... (genetically engineered material) from crops to their wild relatives over several kilometres. The findings, which have been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) of ...
The Dutch government said Friday it wants to introduce a "green" road tax by the kilometre from 2012 aimed at cutting carbon dioxide emissions by 10 percent and halving congestion.
... expelled from its parent galaxy
Gravitational rocket propelled the monster at a speed of thousands of kilometres per second
By an enormous burst of gravitational waves that accompanies the merger of ...
... that has not been affected by the quake - a satellite which, from its altitude of 36 000 kilometres, can immediately link the locations involved in the catastrophe with the appropriate authorities.
... astronomers estimated that the stars are spinning around their galactic disks at roughly 400 to 500 kilometres per second. Stars in today’s galaxies, by contrast, are travelling at about half that ...
... of 613 street trees per square kilometre, and 9% of young children had asthma.
Asthma rates ... density, equivalent to 343 trees per square kilometre.
This pattern held true even after taking account ...
... the total diameter of the Earth with approx. 12800 kilometres this appears to be rather shallow, but precisely these upper kilometres of the crust, the human habitat, is of special interest for us...
... pictures. At this point, no one living 1500 kilometres to the west suspected what was in store for people ... troposphere, i.e. the lower few kilometres of the atmosphere. He and his colleagues quickly ...
... large antennas are activated and track the satellite. GIOVE-B is orbiting at an altitude of 23 173 kilometres, making a complete journey around the Earth in 14 hours and 3 minutes.
The quality of ...
... in two articles in the respected scientific journal Nature.
An ice core drilled through the three-kilometre-thick ice cap at the EPICA Dome C Station in the middle of Antarctica reveal the climate ...
... after a 10-month cruise from Earth. Travelling initially at 12,500 miles per hour (5.7 kilometres per second), Phoenix will make a hair-raising, nail-biting, 6-and-a-half-minute plunge though the ...
NASA said the Phoenix Mars Lander, which has a Canadian-built weather station aboard, touched down safely Sunday on the Red Planet after travelling 10 months and 640 million kilometres.
... to Indonesia’s second city of Surabaya, East Java, and now covers seven square kilometres and is 20 metres thick.
In January 2007 Durham University published the first scientific report into the ...
... create the equivalent of a global nuclear winter. There would be devastation for many hundreds of kilometres near the eruption and there would be would be global crop failures because of the ash ...
... golf means being outside for four or five hours, walking at a fast pace for six to seven kilometres, something which is known to be good for the health," he says. "People play golf into old age, and ...
