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(PhysOrg.com) -- The most detailed seismic images yet published of the plumbing that feeds the Yellowstone supervolcano shows a plume of hot and molten rock rising at an angle from the northwest at a depth of at least 410 miles, contradicting claims that there is no deep plume, only shallow hot rock moving like slowly boiling soup. http://www.physorg.com/news179994313.html Space & Earth Mon, 14 Dec 2009 07:10:32 EST news179994313 Scientists have ruled out the possibility that methane is delivered to Mars by meteorites, raising fresh hopes that the gas might be generated by life on the red planet, in research published tomorrow in Earth and Planetary Science Letters. http://www.physorg.com/news179499648.html Space & Earth Tue, 08 Dec 2009 13:02:06 EST news179499648 By playing the video game Rock Band for an hour, Kansas State University students were able to help a pair of psychology professors with their research to understand how people can achieve flow while at work or while performing skilled tasks. http://www.physorg.com/news178284517.html Medicine & Health Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:29:34 EST news178284517 A team of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has developed a new modeling methodology for determining the capacity and assessing the risks of leakage of potential underground carbon-dioxide reservoirs. http://www.physorg.com/news178208871.html Physics Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:40:02 EST news178208871 (AP) -- Musical video games are already family-friendly. There's no violence, and their developers have already weeded out most of the sex and drugs in rock 'n roll. And just about anyone can pick up a fake guitar, microphone or a pair or drumsticks and figure out what to do with it. http://www.physorg.com/news177258293.html Technology Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:30:01 EST news177258293 Alberta is crisscrossed with hidden glacial valleys that hold both resource treasures and potential danger. University of Alberta researcher Doug Schmitt discovered a 300 metre deep, valley hidden beneath the surface of the ground near the community of Rainbow Lake in northwestern Alberta. http://www.physorg.com/news177254204.html Space & Earth Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:40:01 EST news177254204 Scientists have discovered the first evidence that dinosaurs roamed the South Island of New Zealand with 70-million-year-old footprints found in six locations. http://www.physorg.com/news176809886.html Other Sciences Sat, 07 Nov 2009 10:40:05 EST news176809886 (AP) -- Headbangers will have a reason to steady their gaze a bit starting Tuesday, when rock band Metallica makes its way onto iPhones with a finger-tapping music app called "Tap Tap Revenge: Metallica." http://www.physorg.com/news175841716.html Technology Tue, 27 Oct 2009 06:30:01 EST news175841716 (AP) -- Scientists investigating a large crater initially believed to have been caused by a meteorite said a closer analysis Monday revealed it was a hoax. http://www.physorg.com/news175758595.html Space & Earth Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:56:03 EST news175758595 (PhysOrg.com) -- Intrigued by NASA lunar missions in the 1990s which suggested the existence of ice within craters at the moon's poles, NASA scientist Dr. Edwin Ethridge and his team started cooking up a way to extract water from lunar soil. http://www.physorg.com/news175198787.html Space & Earth Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:21:54 EST news175198787 Magma from a Chilean volcano shot through Earth's crust at around a metre (3.25 feet) per second, a speed highlighting the perils from so-called rhyolitic volcanoes, scientists reported on Wednesday. http://www.physorg.com/news174143402.html Space & Earth Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:30:01 EST news174143402 (PhysOrg.com) -- New, three-dimensional imaging of Martian north-polar ice layers by a radar instrument on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is consistent with theoretical models of Martian climate swings during the past few million years. http://www.physorg.com/news172858451.html Space & Earth Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:30:03 EST news172858451 (PhysOrg.com) -- New studies suggest a 20 foot snake, the African rock python, is making its home in Florida and could soon invade the Everglades National Park. http://www.physorg.com/news172743431.html Biology Mon, 21 Sep 2009 10:20:03 EST news172743431 (AP) -- Attention, countries of the world: Do you know where your moon rocks are? http://www.physorg.com/news172073809.html Space & Earth Sun, 13 Sep 2009 15:17:20 EST news172073809 After a five-month decline in sales, the video game business is pinning its hope for recovery on a handful of rock bands, including one that hasn't put out a new record in nearly 40 years. http://www.physorg.com/news171825709.html Technology Fri, 11 Sep 2009 02:30:02 EST news171825709 Beatlemania is set to break out again on Wednesday when The Beatles' digitally remastered albums and a new computer game are released as the world's most famous pop group finally embraces the digital age. http://www.physorg.com/news171700102.html Technology Wed, 09 Sep 2009 07:40:02 EST news171700102 (PhysOrg.com) -- A team of