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Feeling More Turbulence During Your Flights? Blame Climate Change
If you’re a frequent flyer who has experienced increasingly shaky flights, it’s not just your imagination. Turbulence has increased in the last few decades.
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The Best Sites Across Australia for New Wind and Solar Power Plants
Renewable energy’s share of Australia’s main electricity grid has more than doubled from 16% to 35% in five years, and the federal government wants this figure to reach 82% by 2030. Nearly all new power plants in Australia are solar and wind because these are the cheapest sources of electricity. Some of the extra solar…
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Data Recorder Malfunction Jeopardises 30-Year-Old NASA Probe
For the past 30 years, Geotail has been sailing through the magnetic envelope that surrounds Earth to study this region of our atmosphere. But the long-running mission may be coming to an end as NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency recently discovered that the spacecraft’s last remaining data recorder has failed.
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It’s Windy Enough on Venus and Pluto to Create Sand Dunes, if You’re Keen on Some Out-Of-This-World Chafing
What is it like to be on the surface of Mars or Venus? Or even further afield, such as on Pluto, or Saturn’s moon Titan? This curiosity has driven advances in space exploration since Sputnik 1 was launched 65 years ago. But we’re only beginning to scratch the surface of what is knowable about other…