News tagged with impact
LCROSS Captures All Phases of Centaur Impact
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 18, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA’s Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) was a smashing success, returning tantalizing data about the Centaur impact before the spacecraft itself impacted the surface ...
Giant impact near India -- not Mexico -- may have doomed dinosaurs
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 15, 2009 |
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A mysterious basin off the coast of India could be the largest, multi-ringed impact crater the world has ever seen. And if a new study is right, it may have been responsible for killing the dinosaurs off 65 ...
Buying green can be license for bad behavior, study finds
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 07, 2009 |
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Those lyin', cheatin' green consumers. Just being around green products can make us behave more altruistically, a new study to be published in a forthcoming issue of Psychological Science has found.
Dinosaur-Killer was Soft on Algae
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 02, 2009 |
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The asteroid impact that many researchers claim was the cause of the dinosaur die-off was bad news for marine life at the time as well. But new research shows that microalgae - one of the primary producers ...
Black rat does not bother Mediterranean seabirds
Oct 02, 2009 |
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Human activities have meant invasive species have been able to populate parts of the world to which they are not native and alter biodiversity there over thousands of years. Now, an international team of scientists ...
Australian town in 'world-first' bottled water ban
Sep 26, 2009 |
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An Australian town pulled all bottled water from its shelves Saturday and replaced it with refillable bottles in what is believed to be a world-first ban.
Second concussion can be serious for young athletes
Sep 22, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Sustaining a second concussion shortly after a first one can lead to serious problems for young athletes, making it extremely important for players to be correctly diagnosed after being hit in the head.
Space Hand-Me-Downs
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 18, 2009 |
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Molecules vital to life have been detected in outer space and isolated in meteorites and comets. Some of this material that rained down on Earth may have jump-started biology. If so, these space seeds also ...
New NASA temperature maps provide 'whole new way of seeing the moon'
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 17, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's first-ever moon temperature-mapping effort has returned its first data.
NASA Lunar Satellite Begins Detailed Mapping of Moon's South Pole
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 17, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA reported Thursday that its Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, has successfully completed its testing and calibration phase and entered its mapping orbit of the moon.
Impact of renewable energy on our oceans must be investigated, say scientists
Sep 17, 2009 |
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Scientists from the Universities of Exeter and Plymouth are today calling for urgent research to understand the impact of renewable energy developments on marine life. The study, now published in the Journal of ...
Researcher thinks 'inside the box' to create self-contained wastewater system for soldiers, small towns
Sep 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Cheaper. Better. Faster. Most people will say you can't have all three. But don't tell that to Dr. Jianmin Wang, a professor of civil, architectural and environmental engineering at Missouri ...
Jupiter had temporary moon for 12 years
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 14, 2009 |
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Comet 147P/Kushida-Muramatsu was captured as a temporary moon of Jupiter in the mid-20th century and remained trapped in an irregular orbit for about twelve years.
Catastrophic Darkness: How Life Survives an Asteroid Impact
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 10, 2009 |
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A dinosaur-killing asteroid may have wiped out much of life on Earth 65 million years ago, but now scientists have discovered how smaller organisms might have survived in the darkness following such a catastrophic ...
Air pollution is reducing the amount of rain in China
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 31, 2009 |
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Air pollution in eastern China during the last 50 years has led to a reduction in the amount of light rainfall of almost a quarter. This is revealed by an international study conducted with support from the University of ...
