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Water table depth tied to droughts in Great Plains
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 01, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Will there be another “dust bowl” in the Great Plains similar to the one that swept the region in the 1930s? It depends on water storage underground. Groundwater depth has a significant effect ...
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Phoenix Lander Finishes Soil Delivery to Onboard Labs
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 22, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has finished scooping soil samples to deliver to its onboard laboratories, and is now preparing to analyze samples already obtained. Scientists are anxious to analyze ...
Solving a subatomic shell game: Physicists decode hidden properties of the rare Earths
Mar 23, 2009 |
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Physicists at Michigan Technological University have filled in some longtime blank spaces on the periodic table, calculating electron affinities of the lanthanides, a series of 15 elements known as rare earths.
Phoenix Lander Digs and Analyzes Soil as Darkness Gathers
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 09, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- As fall approaches Mars' northern plains, NASA's Phoenix Lander is busy digging into the Red Planet's soil and scooping it into its onboard science laboratories for analysis.
Autosub6000 dives to depth of 3.5 miles
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 28, 2009 |
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The United Kingdom's deepest diving Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV), Autosub6000, has been put through its paces during an extremely successful engineering trials cruise on the RRS Discovery, 27 September ...
Iron-arsenic superconductors in class of their own
Apr 29, 2009 |
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Physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory have experimentally demonstrated that the superconductivity mechanism in the recently-discovered iron-arsenide superconductors is unique compared to all other ...
Oceanographers examine mercury levels of pelagic fish in Hawaii
Sep 01, 2009 |
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In the open ocean, species of large predatory fish will swim and hunt for food at various depths, which leads to unique diets in these fish. Oceanographers and geologists in the School of Ocean and Earth Science ...
New potential for inorganic materials after metal forms unexpected bonds
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Apr 03, 2006 |
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The research, published in last week's Science, shows that it is possible to create extended chains of indium-indium single bonds. This is surprising because the ability to form bonds between like elements was th ...
Stay focused: Researchers sharpen photographs by capturing multiple low-quality images
Technology / Computer Sciences
Sep 30, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- For photographers, it's sometimes difficult to keep both the foreground and background of an image in focus. Focusing somewhere between the two can ensure that neither is blurry; but neither ...
Theory about long and short-term memory questioned
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Nov 09, 2009 |
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The long-held theory that our brains use different mechanisms for forming long-term and short-term memories has been challenged by new research from UCL, published today in PNAS.
Review: $99 WikiReader is a pocket encyclopedia
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Oct 28, 2009 |
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(AP) -- When I was a kid, my dad bought a copy of the Encyclopedia Britannica. It had 32 volumes and took up 4 feet in the book case. I loved to sit on the couch and flip through it, reading articles at random.
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