News tagged with convective layer

What determines the size of giant dunes?

Physicists at the Laboratory of Physics and Mechanics of Heterogeneous Media (CNRS / Université Paris Diderot / ESPCI ParisTech / Université Pierre et Marie Curie) have shown, in collaboration with scientists ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Scientists glean new insights into convection in planets and stars

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study by UCLA planetary scientists and their colleagues in Germany overturns a longstanding scientific tenet and provides new insights into how convection controls much of what we observe ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 19, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 0




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Study finds 'cool' gas may form and strengthen sunspots

Hydrogen molecules may act as a kind of energy sink that strengthens the magnetic grip that causes sunspots, according to scientists from Hawaii and New Mexico using a new infrared instrument on an old telescope.

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jan 31, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Earth's mantle: New numerical tool describes rock deformation

Although solid, the rocks of the Earth's mantle deform very slowly. Professor Patrick Cordier's team at the Materials and Transformation Unit (Université Lille, France) has developed a model that makes it possible, over ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 24, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

NSV 11749 - born again and grown old

In 1996, a Japanese amateur astronomer discovered a new star in the constellation Sagittarius. Dubbed V4334 Sgr, astronomers initially expected it to be a typical novae, but closer examination revealed it ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 05, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Ancient dry spells offer clues about the future of drought

As parts of Central America and the U.S. Southwest endure some of the worst droughts to hit those areas in decades, scientists have unearthed new evidence about ancient dry spells that suggest the future could ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 05, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 4

NRL Monterey develops more accurate tropical cyclone prediction model

Researchers at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) Marine Meteorology Division (MMD), Monterey, Calif., have developed the Coupled Ocean/Atmosphere Mesoscale Prediction System Tropical Cyclone (COAMPS-TC) ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 18, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Biography of a star

Nuclear fusion is a virtually inexhaustible source of energy, and for decades now scientists have been working on exploiting it. A process that continues to present difficulties in laboratories on Earth has ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Nov 03, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 4

Breakthrough furnace can cut solar costs

(PhysOrg.com) -- Solar cells, the heart of the photovoltaic industry, must be tested for mechanical strength, oxidized, annealed, purified, diffused, etched, and layered.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Oct 25, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 11 | with audio podcast

The turbulent lives of stars

The stars are boiling. The reason is the energy generated in the center of the star that wants to escape. If this does not happen quickly enough, the star starts to ‘boil’ in the outer layers causing ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Sep 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 4

Diamonds show depth extent of Earth's carbon cycle

Scientists have speculated for some time that the Earth's carbon cycle extends deep into the planet's interior, but until now there has been no direct evidence. The mantle–Earth's thickest layer –is ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 15, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Where does all the gold come from?

Ultra high precision analyses of some of the oldest rock samples on Earth by researchers at the University of Bristol provides clear evidence that the planet's accessible reserves of precious metals are the ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 07, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (23) | comments 36 | with audio podcast


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