• The sky will be a deep, vivid red because the sun will, in essence, have turned into a huge red cloud.

    ECONOMIST: To the ends of the earth

  • And the sky is blue, it says, because the sun produces white light which is made up of all the colours of the rainbow.

    BBC: rainbow

  • Keene couldn't use regular paint because the sun and the elements would ruin it, so he used gold-leaf metals in blue, gold and green.

    WSJ: I Love You, Man

  • Because the sun never dips below the horizon during the Arctic summer, GROVER can work at any time during the day and should be able to work longer and gather more data than a human on a snowmobile.

    ENGADGET: NASA's GROVER eco-rover to examine Greenland's ice sheet (video)

  • This tavern must have been facing west, because the burning sun came through the open door.

    NEWYORKER: Share

  • "You've got to let these doomsday guys have their day in the sun because their days in the sun don't come around very often--the optimists have usually been right, " says John Dessauer , the veteran editor of John Dessauer's Investor's World.

    FORBES: Armageddon Buys

  • The transit of Venus can't be observed with the Hubble Space Telescope because the extreme brightness of the sun would destroy the telescope and its instruments.

    CNN: A transit of Venus, an age of wondrous science

  • "It's hard to be sure, " he said, because the detailed inner workings of the Sun were a mystery.

    BBC: Sun, Trace

  • Light-colored paving is attractive in warmer climates because it reflects the sun and keeps the area cool, Mr. Justiss says.

    WSJ: Full Enclosure - WSJ Mansion

  • Sterile neutrinos differ from ordinary neutrinos (electrically neutral particles produced in abundance by the nuclear reactions that power the sun) because ordinary neutrinos feel the weak nuclear force, while sterile ones do not.

    ECONOMIST: Research from the beginning of time

  • Some of them are substantial in size but it's almost impossible to see them in the forest because they only become visible when the sun is at the right angle.

    BBC: Fossil finds in Leicestershire 'absolutely world class'

  • Cancer Research UK says people should not use artificial tanning devices for cosmetic purposes because they - like the sun - increase skin cancer risk.

    BBC: NEWS | Health | Europe issues warning on sunbeds

  • All organic crop rotations contain three to four years of no ploughing because grass leys use the sun's energy to fix nitrogen for subsequent crops in place of oil-based artificial fertiliser.

    ECONOMIST: Organic matter

  • Mr. House says an east-west orientation is preferred because latitude works with the sun's motion, making it easy for an individual who wants morning sunlight in the breakfast room to position it on the west side of the home, with east-facing windows.

    WSJ: Full Enclosure - WSJ Mansion

  • Earth's thermosphere is one of the least explored parts of the atmosphere, but it is important because "the thermosphere is where the sun first interacts with our atmosphere, " said James Russell III of Hampton University in Hampton, Va.

    MSN: Earth's upper atmosphere cooling dramatically

  • Cleaning the wafers could affect solar samples because the particles -- atomic isotopes emitted by the sun -- are only shallowly embedded in the tiles.

    CNN: High hopes to salvage Genesis science

  • But the reason that they come near the sun at all is because their original orbits, which kept them in the distant realm of the Oort cloud, had been somehow disturbed.

    ECONOMIST: X marks the spot

  • Just as Microsoft can give away its browser because it makes money from the Windows operating system and Office, so Sun can afford to make StarPortal free because it makes so much from selling the powerful servers that host web pages and other data.

    ECONOMIST: Software

  • The fund will be called Third Rock Ventures (because Earth is the third rock from the sun).

    FORBES: Biotech Battle Scars

  • Standard and Poor's recently downgraded its outlook for Mohegan Sun because of the softness in the Connecticut gaming market.

    ECONOMIST: Gambling

  • Dr. Costarelis advises his patients to eat a nutrient-rich diet and stay out of the sun, because UV rays damage hair.

    WSJ: Old Hair Days: Products to Help Manage Gray and Thinning Hair

  • Then I began to laugh, because of what we had both said, and because of her laughter and the sun and the sky and the lake.

    NEWYORKER: Miracle Polish

  • They come to that conclusion presumably because revenue from the sale of Sun hardware has declined since the acquisition, and they lock on to that opinion in spite of the fact that Oracle executives at the time of the deal said they were going to eliminate unprofitable hardware products, low-value hardware products, and no-future hardware products in spite of the inevitable revenue impacts.

    FORBES: Why Oracle CEO Larry Ellison Is So Bullish on Sun Hardware

  • Because the rims of these craters catch rays of light from the sun, this may provide sufficient illumination for the spectrometer to detect frozen water.

    ECONOMIST: Astronomy

  • Maybe it's because the film industry assumes that we're outside soaking up the sun and have lost some brain cells as a result.

    CNN: 10 summer movies that we're actually looking forward to

  • The sun is out because good things are happening.

    WHITEHOUSE: President Obama: A New Consensus on Auto Emissions

  • That's because as the Earth moves around the Sun, it is moving into a stationary field of dark matter - and for half the year it will be moving against the tide of dark matter - just like driving into the rain.

    BBC: Dark Matter: Experiment to shed light on dark particles

  • Photographing Mercury is challenging because of the planet's proximity to the Sun.

    BBC: Close up on Mercury

  • But a clear, cloudless day-time sky is blue because molecules in the air scatter blue light from the sun more easily than they do red light.

    BBC: rainbow

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