park' dinosaurs
2013-04-07 16:00:00| CNET News.com
How did special-effects whiz Stan Winston create the beasts of "Jurassic Park"? As moviegoers experience "Jurassic Park 3D" we reveal the inner workings of the dinosaurs in the film. [Read more]
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Renewables turn utilities into dinosaurs of the energy world
2013-03-09 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Every new solar panel installed on European rooftops chips away at power utilities' centralized production model. Unless they reinvent themselves soon, these giants risk becoming the dinosaurs of the energy market. The industry faces drastic change as renewable energy turns consumers into producers and hollows out the dominance of utilities. With their stocks at decade lows and a millstone of debt around their necks, Europe's utilities have little margin for error. In Germany, where 22 percent...
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Finally confirmed: An asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs
2013-02-08 14:16:39| Extremetech
A team of American and European researchers have confirmed that the CretaceousPaleogene extinction -- the event that wiped out roughly 75% of the planet's species, including almost every dinosaur -- was caused by an asteroid impact in Mexico 66 million years ago. The CretaceousPaleogene extinction was the last great extinction event to occur on Earth, and is most notable for causing the diversification of mammals that eventually resulted in Homo sapiens.
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Asteroid may have killed dinosaurs quicker than scientists thought
2013-02-08 00:26:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Dinosaurs died off about 33,000 years after an asteroid hit the Earth, much sooner than scientists had believed, and the asteroid may not have been the sole cause of extinction, according to a study released Thursday. Earth's climate may have been at a tipping point when a massive asteroid smashed into what is now Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula and triggered cooling temperatures that wiped out the dinosaurs, researchers said. The time between the asteroid's arrival, marked by a 110-mile-(180-km-)wide...
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