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Supercritical CO2 boosts super optimism in sequestering greenhouse gas
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 17, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists appear to have the rock-solid evidence that suggests carbon dioxide can be safely and permanently sequestered in deep, underground basalt rock formations, without risk of it eventually ...
USC awarded $3.9M for lab under the sea
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 22, 2008 |
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Think of bacteria eating rock. Now think of bacteria eating rock below the ocean floor. How about experimenting on bacteria in that rock 15,000 feet underwater?
Undersea volcanic rocks offer vast repository for greenhouse gas, says study
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 14, 2008 |
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A group of scientists has used deep ocean-floor drilling and experiments to show that volcanic rocks off the West Coast and elsewhere might be used to securely imprison huge amounts of globe-warming carbon ...
New map hints at Venus's wet, volcanic past (w/ Video)
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 14, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Venus Express has charted the first map of Venus's southern hemisphere at infrared wavelengths. The new map hints that our neighbouring world may once have been more Earth-like, with both, ...
Electrochemical technique follows the motion of individual microparticles in space and time
Mar 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Many bacteria are able to 'swim' through liquids by means of a flagellum. When doing this, some bacteria follow attractants, some flee from harmful substances, and others align themselves using light, gravity, ...
Volcanic eruption signals simulated in lab for first time
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 10, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time, seismic signals that precede a volcanic eruption have been simulated and visualized in 3-D under controlled pressure conditions in a laboratory. The ability to conduct such simulations ...
Geologists map rocks to soak CO2 from air
Mar 05, 2009 |
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A new report by scientists at Columbia University's Earth Institute and the US Geological Survey points to an abundant supply of carbon-trapping rock in the US that could be used to help stabilize global warming. ...
Banded rocks reveal early Earth conditions, changes
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 11, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The strikingly banded rocks scattered across the upper Midwest and elsewhere throughout the world are actually ambassadors from the past, offering clues to the environment of the early Earth ...
Reversals of Earth's Magnetic Field Explained by Small Core Fluctuations
Apr 23, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Based on studies of old volcanic basalt, scientists know that the Earth’s magnetic field reverses at irregular intervals, ranging from tens of thousands to millions of years. Volcanic basalt ...
The minerals on Mars influence the measuring of its temperature
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 14, 2009 |
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A team of researchers from the CSIC-INTA Astrobiology Centre in Madrid has confirmed that the type of mineralogical composition on the surface of Mars influences the measuring of its temperature. The study ...
'Barren' seafloor teeming with microbial life
Biology /
May 28, 2008 |
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Once considered a barren plain with the odd hydrothermal vent, the seafloor appears to be teeming with microbial life, according to a paper being published May 29 in Nature. “A 60,000 kilometer seam of bas ...
Continents loss to oceans boosts staying power
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 01, 2008 |
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New research in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science finds that the geological staying power of continents comes partly from their losing battle with the Earth's oceans over magnesium. Continents lose more t ...
Magma Discovered in Situ for First Time
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 16, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A crew drilling on the Big Island of Hawaii has discovered magma, the molten rock material — never before found in its natural habitat underground — that is the central ingredient in the evolution of planets ...
Fighting climate change by turning CO2 to stone
Nov 17, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- While politicians debate the best ways to cut global carbon dioxide emissions, researchers at Idaho National Laboratory's Center for Advanced Energy Studies are charging ahead on a strategy ...
Apollo 12 and Surveyor 3
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 03, 2009 |
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Four months after the success of Apollo 11, NASA launched Apollo 12 in November 1969. Almost exactly 40 years later, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has seen the landing site.
