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Earth's crust melts easier than previously thought

Earth's crust melts easier than previously thought

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 18, 2009 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (14) | comments 5

A University of Missouri study published in Nature this week has found that the Earth's crust melts easier than previously thought. In the study, researchers measured how well rocks conduct heat at differ ...





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'Super-river' formed the English Channel

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (16) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of Anglo-French scientists studying sedimentary deposits in the Bay of Biscay have concluded that Britain and France were separated by a "super-river" during three periods of glaciations, ...


LHC sets new world record

Large Hadron Collider sets new power world record

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (22) | comments 14

(PhysOrg.com) -- CERN's Large Hadron Collider has today become the world's highest energy particle accelerator, having accelerated its twin beams of protons to an energy of 1.18 TeV in the early hours of the ...


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Plasma produces KO cocktail for MRSA

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 26, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (16) | comments 3

MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus) and other drug-resistant bacteria could face annihilation as low-temperature plasma prototype devices have been developed to offer safe, quick, easy and un ...


Oceanic crust formation is dynamic after all

Oceanic crust formation is dynamic after all

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (9) | comments 0

Imagine the Earth's crust as the planet's skin: Some areas are old and wrinkled while others have a fresher, more youthful sheen, as if they had been regularly lathered with lotion.


First Neutrino Events Observed at T2K Near Detector

First Neutrino Events Observed at T2K Near Detector

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (24) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists from the Japanese-led multi-national T2K neutrino collaboration announced today that over the weekend they detected the first events generated by their newly built neutrino beam ...


First black holes may have incubated in giant, starlike cocoons, says CU-Boulder study

First black holes may have incubated in giant, starlike cocoons

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (20) | comments 22

(PhysOrg.com) -- The first large black holes in the universe likely formed and grew deep inside gigantic, starlike cocoons that smothered their powerful x-ray radiation and prevented surrounding gases from ...


'Cosmic fruit machine' matches collisions

'Cosmic fruit machine' matches collisions

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new website will give everyone the chance to contribute to science by playing a 'cosmic fruit machine' and compare images of colliding galaxies with millions of simulated images of galactic ...


New computer-developed map shows more extensive valley network on Mars

New computer-developed map shows more extensive valley network on Mars

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (9) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- New research adds to the growing body of evidence suggesting the Red Planet once had an ocean.


Scientists react as they stand in front of a screen at CERN

First atoms reported smashed in Large Hadron Collider (Update)

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (38) | comments 35

Two circulating beams on Monday produced the first particle collisions in the world's biggest atom smasher, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), three days after its restart, scientists announced.


Big Bang atom smasher sends beams in 2 directions (AP)

Large Hadron Collider sends beams in 2 directions

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created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (12) | comments 0

(AP) -- The world's largest atom smasher made another leap forward Monday by circulating beams of protons in opposite directions at the same time in the $10 billion machine after more than a year of repairs, ...



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