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Iceberg Scour Affects Biodiversity
Jul 17, 2008 |
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Antarctic worms, sea spiders, urchins and other marine creatures living in near-shore shallow habitats are regularly pounded by icebergs. New data suggests this environment along the Antarctic Peninsula is ...
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Iceberg crashes into Drygalski Ice Tongue
Apr 08, 2006 |
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An iceberg, C-16, rammed into the Drygalski Ice Tongue, a large sheet of glacial ice in Antarctica, breaking off a huge block and forming a new iceberg.
Envisat Captures Splitting iIceberg
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 14, 2008 |
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Envisat captures the break up of the massive A53A iceberg located just east of the South Georgia Island (visible at image bottom) in the southern Atlantic Ocean.
Birth of an iceberg
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 19, 2007 |
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New images, acquired by Envisat’s Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR) instrument, show the breaking away of a giant iceberg from the Pine Island Glacier in West Antarctica. Spanning 34 km in length by ...
Google digs deeper into Internet search results
Sep 25, 2009 |
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Google on Friday said it has enhanced its popular Internet search engine to dig deeper into pages to uncover the exact tidbits of information people seek.
Sociologist Says This Month's Family Murder-Suicides Only 'the Tip of the Iceberg'
Jan 30, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A family sociologist at the University at Buffalo says this month's murder-suicides involving a family of four in Ohio and a family of five in California may be "just the tip of the iceberg."
Brain energy use key to understanding consciousness
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jun 16, 2009 |
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High levels of brain energy are required to maintain consciousness, a finding which suggests a new way to understand the properties of this still mysterious state of being, Yale University researchers report.
Google refines searches for pictures and news
Apr 21, 2009 |
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Google on Monday unveiled software tools that let people search the Internet using pictures or chronologically organize results of queries for news.
Speed matters for ice-shelf breaking
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 27, 2008 |
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It won't help the Titanic, but a newly derived, simple law may help scientists improve their climate models and glaciologists predict where icebergs will calve off from their parent ice sheets, according to a team of Penn ...
Hormone-mimics in plastic water bottles -- just the tip of the iceberg?
Mar 26, 2009 |
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In an analysis1 of commercially available mineral waters, the researchers found evidence of estrogenic compounds leaching out of the plastic packaging into the water. What's more, these chemicals are potent in vivo and result ...
US swine flu cases up to 37,000
Jul 10, 2009 |
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(AP) -- U.S. health officials say swine flu activity is dying down a bit, but the number of cases has surpassed 37,000 and deaths hit 211.
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