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One of our Suns long-lost sister stars has finally been found, and shes pretty close by
2014-05-09 19:39:08| Extremetech
Astronomers at the University of Texas at Austin have done something rather remarkable: They've identified a nearby star that was birthed from the same cluster as our own Sun. If that wasn't cool enough, the lead author also says that -- because the Sun and this sibling star were once relatively close and may have bumped uglies -- there is a "small, but not zero" chance that planets orbiting this star could host extraterrestrial life.
MIT and Harvard team develop material that stores suns heat
2014-04-13 19:30:14| Green Car Congress
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Carbon nanotubes harvest the Suns energy as heat for better solar cells
2014-01-30 20:21:19| Extremetech
MIT researchers are on their way to capturing a wider spectrum of the sun's light and converting it to energy using carbon nanotubes and good old fashioned silicon.
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James Gosling grades Oracle's handling of Sun's technology
2014-01-13 12:00:00| InfoWorld: Top News
With the four-year anniversary of Oracle's Sun Microsystems acquisition looming, we reached out to Java founder James Gosling to rate how Oracle has done in shepherding Sun technology. Gosling gives Oracle eyebrow-raising grades, lauding Oracle's handling of Java, despite his past acrimony toward Oracle over Java, and giving Oracle a flat-out failing grade on what has become of Solaris OS.
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Solar Geoengineering: Weighing Costs of Blocking the Suns Rays
2014-01-09 15:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: In 1991, Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines erupted in one of the largest volcanic blasts of the 20th century. It spat up to 20 million tons of sulfur into the upper atmosphere, shielding the earth from the suns rays and causing global temperatures to drop by nearly half a degree Celsius in a single year. Thats more than half of the amount the planet has warmed Studies have shown that such a strategy would be powerful, feasible, fast-acting, and cheap. due to climate change in 130 years. Now...
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