2,654 source-backed science facts - each attributed to a named person and a number, linked to the original source. Page 26 of 27.
“said Michael Mellon of the University of Colorado in Boulder, a science team-member for both Phoenix and the HiRISE camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter which acquired the new data.”
“The lander looks smaller, and only a portion of the difference can be explained by accumulation of dust on the lander, which makes its surfaces less distinguishable from surrounding ground.”
“It was expected the panels would bend and buckle under the weight of many tens of kilos of ice.”
“Earlier on Monday, BP pledged $500m (£346m) to study the spill's impact on the environment.”
“The company says it will be Wednesday before it tries a so-called 'top kill' bid to plug the leak”
“A BP official said the bid - which comes more than a month after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded, killing 11 - stood a 60-70% chance of success.”
“He said if the 'top kill' failed there was a chance the flow of oil could temporarily be increased.”
“Meanwhile, the BBC's Paul Adams in Washington says the officials both repeated a now-familiar mantra: BP is responsible for the damage and the administration will maintain pressure on the oil company until the crisis is over.”
“This will be a key part of the process of restoration, and for improving the industry response capability for the future,”
“We are doing everything we can, everything I know,”
“Atlantis undocked from the upgraded and almost completed International Space Station (ISS) on Sunday, some 354km above the Indian Ocean. Only two more shuttle flights remain before the fleet is retired.”
“It is set to arrive at the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida at 0848 local time (1248 GMT) on Wednesday.”
“Atlantis spent a week flying jointly with the station, where it successfully installed a new 8t, 6m-long Russian Mini-Research Module 1 Rassvet (Dawn) packed with 1.5t of Nasa cargo.”
“The station's astronauts opened the new module on 20 May.”
“While out on three spacewalks, Atlantis mission specialists Steve Bowen, Michael Good and Garrett Reisman replaced six solar array batteries on the orbiting platform and installed a backup communications Ku-band antenna and a robot tool tr…”
“When Atlantis departed, the ISS was said to be 98% complete in terms of living space.”
“After 132 voyages, Nasa's orbiter fleet will only go into space twice more before the shuttle programme is discontinued.”
“Discovery's trip is planned for September and Endeavour is set to follow it in November.”
“Kotov, together with a flight engineer TJ Creamer and Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi, are shortly set to follow the Atlantis crew back to Earth after half a year in space. They will head to Kazakhstan's Baikonur Cosmodrome aboard a Soyu…”
“An earlier attempt to conduct a usual post-launch survey failed because of a snagged cable that restricted the motion of Atlantis' sensor system cameras. Mission specialist Stephen Bowen untangled the cord on one of the spacewalks on 19 Ma…”
“They will head to Kazakhstan's Baikonur Cosmodrome aboard a Soyuz TMA-17 capsule on 1 June.”
“The researchers say the planet, which is called Wasp-12b, may only have another 10 million years left before it is completely devoured.”
“It is so close to its star that it completes an orbit in 1.1 Earth days and is superheated to more than 1,500C.”
“Because of this proximity, the planet's atmosphere has ballooned to nearly three times the radius of Jupiter and is spilling material on to the star.”
“The exoplanet was first discovered by the UK's Wide Area Search for Planets (Wasp) in 2008.”
“Wasp-12 is a dwarf star located approximately 600 light-years away in the constellation Auriga.”
“The proposed expansion would add approximately 91,000 acres of solar evaporation ponds”
“GSL Minerals' expansion would result in more water being pumped from the lake, thus resulting in a 2-3 feet drop in water levels, according to the campaign group Friends of the Great Salt Lake.”
“Home energy use accounts for nearly one-third of Scotland's carbon emissions”
“Applicants must own their home, have a boiler which is G-rated for energy efficiency and have the new model installed within 12 weeks of applying.”
“Similar schemes have been running in England and Wales since the start of the year.”
