News tagged with deep
Infovell's 'research engine' finds deep Web pages that Google, Yahoo miss
Sep 08, 2008 |
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According to a study by the University of California at Berkeley, traditional search engines such as Google and Yahoo index only about 0.2% of the Internet. The remaining 99.8%, known as the "deep Web," is ...
New detector will aid dark matter search
Dec 10, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Several research projects are underway to try to detect particles that may make up the mysterious “dark matter” believed to dominate the universe’s mass. But the existing detectors have a ...
Sunlight has more powerful influence on ocean circulation and climate than North American ice sheets
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 06, 2008 |
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A study reported in today's issue of Nature disputes a longstanding picture of how ice sheets influence ocean circulation during glacial periods.
Meditation increases brain gray matter
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
May 12, 2009 |
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Push-ups, crunches, gyms, personal trainers -- people have many strategies for building bigger muscles and stronger bones. But what can one do to build a bigger brain? Meditate.
Russia hopes nuclear ship will fly humans to Mars
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 29, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Russia should build a new nuclear-powered spaceship for prospective manned missions to Mars and other planets, the nation's space chief said Thursday.
Deep Impact Films Earth as an Alien World
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 18, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft has created a video of the moon transiting (passing in front of) Earth as seen from the spacecraft's point of view 31 million miles away. Scientists are using ...
Ocean Circulation Doesn't Work As Expected
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The familiar model of Atlantic ocean currents that shows a discrete "conveyor belt" of deep, cold water flowing southward from the Labrador Sea is probably all wet.
Meteorites 'behind volcanic eruptions' say scientists
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 10, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Gases that cause volcanoes to erupt may have spewed from meteorites that smashed into the earth billions of years ago, according to research presented at The BA Festival of Science in Liverpool today.
90 billion tons of microbial organisms live in the deep biosphere
Biology /
Jul 21, 2008 |
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Biogeoscientists show evidence of 90 billion tons of microbial organisms—expressed in terms of carbon mass—living in the deep biosphere, in a research article published online by Nature, July 20, 2008. This t ...
Scientists Find First Creature With Eyes That Use Both Refractive and Reflective Optics
Jan 27, 2009 |
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Florida Atlantic University researcher and member of the Center for Ocean Exploration and Deep-Sea Research at Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute, Dr. Tamara Frank, was part of an international research ...
Fuel for deep space exploration running on empty
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 07, 2009 |
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(AP) -- NASA is running out of nuclear fuel needed for its deep space exploration.
Deep-sea rocks point to early oxygen on Earth
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 24, 2009 |
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Red jasper cored from layers 3.46 billion years old suggests that not only did the oceans contain abundant oxygen then, but that the atmosphere was as oxygen rich as it is today, according to geologists.
Scientists Develop New Method to Find Alien Oceans, Earth-like Planets (w/Videos)
May 26, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Since the early 1990s astronomers have discovered more than 300 planets orbiting stars other than our sun, nearly all of them gas giants like Jupiter. Powerful space telescopes, such as the ...
New interferometer could simplify materials research
Aug 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- “Most current hard x-ray interferometers are based on crystals, which require their high quality and high mechanical stability,” Anatoly Snigirev tells PhysOrg.com. “This can make x-ray interferometry quite ...
Ancient ocean chemistry: Effects of biological oxygen production 100 million years before it accumulated in atmosphere
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 29, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists widely accept that around 2.4 billion years ago, the Earth's atmosphere underwent a dramatic change when oxygen levels rose sharply. Called the "Great Oxidation Event" (GOE), the ...
