News tagged with earth walls
Secret of sandcastle construction could help revive ancient building technique, researchers say
Jun 02, 2009 |
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The secret of a successful sandcastle could aid the revival of an ancient eco-friendly building technique, according to research led by Durham University.
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Opportunity's Second Martian Birthday at Cape Verde
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 30, 2007 |
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A promontory nicknamed "Cape Verde" can be seen jutting out from the walls of Victoria Crater in this approximate true-color picture taken by the panoramic camera on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity.
Clues to How Plants Form New Cell Walls Could Aid Biofuels, Nanotechnology
Feb 27, 2008 |
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When plant cells divide, they assemble molecular building blocks into new cell walls made of carbohydrate and protein, but scientists know almost nothing about how this process occurs. A team of researchers including Maura ...
Plasma power: Turning fusion into a renewable energy source
Sep 14, 2009 |
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Fusion is best known for powering the sun and stars. But researchers have long been studying ways to transform that power source into future "green" energy that can be used on Earth. A team of researchers ...
Living sensor can warn of arsenic pollution
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Sep 08, 2008 |
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Scientists studying arsenic pollution have discovered a living sensor that can spot contamination. They have also discovered new bacteria that can clean up arsenic spills even in previously untreatable cold areas, microbiologists ...
All decked out: Networks of chitin filaments are integral components of diatom silica shells
Dec 01, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A whole microcosm of various bizarrely shaped life forms opens up when you look at diatoms, the primary component of ocean plankton, under a microscope. The regularly structured silica shells of these tiny ...
Space rock yields answers about origins of life on Earth
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 03, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Formic acid, a compound implicated in the origins of life, has been found at record levels on a meteorite that fell onto a frozen Canadian lake in 2000.
Volcano taming
Jun 05, 2008 |
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Could macro-scale chemical engineering be used to stop a volcanic lava flow in its tracks and save potentially thousands of lives and homes when the next eruption occurs? That's the question R.D. Schuiling of Geochem Research ...
Rocket test will carry Purdue experiment
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 30, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Purdue University researchers are designing and building an experiment that will operate during a test flight of a new type of reusable rocket to be launched by aerospace company Blue Origin LLC.
Microfossils challenge prevailing views of the effects of 'Snowball Earth' glaciations on life
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 26, 2009 |
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New fossil findings discovered by scientists at UC Santa Barbara challenge prevailing views about the effects of "Snowball Earth" glaciations on life, according to an article in the June issue of the journal ...
Innovative avionics enable search for habitable planets
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 09, 2009 |
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The search for habitable planets continues with the March 6 launch of the Kepler spacecraft, the latest in NASA's series of low cost, highly focused Discovery missions. Kepler, built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., ...
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