News tagged with earths core
Riding -- and reading -- the Earth tide
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 29, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Once a day, Miaki Ishii rides the Earth tide, rising slowly — along with her desk, chair, and entire office — 20 to 30 centimeters before sinking back again.
Scientists glean new insights into convection in planets and stars
Jan 19, 2009 |
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(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 ...
Surprisingly rapid changes in the Earth's core discovered
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Jul 07, 2008 |
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In a recent paper published in Nature Geoscience, the geophysicist Mioara MANDEA from the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam and her Danish colleague Nils OLSEN from the National Space Institute/DTU Copenh ...
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China tries to calm unease over rare earths curbs
Sep 03, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A Chinese official tried to calm unease about curbs on exports of rare earths used in clean energy products and superconductors, saying Thursday that sales will continue but must be limited to reduce damage to China's ...
Rare earths are vital, and China owns them all
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 28, 2009 |
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Rare earths may not be on most investors' radars, but they are certainly in almost any high-tech item they use -- and in the world of rare earths, China is king.
32 New Exoplanets Found (w/ Video)
Oct 19, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Today, at an international ESO/CAUP exoplanet conference in Porto, the team who built the High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher, better known as HARPS, the spectrograph for ESO's 3.6-metre ...
Intel Launches Three New Quad-core Processors
Sep 08, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Intel has launched three new quad-core processors utilizing Intel's new Nehalem architecture. These processors, formerly codenamed Lynnfield, are aimed at desktop computers, as well as the ...
The continents as a heat blanket
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 22, 2009 |
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Drifting of the large tectonic plates and the superimposed continents is not only powered by the heat-driven convection processes in the Earth's mantle, but rather retroacts on this internal driving processes. In doing so, ...
A glimpse at the Earth's crust deep below the Atlantic
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Long-term variations in volcanism help explain the birth, evolution and death of striking geological features called oceanic core complexes on the ocean floor, says geologist Dr Bram Murton of the National ...
XMM-Newton takes astronomers to a black hole's edge
May 27, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Using new data from ESA's XMM-Newton spaceborne observatory, astronomers have probed closer than ever to a supermassive black hole lying deep at the core of a distant active galaxy.
The discovery of new Earths is imminent, UD astronomer says
Sep 28, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Harry Shipman, Annie Jump Cannon Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Delaware, told the audience for his lecture, “Seeking New Planets,” on Saturday evening, Sept. 26, ...
Intel Unveils Fastest Laptop Chips Ever With the New Intel Core i7 Mobile Processor
Sep 23, 2009 |
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Intel Corporation introduced its revolutionary Intel Core i7 Mobile Processor and Intel Core i7 Mobile Processor Extreme Edition today, bringing Intel’s award-winning and super-fast Nehalem microarchitecture ...
Searching for an interglacial on Greenland
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Aug 24, 2009 |
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The first season of the international drilling project NEEM (North Greenland Eemian Ice Drilling) in north-western Greenland was completed at August 20th.
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