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Behind the Power and Beauty of Northern Lights

The Aurora Borealis or Northern Lights are stunningly beautiful. But they can also disrupt radio communications and GPS signals, and even cause power outages. What's behind the ethereal Northern Lights that causes them to shimmer and dance with colorful lights while sometimes wreaking havoc with electrical systems here on Earth? Using a fleet of five satellites, NASA researchers have discovered that explosions of magnetic energy a third of the way to the moon power substorms that cause sudden brightenings and rapid movements of the aurora borealis, called the Northern Lights. "We discovered what makes the Northern Lights dance," said Dr. Vassilis Angelopoulos of the University of California, Los Angeles. Angelopoulos is the principal investigator for the Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms mission, or THEMI

Northern Rock confirms jobs cuts

Northern Rock says it has made 1,300 staff redundant as the beleaguered lender streamlines its operations after being nationalised.

Northern Light Launches First Enterprise Market Research Portal that Specifically Targets Government

Northern Light Launches First Enterprise Market Research Portal that Specifically Targets Government Procurement Opportunities

Northern Rock makes a 585m loss

Northern Rock has announced bigger-than-expected losses of £585.4m for the first six months of the year.

Northern Ireland plugs open source hybrid

COUNCILS across Northern Ireland are being encouraged to join a co-operative software movement that has stood in defiance of the occupation of government computer departments by multinational suppliers in big-ticket deals.

Nanotech Northern Europe hosts world's first truly global panel on public-sector nanotechnology funding

Nanotech Northern Europe hosts world's first truly global panel on public-sector nanotechnology funding

Nanotech Northern Europe Hosts World's First Truly Global Panel on Public-Sector Nanotech Funding

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Nanotech Northern Europe Hosts World's First Truly Global Panel on Public-Sector Nanotech Funding

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Bombing in northern Lebanon kills at least 10

BEIRUT: A bomb hidden in a briefcase exploded on a bus in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli during morning rush hour Wednesday, killing at least 10 people and wounding 30, the Lebanese Army said.

CAP-XX CEO to Present at Nanotech Northern Europe

Next week, at Nanotech Northern Europe in Copenhagen, Anthony Kongats, CEO for Australia-based CAP-XX Ltd. (LSE:CPX), will share lessons learned while developing his company's nano-structured supercapacitors from government laboratory to today's deployment in space-constrained electronics devices worldwide.

Massive Jam on Java's Northern Coast

A massive traffic jam hit West Java's northern coast highway (Pantura) yesterday morning. A 36-kilometre queue started at Palikanci toll road till Pasar Gebang.

CAP-XX CEO to Present at Nanotech Northern Europe

SYDNEY, Australia - Next week, at Nanotech Northern Europe in Copenhagen, Anthony Kongats, CEO for Australia-based CAP-XX Ltd. (LSE:CPX)

Longlist Announced For The Second Northern Art Prize

Curators from the North of England have made their nominations for the second Northern Art Prize. The competition, won last year by Nina Pope and Karen Guthrie, is open to contemporary artists of any age working in any media and living in the North of England.

CEO of Australia-Based CAP-XX to Present at Nanotech Northern Europe

(Nanowerk News) Next week, at Nanotech Northern Europe in Copenhagen, Anthony Kongats, CEO for Australia-based CAP-XX

Copyright police swoop on DVD copying factory in northern Taiwan

Chiayi, Oct. 5 (CNA) Copyright police in the city of Chiayi, southern Taiwan, announced Sunday that they had busted an illegal DVD copying factory in the northern county of Taoyuan and had seized 100,000 pirated discs with an estimated value that represents losses to the legal copyright holders of NT$10 billion (US$310.95 million).

Georgia, Russia battle over breakaway province

GEOGRAPHY: South Ossetia is a mountainous province located in northern Georgia that shares its northern border with the Russian republic of North Ossetia. Provincial capital is Tskhinvali.

Solar eclipse may pass on Vietnam

VietNamNet Bridge – Because of rain in most northern provinces, Vietnamese people will have little chance to see the solar eclipse this afternoon, August 1, according to the Northern Delta Hydrometeorology Forecast Station.

Northern California Democrats to DOJ: Careful on Google-Yahoo

Silicon Valley Reps. urge Department of Justice not to pre-emptively block Yahoo-Google ad partnership.

Northern Light Launches Government Procurement Resource

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Northern Cape's Nintendo politics

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Northern Light Launches First Enterprise Market Research Portal that Specifically Targets Government Procurement Opportunities

today launched the first hosted market research portal specifically geared to help companies identify sales opportunities with federal, state and local governments throughout the United States. The SinglePoint(TM) Government Opportunities Edition indexes a broad array of government buying intention announcements, reports, and news stories from authoritative research sources specializing in government procurement. Government specific sources include Centurion Research Solutions, EagleEye, Infobase Publishers, and FedBizOps.gov. (Logo:

Rate Alert: Northern Rock a year on; leading loan rate; fixed mortgages; home insurance

Was last week the week that changed British banking forever? The collapse of US bank Lehman Brothers had a seismic effect across the globe and resulted in the UK's first super bank following the merger of Lloyds-TSB and Halifax Bank of Scotland. The giant now controls around one third of all current accounts and mortgages - but what will this all mean for British consumers?

Makeover for murals in Northern Ireland

Belfast City Council is expected to announce this week that paramilitary murals in Shankill Road are to be replaced with material relating to the area's social, cultural and industrial heritage, the Independent reports today.


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