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The least sea ice in 800 years

The least sea ice in 800 years

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jul 01, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (66) | comments 77

New research, which reconstructs the extent of ice in the sea between Greenland and Svalbard from the 13th century to the present indicates that there has never been so little sea ice as there is now. The ...


New Technology Allows Geophysicist To Test Theory About Formation of Hawaii (w/ Podcast)

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- If you've ever been to Hawaii, you probably spent your time enjoying the scenery of the beautiful islands, rather than wondering how they got to be there in the first place. But that's just what scientists ...


Researchers from France and Turkey scanned the Marmara's seabed over six weeks

Underwater gas may hold clues on Turkey quake risk

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Natural gas that lies under Turkey's Marmara Sea close to Istanbul could provide advance warning of an earthquake experts believe will hit the country's largest city, scientists said on Tuesday.





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As the World Churns

As the World Churns

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 28, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (14) | comments 25

(PhysOrg.com) -- "Terra firma." It's Latin for "solid Earth." Most of the time, at least from our perspective here on the ground, Earth seems to be just that: solid. Yet the Earth beneath our feet is actually ...


Yellowstone's plumbing exposed

Yellowstone's plumbing exposed

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (49) | comments 18

(PhysOrg.com) -- The most detailed seismic images yet published of the plumbing that feeds the Yellowstone supervolcano shows a plume of hot and molten rock rising at an angle from the northwest at a depth ...


Record-Breaking Radio Astronomy Project to Measure Sky with Extreme Precision

Record-Breaking Radio Astronomy Project to Measure Sky with Extreme Precision

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers will tie together the largest collection of the world's radio telescopes ever assembled to work as a single observing tool in a project aimed at improving the precision of the ...


New funding will stimulate alternative energy research

Technology / Energy

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Initiatives to provide geothermal heating or power at the Pueblo of Jemez and the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology campus are receiving Los Alamos National Laboratory assistance, thanks to recent American Reinvestment ...


German scientists produce first Bose-Einstein condensate with calcium atoms

German scientists produce first Bose-Einstein condensate with calcium atoms

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 22, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 0

Physicists at the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (Germany) have succeeded in producing a Bose-Einstein condensate from the alkaline earth element calcium. The use of alkaline earth atoms creates new ...


New technology cleans up Visalia Superfund 100 years ahead of schedule

Space & Earth / Environment

created Sep 21, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's technology was instrumental in cleaning up Southern California Edison's Visalia Pole Yard, which is scheduled to be taken off the Environmental Protection Agency's Superfund list this ...


Hiking, horses and helicopter: Scientists deploy seismic network for study of Sierra Negra, Galapagos

Scientists deploy seismic network for study of Sierra Negra, Galapagos

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Aug 12, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

An interdisciplinary team of scientists from the University of Miami (UM), University of Rochester, University of Idaho-Moscow and the Instituto Geofísico, Escuela Politécnica Nacional (Quito, ...


Shaking the Earth: Just add water

Shaking the Earth: How Water Helps Tectonic Plates Slide in New Zealand

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Aug 05, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (6) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- New Zealand is the site of one of the world’s youngest subduction zones, where the Pacific Plate of Earth’s crust dives beneath the Australian Plate. Now, a University of Utah study shows ...


Electric fish

Electric fish could spark healthcare innovation

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Jun 19, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (5) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Mathematicians in Manchester are hoping electric fish can give them clues to solving a fiendishly complex mathematical problem - which could in turn lead to better treatment for patients with ...


Earth Magnetic Field

The Earth's magnetic field remains a charged mystery

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jun 15, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (26) | comments 20

400 years of discussion and we’re still not sure what creates the Earth’s magnetic field, and thus the magnetosphere, despite the importance of the latter as the only buffer between us and deadly solar wind ...



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