“Home energy use accounts for nearly one-third of Scotland's carbon emissions, so it is essential that homeowners are given every opportunity to make their properties more energy efficient if Scotland is to play its part in tackling climate…”
“The researchers fitted tags, weighing 0.66g, to 91 Swainson's thrushes”
“they managed to gather data on the movements of 91 birds during the four-year study.”
“The study examined seven urban forests, the smallest of which was an arboretum that covered less than one hectare.”
“In five of the sites, the birds never left the forest patch... and were not exploring in folks' backyards.”
“The tags were very small, weighing an average of 0.66g, and we glued them to the back feathers of the birds using a very mild adhesive. The battery life only lasted a couple of weeks, so the transmitter just fell off after a short while.”
“Within migration, land birds spend up to 90% of their time resting and regaining energy at stopover sites, making habitat a key component”
“and managed to gather data on the movements of 91 birds during the four-year study.”
“up to 26m tonnes of fish, worth an estimated $23bn (£16bn), are landed illegally each year.”
“up to 26m tonnes of fish, worth an estimated $23bn (£16bn), are landed illegally each year”
“Eighty percent of the world's fish stocks are deemed to be fully or overexploited.”
“The vehicle left its pad at precisely 2158 GMT (0658 local time Friday).”
“Akatsuki will arrive at Venus in December.”
“The 53m-high rocket climbed south-east over the Pacific Ocean...”
“Surface pressure is about 90 times that on Earth. Several Soviet probes sent to Venus in the 1960s were crushed as they approached the surface. By studying this hostile world, scientists hope to understand better how a warming future on ou…”
“The probe will conduct joint observations with a European Space Agency craft - Venus Express - that arrived at the planet in 2006.”
“"On Venus, a high-speed wind called super-rotation is blowing all over the planet, in the direction of planetary rotation, with a velocity reaching 400km per hour at an altitude of around 60km from the surface," explained Dr Imamura.”
“In the coming days, this 320kg, 1.6m-wide, disc-shaped spacecraft will deploy an ultra-light membrane.”
“It was the H-IIA's second attempt at a launch. A previous effort earlier in the week was aborted because of a thick covering of cloud at the Tanegashima facility.”
“The H-IIA vehicle had a busy flight. It also deployed five piggy-back experiments, including a small satellite to practise the technique of sailing on sunlight.”
“BP had stuck by its first estimate that some 5,000 barrels, or 210,000 gallons, a day of oil was leaking from the well”
“despite claims from several experts the real figure was at least 10 times higher”
“BP has used a number of dispersants, all approved by the EPA, to try to break up the crude.”
“It emerged on Wednesday a small portion of the slick had entered the so-called Loop Current”
“The calf, called Got - or "glass" in Valencian - was born on Tuesday.”
“Got was born on a ranch in Palencia province and weighed 24.7kg”
“Mr Torrent, from the Valencia Veterinary Research Foundation, said it had taken his team three years to find a way to preserve what he called valuable bull genes.”
“The budget was 28,000 euros (£24,000), he told a news conference.”
“The technique is essentially the same as that used in 1996 to copy Dolly the sheep, the world's first cloned mammal.”
“Oil has been gushing out of the blown-out well for almost a month”
“A "small portion" of oil sheen is in the Loop Current”
“European scientists warn the spill could reach Florida within six days.”
“The Loop Current could carry the oil around Florida and into the Atlantic”
“the oil is a "light sheen" representing just a small portion of the overall amount”
“tests showed that tar balls that washed up on Florida beaches in recent days had not originated from the oil spill off Louisiana”
“Researchers found that nitric oxide (NO) emissions, a component in the formation of ozone, doubled in soils where the invasive kudzu was present.”
“The vines grow very rapidly - up to 26cm in 24 hours”
“The team said kudzu covered about three million hectares, and was expanding its reach by about 50,000 hectares each year.”
