It is almost certain there'll be a gap in the acquisition of civilian US polar satellite meteorological data at the end of this decade.

BBC: Weather satellites and the gathering storm

In 1996 (it took several years to analyse the data) Polar saw some plasma sneak inside the magnetosphere, and Geotail saw the rogue plasma being bounced back toward earth itself.

ECONOMIST: Hot stuff

Kearns and a team of scientists led by Alan Strong of NOAA's National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service analyzed sea surface temperature data from the agency's polar-orbiting satellites from 1984 through 1996.

CNN: Warmer tropical waters portend climate change

The deal with this mobile is it pairs up with special fitness-related software on Polar wrist computers (yeah, that means they're watches) to download training data to your phone after a workout.

ENGADGET: Nokia intros 5140i fitness phone

Although scientists have long recognised that mid latitudes were warmer when dinosaurs walked the Earth, some researchers have held to the view - partly based on the previous shell data - that different ocean currents must have operated at the time, leading to warmer polar temperatures but, crucially, cooler tropical temperatures.

BBC: Dinosaurs felt the heat