Gardeners Warning: Water Drops on Plants Magnify Sun Rays Burn Leaves

Posted by Scientific Innovation on January 10, 2010 at 4:15 pm

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Water droplets on plants can magnify the sun’s rays and burn leaves. Lots of gardeners reaffirms that people should not water in the midday since Water Drops Magnify Sunlight and Burn Leaves. But the idea has never been rigorously tested, until now.

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IPhone Apple Store astonishes everone with their runaway success milestone

Posted by Scientific Innovation on December 21, 2009 at 6:54 pm

The success of the App Store is due to a sort of positive feedback loop among developers and users, App Store success most times what Apple likely expected, The success of the iPhone App Store surprised everyone, even Apple itself.

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Live Poll: we're not emerging into a world without Microsoft

Posted by Scientific Innovation on December 21, 2009 at 6:39 pm

Microsoft’s successes in 2009, Windows 7 being the biggest among them, have helped take the focus away from Vista as a roadblock to evolution. And Microsoft’s biggest failure in 2009 — the lack of a new Windows Mobile — has helped turn consumers’ attention toward Google as the biggest perceived threat to Apple’s iPhone in the mobile space.

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Microsoft did ten wrong things in 2009

Posted by Scientific Innovation on December 21, 2009 at 5:29 pm

Some days ago, I told people that “10 things Microsoft did right in 2009.” At first, I planned to post the did-wrong list tomorrow. But think of today’s news about Microsoft’s friendly chief financial officer, Chris Liddell, I changed my idear. Liddell’s departure is one of the wrong things Microsoft did in 2009 (He will become CFO at GM).

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Texting drivering has more risk than talking

Posted by Scientific Innovation on December 21, 2009 at 5:09 pm

Texting and driving are not related very well. But a new study by University of Utah researchers sheds light on why and finds that this activity is even more dangerous than talking on a cell phone while driving.

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As a green Santa for holiday gifts

Posted by Scientific Innovation on December 20, 2009 at 8:12 pm

someone want something green on Christmas, they always ask for some money. But some people think getting gifts are not good for the planet as well as our lifestyles.

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U.N. climate meeting end with lower output

Posted by Scientific Innovation on December 20, 2009 at 6:59 pm

COPENHAGEN–U.N. climate talks finished with a bare-minimum agreement on Saturday when delegates “noted” an accord struck by the United States, China, and other emerging powers that falls far short of the conference’s original goals.

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NASA to build spacesuits for revived lunar exploration program

Posted by Iflove Science on August 6, 2009 at 11:12 pm

NASA to build spacesuits for revived lunar exploration program
NASA taps Oceaneering to build spacesuits for moon – NASA has turned to a new lead contractor to build spacesuits for its revived lunar exploration program that aims to land astronauts on the moon again by 2020, officials said on Thursday.
Oceaneering International Inc of Houston defeated a [...]

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Space Tour: $30 million Purchases Austin resident a ride on Soyuz mission

Posted by Iflove Science on October 11, 2008 at 3:25 am

Space Travel: $30 million buys Austin resident a ride on Soyuz mission. An Austin space tourist will blast off early Sunday with an American astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for a voyage to the international space station.
Richard Garriott, 47, who made a fortune designing computer games, and the two [...]

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Space Travel: Russia Leads Way in Space Tourism With Paid Trips Into Orbit

Posted by Iflove Science on October 11, 2008 at 2:13 am

Space Travel: Russia Leads Way in Space Tourism With Paid Trips Into Orbit. Space is for sale. Game developer Richard Garriot, who is scheduled to travel on a Soyuz rocket on Sunday, spoke at a news conference in June in New York.
While NASA looks ahead toward five years without shuttle flights and struggles to develop [...]

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