“Kudzu coverage in the southeastern US exceeds that of cultivated soybean, making it the dominant nitrogen-fixing plant in the region.”
“Using data collected from soil samples, the research team ran an extreme scenario - where kudzu covered all non-urban and non-agricultural soils in the species' range by 2050 - through a "chemical transport" model. The findings suggested t…”
“The semi-woody stems can extend to 30m in length.”
“Its network of deep roots, which make up more than half of the plant's biomass, makes it difficult to control with herbicides.”
“A 2007 report by the European Plant Protection Organization concluded. "The plant quickly develops, rapidly covering the soil, affecting indigenous plants and completely modifying the structure of the ecosystem."”
“Writing in the journal Nature in 2007, researchers found that concentrations of the greenhouse gas near the ground also damaged plants sensitive to the gas, reducing their effectiveness to absorb carbon dioxide.”
“Climate change could wipe out 20% of the world's lizard species by 2080, according to a global-scale study.”
“rising temperatures had already driven 12% of Mexico's lizard populations to extinction”
“lizards have already crossed a threshold for extinctions”
“the predictions were 'disturbing'”
“Lizard populations rise and fall over time and failure to detect individuals during short surveys may indicate transient rarity rather than extinction”
“climate-forced extinctions were not only in the future" but were "happening now”
“They say UK moth numbers have fallen by a third in the past 40 years.”
“There are now 17 species of bat in the UK, all of which are protected by law because their numbers have decreased so dramatically.”
“Butterfly Conservation and the Bat Conservation Trust are asking people to take part in a "National Moth Night" on 15 May to find out more about the creatures and their habitats.”
“While the IPCC admits to including an erroneous date by which Himalayan glaciers might disappear in its 2007 Fourth Assessment report, Dr Pachauri said: "We have not been effective at telling the public, 'yes, we made a mistake but that do…”
“Back in February, the IPCC suggested setting up an independent review, feeling that its 20-year-old rules and working practices perhaps needed an overhaul, and also feeling it was perhaps ill-equipped to counter the heat of unprecedented p…”
“Governments endorsed the idea; and in March, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon commissioned the review from the InterAcademy Council, an international umbrella body for science academies such as the UK's Royal Society.”
“The council established a 12-strong review panel, chaired by US economist Professor Harold Shapiro, a former advisor to both Presidents George Bush and Bill Clinton.”
“The panel, which comprises eminent scientists and economists from both the developed and developing worlds including Nobel prize-winning ozone chemist Mario Molina, has until the end of August to prepare its report.”
“Its conclusions will be peer-reviewed before being presented at the IPCC's October meeting, the point at which Dr Pachauri and his team are due to finalise plans for the fifth assessment report, due in 2013.”
“one race of the Fun Race does less harm than ten people walking in the Roraima national park”
“The field study, carried out during 2006, showed that 74.4% of seeds were buried during the wet season, compared with just 38.2% during the dry season.”
“Up to 25 seeds, what we call Brazil nuts, are contained in the trees' fruit”
“"Seeds not consumed within the germination period (12-18 months) may germinate, and seeds may remain viable for at least six years."”
“Agoutis, which can weigh up to 6kg, are found throughout the same range as the Brazil nut trees in South America.”
“But, they observed: "Juveniles were most common in unharvested and lightly harvested stands."”
“Writing in the 2003 paper, researchers said: "Persistently harvested stands were characterised by larger (and presumably older) trees and few or no juveniles."”
“they tracked 1,800 marked seeds to see how seasonal food availability affected agoutis' and acouchis' - large scatter-hoarding rodents - caching rates, dispersal distances and how long the seeds were buried before being eaten.”
“Dr Haugaasen explained that the team decided to carry out the study in order to build on the findings of a 2003 paper published in Science, which first identified the link between intensive harvesting and the lack of young Brazil nut trees.”
“Further studies on the ecology of Brazil nut trees are expected to be published in the coming 12 months.”
