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Ice cream researchers making sweet strides with 'functional foods' (w/ Video)

Chemistry / Other

Nov 09, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

A comfort food, a tasty treat, an indulgence - ice cream conjures feelings of happiness and satisfaction for millions. Ice cream researchers at the University of Missouri have discovered ways to make ice cream ...

Giant Antarctic iceberg heads towards N.Zealand: experts

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Nov 12, 2009 | 2.3 / 5 (7) | 0

A giant iceberg twice the length of Beijing's "Bird's Nest" Stadium has been spotted floating off Australia and could be headed for New Zealand, scientists said on Thursday.

Mysteriously warm times in Antarctica

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Nov 18, 2009 | 4.2 / 5 (26) | 31

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study of Antarctica's past climate reveals that temperatures during the warm periods between ice ages (interglacials) may have been higher than previously thought. The latest analysis ...

Greenland ice cap melting faster than ever

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Nov 12, 2009 | 3.6 / 5 (32) | 25

Satellite observations and a state-of-the art regional atmospheric model have independently confirmed that the Greenland ice sheet is loosing mass at an accelerating rate, reports a new study in Science.

Newly drilled ice cores may be the longest taken from the Andes

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Nov 02, 2009 | 3.7 / 5 (3) | 0

Researchers spent two months this summer high in the Peruvian Andes and brought back two cores, the longest ever drilled from ice fields in the tropics.

Scientist develops lab machine to study glacial sliding related to rising sea levels

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Nov 10, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

Neal Iverson opened his laboratory's walk-in freezer and said the one-of-a-kind machine inside could help scientists understand how glaciers slide across their beds. And that could help researchers predict ...

Snows Of Kilimanjaro shrinking rapidly, and likely to be lost

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Nov 02, 2009 | 3.9 / 5 (7) | 3

The remaining ice fields atop famed Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania could be gone within two decades and perhaps even sooner, based on the latest survey of the ice fields remaining on the mountain .

LSU gets to the bottom of things -- in Antarctica

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Nov 24, 2009 | 4.3 / 5 (3) | 1

Antarctica has long held secrets of the earth's history locked in its icy depths, and until recently, there has been very little information on the environments that have been sealed beneath miles of ice for millions of years. ...

Past climate of the northern Antarctic Peninsular informs global warming debate

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Nov 06, 2009 | 2.8 / 5 (9) | 1

The seriousness of current global warming is underlined by a reconstruction of climate at Maxwell Bay in the South Shetland Islands of the Antarctic Peninsula over approximately the last 14,000 years, which ...

Icebreaker: Scientist brings out big gun to explore behavior of ice in planetary collisions

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Oct 29, 2009 | not rated yet | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Every month, Sarah Stewart-Mukhopadhyay fires her 20-foot gun in the basement of Harvard's Hoffman Lab, sending shivers through the concrete and steel structure that can be picked up by seismometers ...

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