archaeologists has come one step closer to unravelling the mystery of how the famous statues dotting the landscape of a tiny Pacific island acquired their distinctive red hats. http://www.physorg.com/news171546695.html Other Sciences Mon, 07 Sep 2009 12:52:08 EST news171546695 (PhysOrg.com) -- The Dutch national Rijksmuseum made an embarrassing announcement last week that one of its most loved possessions, a moon rock, is a fake -- just an old piece of petrified wood that's never been anywhere near the moon. http://www.physorg.com/news171006198.html Space & Earth Tue, 01 Sep 2009 09:30:01 EST news171006198 (AP) -- With a little help from the Beatles, Super Mario and price cuts from Sony and Microsoft, the slumping video game industry is hoping for a sales resurrection this fall. http://www.physorg.com/news170958474.html Technology Mon, 31 Aug 2009 17:40:04 EST news170958474 The U.S. Geological Survey has released the results of a long-term study of key glaciers in western North America, reporting this month that glacial shrinkage is rapid and accelerating and a result of climate change. http://www.physorg.com/news170941320.html Space & Earth Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:43:16 EST news170941320 The Beatles rock-and-roll invasion that conquered the music scene in the 1960s has been reborn in a hotly-anticipated assault on the world of videogames. http://www.physorg.com/news170661212.html Technology Fri, 28 Aug 2009 07:40:01 EST news170661212 (PhysOrg.com) -- If humans ever create a lunar base, one of the biggest challenges will be figuring out how to breathe. Transporting oxygen to the moon is extremely expensive, so for the past several years NASA has been looking into other possibilities. One idea is extracting oxygen from moon rock. http://www.physorg.com/news169216598.html Space & Earth Tue, 11 Aug 2009 13:37:06 EST news169216598 (PhysOrg.com) -- Radar imaging at NASA's Goldstone Solar System Radar on June 12 and 14, 2009, revealed that near-Earth asteroid 1994 CC is a triple system. Asteroid 1994 CC encountered Earth within 2.52 million kilometers (1.56 million miles) on June 10. http://www.physorg.com/news168801668.html Space & Earth Thu, 06 Aug 2009 19:00:01 EST news168801668 In the past decade the popularity of rock climbing has dramatically increased. It has been estimated that rock climbing is now enjoyed by more than 9 million people in the U.S. each year. A new study by researchers at the Center for Injury Research and Policy of the Research Institute at the Nationwide Children's Hospital found that as the popularity of the sport has escalated, so have the number of injuries. Study findings revealed a 63 percent increase in the number of patients that were treated in U.S. emergency departments for rock climbing-related injuries between 1990 and 2007. http://www.physorg.com/news167400322.html Medicine & Health Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:10:57 EST news167400322 Stromatolites are dome- or column-like sedimentary rock structures that are formed in shallow water, layer by layer, over long periods of geologic time. Now, researchers from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) have provided evidence that some of the most ancient stromatolites on our planet were built with the help of communities of equally ancient microorganisms, a finding that "adds unexpected depth to our understanding of the earliest record of life on Earth," notes JPL astrobiologist Abigail Allwood, a visitor in geology at Caltech. http://www.physorg.com/news166972420.html Space & Earth Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:14:07 EST news166972420 (PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists drilling a borehole deep into Iceland`s rocky crust to explore new methods of using geothermal energy hit a major roadblock on Thursday: Their drill ran into molten rock at a depth of 6,900 feet. http://www.physorg.com/news165513789.html Space & Earth Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:03:43 EST news165513789 Videogames are getting their groove on with a collection of new music titles, as bands including the legendary Beatles are won over to a new platform for selling their songs. http://www.physorg.com/news163315303.html Technology Thu, 04 Jun 2009 06:22:09 EST news163315303 A previously unknown giant volcanic eruption that led to global mass extinction 260million years ago has been uncovered by scientists at the University of Leeds. http://www.physorg.com/news162738601.html Space & Earth Thu, 28 May 2009 14:13:04 EST news162738601 It is a mystery to many people why the world is running out of oil when most of the world's oilfields have only been half emptied. However some of the oil that has been located is trapped as droplets of oil in small cavities in the surrounding rock or is stuck to the walls of the underground cavity and cannot be accessed by the techniques currently used in the oil industry. http://www.physorg.com/news161257391.html Space & Earth Mon, 11 May 2009 10:45:34 EST news161257391 A Princeton University geoscientist who has stirred controversy with her studies challenging a popular theory that an asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs has compiled powerful new evidence asserting her position. http://www.physorg.com/news160655449.html Space & Earth Mon, 04 May 2009 11:31:44 EST news160655449