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Nothing like the sun
09-10-2007 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)Corey Fucetola, graduate student in electrical engineering and computer science, gave a tour of Solar7, MIT's entry in this year's US Department of Energy Solar Decathlon, to President Susan Hockfield and her daughter Elizabeth Byrne.
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- Something new under the Sun
01-30-2007 · EurekAlert!
That plants grow better if grown in a greenhouse in the correct climate is nothing new. Dutch researcher Rachel van Ooteghem has designed a control system for an improved solar greenhouse that yields more. In the new greenhouse, good climate control with sustainable energy resulted not only in an increased crop yield but also a lower gas bill.
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- First demonstration of a working invisibility cloak
10-19-2006 · EurekAlert!
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- Watching How Planets Form: Anatomy Of A Planet-forming Disc Around A Star More Massive Than The Sun
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- Cloudy day won't rain on laser communications
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- The sun may have a dimmer switch
01-24-2007 · EurekAlert!
The sun may have a dimmer switch at its core that causes its brightness to oscillate in timescales of around 100,000 years -- exactly the same period between ice ages on Earth. This is according to a physicist from Virginia, US, who has modeled the effect of temperature fluctuations at the sun's interior. In the standard view, the temperature of the sun's core is held constant.
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02-19-2007 · EurekAlert!
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04-23-2007 · EurekAlert!
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- Planet orbiting a giant red star discovered with hobby-eberly telescope
08-02-2007 · EurekAlert!
A planet orbiting a giant red star has been discovered by an astronomy team led by Penn State's Alex Wolszczan, who in 1992 discovered the first planets ever found outside our solar system. The new discovery is helping astronomers to understand what will happen to the planets in our solar system when our Sun becomes a red-giant star, expanding so much that its surface will reach as far as Earth's orbit.
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