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Opportunity rover finds mineral vein deposited by water

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has found bright veins of a mineral, apparently gypsum, deposited by water. Analysis of the vein will help improve understanding of the history of ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 08, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (12) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Ordered Water: Just how much water is there in calcined gypsum?

(PhysOrg.com) -- Gypsum was used as a building material in antiquity and is still widely used as a binder in plaster, drywall, and spackling paste. Known as dihydrate in construction chemistry, gypsum is a water-containing ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Apr 15, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0




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Durable NASA rover beginning ninth year of Mars work

(PhysOrg.com) -- Eight years after landing on Mars for what was planned as a three-month mission, NASA's enduring Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is working on what essentially became a new mission five ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 25, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Heritage site under attack by flowers

The results of a study conducted by Serbian researchers, in collaboration with the Laboratoire de Dynamique, Interactions et Réactivité, are unequivocal: the Belgrade fortress is not only threatened ...

Biology / Ecology

created Dec 20, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

How algae use a 'sulfate trap' to selectively biomineralize strontium

(PhysOrg.com) -- In any kind of nuclear reactor, there is a small amount of the radioactive isotope strontium-90 that is formed as part of the regular fission process. In fact, fission products such as strontium-90 ...

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Gas hydrate strategy reinforced

Their critics weren't convinced the first time, but Rice University researchers didn't give up on the "ice that burns."

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 15, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (6) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

Pond alga could help scientists design effective method for cleaning up nuclear waste

Researchers from Northwestern University and Argonne National Laboratory have an enhanced understanding of a common freshwater alga and its remarkable ability to remove strontium from water. Insight into this mechanism ultimately ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Apr 04, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Elevated zinc concentrations in Colorado waterway likely a result of climate change

Rising concentrations of zinc in a waterway on Colorado's Western Slope may be the result of climate change that is affecting the timing of annual snowmelt, says a new study led by the University of Colorado ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 15, 2010 | popularity 2.4 / 5 (7) | comments 1

Nanoparticles for cultural heritage conservation

(PhysOrg.com) -- The conservation of Mayan wall paintings at the archaeological site of Calakmul (Mexico) will be one on the subjects touched upon by Piero Baglioni (based at the University of Florence) in ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Sep 10, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Mars was Wet, but was it Warm?

Mars is frozen today, but when it was young there may have been liquid water on its surface. What does the latest evidence indicate about the ancient martian climate? Understanding the past environment of ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 31, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (11) | comments 10 | with audio podcast

Land Deal Likely to Improve Everglades, Ecologists Say

Tom Brokaw, Miss Florida, and the all stars of Florida Everglades advocacy came to Washington on May 19 to discuss the progress of restoration efforts. Packed into a small room down the street from the Capitol ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 20, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New research may help to clean drainage from abandoned mines

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a quiet green glen near Ashville, Pa., lies a rust-colored pond. A deep, rectangular hole in the ground, it somewhat resembles an Olympic-sized pool. Few people, however, would make the ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0


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