News tagged with desert
Robotics desert test provides NASA with new set of wheels for moon
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Sep 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Every year, for two weeks in the Arizona desert at Black Point Lava Flow, NASA's Desert Research and Technology Studies group (Desert RATS) conducts technology development tests in anticipation ...
NASA Concludes Lunar Robotics Tests in Arizona
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Sep 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA has concluded two weeks of technology development tests on two of the agency's prototype lunar rovers.
Students To Participate In NASA's Lunar Field Test Activities
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 11, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- To prepare for human exploration of the moon and other destinations in our solar system, NASA is conducting a field test of rovers and equipment at an Earthly site in the Arizona desert. Hundreds ...
Giant stone-age axes found in African lake basin
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Sep 10, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A giant African lake basin is providing information about possible migration routes and hunting practices of early humans in the Middle and Late Stone Age periods, between 150,000 and 10,000 ...
NY researchers breeding rare native ladybugs
Sep 04, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A year after they launched a nationwide search for dwindling native ladybugs, New York researchers are breeding colonies of them from insects found by citizen scientists in Oregon and Colorado.
Massive dust storm in China circled the world in 13 days: study
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 20, 2009 |
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A wind storm that ripped across western China's Taklimakan desert kicked up hundreds of thousands of tonnes of dust that high-altitude winds then carried around the world in less than two weeks, a study says.
Study Reveals Small Lizard Tucks Legs and Swims Like a Snake Through Desert Sand (w/ Video)
Jul 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A study published in the July 17 issue of the journal Science details how sandfish -- small lizards with smooth scales -- move rapidly underground through desert sand. In this first thorou ...
Desert rhubarb -- a self-irrigating plant
Jul 01, 2009 |
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Researchers from the Department of Science Education-Biology at the University of Haifa-Oranim have managed to make out the "self-irrigating" mechanism of the desert rhubarb, which enables it to harvest 16 ...
Desert Dust Alters Ecology of Colorado Alpine Meadows
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 29, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Accelerated snowmelt--precipitated by desert dust blowing into the mountains--changes how alpine plants respond to seasonal climate cues that regulate their life cycles, according to results ...
Sands of Gobi Desert yield new species of nut-cracking dinosaur
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jun 17, 2009 |
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Plants or meat: That's about all that fossils ever tell paleontologists about a dinosaur's diet. But the skull characteristics of a new species of parrot-beaked dinosaur and its associated gizzard stones indicate ...
Drinking water from air humidity
Jun 05, 2009 |
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Cracks permeate the dried-out desert ground, the landscape bears testimony to the lack of water. But even here, where there are no lakes, rivers or groundwater, considerable quantities of water are stored ...
Society warns cuckoo bird in danger of extinction
May 28, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Britain's cuckoo bird, known for its distinctive call, is in danger of extinction along with 51 other species, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds said in a new report Thursday.
A Hidden Drip, Drip, Drip Beneath Earth's Surface
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 26, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- There are very few places in the world where dynamic activity taking place beneath Earth's surface goes undetected.
Scientists discover 2 new dinosaur species
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Apr 22, 2009 |
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Researchers from Field Museum in Chicago have helped discover two new dinosaur species in China's Gobi Desert: a 5-foot-tall forebear of Tyrannosaurus rex and a half-ton beaked dinosaur reminiscent of a giant ostrich.
Desert clash in West over solar potential, water
Apr 19, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A westward dash to power electricity-hungry cities by cashing in on the desert's most abundant resource - sunshine - is clashing with efforts to protect the tiny pupfish and desert tortoise and stinginess ...
