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NASA to Explore 'Secret Layer' of the Sun
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 08, 2008 |
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Next April, for a grand total of 8 minutes, NASA astronomers are going to glimpse a secret layer of the sun.
MSU scientists to design optics for new solar mission
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 24, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Montana State University scientists are involved in a new space mission to figure out how energy is transferred through the sun's atmosphere.
MSU scientists to design optics for new solar mission
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 31, 2009 |
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Montana State University scientists are involved in a new space mission to figure out how energy is transferred through the sun's atmosphere.
CO2 drop and global cooling caused Antarctic glacier to form
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 26, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Global climate rapidly shifted from a relatively ice-free world to one with massive ice sheets on Antarctica about 34 million years ago. What happened? What changed? A team of scientists ...
Health varies widely across different regions of Mexico
Jun 17, 2008 |
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A new study of the burden of disease and injury across Mexico has found that the south suffers the highest rates of infectious and nutritional diseases, injuries, and non-communicable diseases. The study, by researchers at ...
Experiments challenge models about the deep Earth
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 20, 2007 |
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In the first experiments able to mimic the crushing, searing conditions found in Earth’s lower mantle, and simultaneously probe tell-tale properties of iron, scientists have discovered that material there ...
Tectonic signatures at Aeolis Mensae
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 28, 2007 |
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The High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board Mars Express has provided snapshots of the Aeolis Mensae region. This area, well known for its wind-eroded features, lies on a tectonic transition zone, characterised ...
Metals could forge new cancer drug
Oct 19, 2009 |
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Drugs made using unusual metals could form an effective treatment against colon and ovarian cancer, including cancerous cells that have developed immunity to other drugs, according to research at the University ...
Sub-Saharan Africa: the population emergency
Jan 08, 2008 |
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Sub-Saharan Africa has been experiencing phenomenal population growth since the beginning of the XXth Century, following several centuries of population stagnation attributable to the slave trade and colonization. The region’s ...
Earth's getting 'soft' in the middle
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 24, 2008 |
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Since we can’t sample the deepest regions of the Earth, scientists watch the velocity of seismic waves as they travel through the planet to determine the composition and density of that material. Now a new ...
Physicists make crystal/liquid interface visible for first time
Aug 11, 2009 |
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"Imagine you're a water molecule in a glass of ice water, and you're floating right on the boundary of the ice and the water," proposes Emory University physicist Eric Weeks. "So how do you know if you're ...
Hybrid bluegrasses analyzed for use in transition zone
Nov 04, 2009 |
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The transition zone can be one of the most challenging places to maintain high-quality turfgrass; changeable growing conditions in these regions often prove too hot for some grasses and too cold for others. Finding turfgrass ...
'Fishapod' reveals origins of head and neck structures of first land animals
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Oct 15, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Newly exposed parts of Tiktaalik roseae--the intermediate fossil between fish and the first animals to walk out of water onto land 375 million years ago--are revealing how this major evolutionary ...
Maps Unveil the Source of Starburst Galaxy's Winds
Nov 18, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A research group at Kyoto University has discovered that shocks are the primary energy sources that excite the galactic wind region of starburst galaxy NGC 253. Their images of the center ...
Trade liberalization linked to obesity in Central America
Jul 28, 2009 |
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Since trade liberalization between Central and North America, imports and availability of processed, high-fat and high-sugar foods have increased dramatically. Researchers writing in BioMed Central's open access journal Globalization an ...
