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Big freeze plunged Europe into ice age in months

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (17) | comments 7

In the film, 'The Day After Tomorrow' the world enters the icy grip of a new glacial period within the space of just a few weeks. Now new research shows that this scenario may not be so far from the truth after all.


Diet secrets of 'the Royals'

Diet secrets of 'the Royals' -- Elephant tail hair isotopes show cattle out-munch pachyderms

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Apr 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Two weeks after the rains begin, an elephant family named "the Royals" usually switches to a grass diet to bulk up for pregnancy and birth. But when they wandered off their African reserve one rainy season, ...





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New isotope cluster could lead to better understanding of atmospheric carbon dioxide

New isotope cluster could lead to better understanding of atmospheric carbon dioxide

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jul 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of researchers has discovered an unexpected concentration of a certain isotopic molecule in parts of the stratosphere that could have implications for understanding the carbon cycle ...


New technique put to use to test clean up of contaminated groundwater

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jan 30, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Cleaning up the dangerous contaminants — dry-cleaning fluids, solvents and petroleum hydrocarbons — found in underground water presents one of the most urgent challenges facing environmental science. A report issued today ...


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Theory of the sun's role in formation of the solar system questioned

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Sep 04, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (35) | comments 7

A strange mix of oxygen found in a stony meteorite that exploded over Pueblito de Allende, Mexico nearly 40 years ago has puzzled scientists ever since. Small flecks of minerals lodged in the stone and thought ...


Early elephant 'was amphibious'

Early elephant 'was amphibious'

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created Apr 15, 2008 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (14) | comments 2

An ancient relative of today’s elephants lived in water, a team led by an Oxford University scientist has found.


Peruvian stalagmites a new basis for 'Inconvenient truth'?

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 29, 2009 | popularity 2.9 / 5 (7) | comments 5

Will the Netherlands that is dominated by water succumb to the 'Inconvenient Truth' predicted by Al Gore? Dutch researcher Martin van Breukelen analysed stalagmites from the South American Amazon tributaries in Peru. He used ...


Iron isotopes as a tool in oceanography

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jul 31, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

New research involving scientists from the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (NOCS) highlights the potential utility of iron isotopes for addressing important questions in ocean science. The findings are published ...


Stanford researchers find a quicker, cheaper way to sort isotopes

Researchers find quicker, cheaper way to sort isotopes

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Jun 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Whether it's the summer grass that tickles your feet or the red Bordeaux smacking on your palette, nearly every part of the world around you carries special chemical markers. These markers, ...


Researchers Study Cave's 'Breathing' for Better Climate Clues

Researchers Study Cave's 'Breathing' for Better Climate Clues

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 09, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A University of Arkansas researcher studying the way caves "breathe" is providing new insights into the process by which scientists study paleoclimates.


Carbon and oxygen in tree rings can reveal past climate information

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created 18 hours ago | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The analysis of carbon and oxygen isotopes embedded in tree rings may shed new light on past climate events in the Mackenzie Delta region of northern Canada.


Mukul Sharma and Rasmus Andreasen (Joseph Mehling '69)

Researchers find new information about Earth's origins

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created Oct 05, 2006 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (67) | comments 0

Two Dartmouth researchers have learned more about the origins and makeup of the solar nebula, the large gaseous cloud thought to have spawned the solar system. Mukul Sharma, assistant professor of Earth sciences, ...



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