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What goes down, must come up: Geoscientists offer new model for degassing of Earth's mantle

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 27, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (5) | comments 4

A new analysis of the processes that constantly stir the Earth's deep mantle is helping to explain how the mantle holds onto a portion of ancient noble gases that were trapped during the Earth's formation.





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Ski Runs Are Not Created Equal

Space & Earth / Environment

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(PhysOrg.com) -- Building a new ski run by bulldozing a mountainside rather than only cutting its shrubs and trees is far more damaging ecologically, yet might offer only a week's earlier start to the downhill season, says ...


MIT's big wheel in Copenhagen

Biking 2.0: MIT's big wheel in Copenhagen (w/ Video)

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (13) | comments 6

Yesterday, Dec. 15, at the Copenhagen Conference on Climate Change, MIT researchers debuted the Copenhagen Wheel -- a revolutionary new bicycle wheel that not only boosts power, but can keep track of friends, ...


Exploring energy efficiency in multi-scale computing systems

Exploring energy efficiency in multi-scale computing systems

Technology / Other

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The University of California, San Diego and nine other universities are members of a new research center charged with finding ways to improve the design of computing systems ranging from large data centers ...


Researchers discover novel method for detecting MIRCERA

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

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

Austrian researchers have successfully developed a new electrophoretic method for detecting MIRCERAź and other erythropoietins (EPO) in the blood. The technique, using SARCOSYL-PAGE, has specifically enhanced sensitivity ...


Icy moons of Saturn and Jupiter may have conditions needed for life

Icy moons of Saturn and Jupiter may have conditions needed for life

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (16) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists once thought that life could originate only within a solar system's "habitable zone," where a planet would be neither too hot nor too cold for liquid water to exist on its surface. ...


Tremors between slip events: More evidence of great quake danger to Seattle

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (8) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- For most of a decade, scientists have documented unfelt and slow-moving seismic events, called episodic tremor and slip, showing up in regular cycles under the Olympic Peninsula of Washington state and Vancouver ...


From greenhouse to icehouse -- reconstructing the environment of the Voring Plateau

From greenhouse to icehouse -- reconstructing the environment of the Voring Plateau

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (7) | comments 1

The analysis of microfossils found in ocean sediment cores is illuminating the environmental conditions that prevailed at high latitudes during a critical period of Earth history.


World's mayors tackle climate change on their own (AP)

World's mayors tackle climate change on their own

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(AP) -- It isn't easy getting Italy's city dwellers out of their Fiats, off their Vespa scooters and onto bicycles to ride to work, "like here in Copenhagen," says an Italian environmental official.


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 ...


More 20 mph zones in London would prevent 100 killed or seriously injured casualties each year

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

20 mph traffic speed zones reduce casualties by 41.9% with the greatest reduction in child casualties, according to research published today in the British Medical Journal.



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