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NASA to Explore 'Secret Layer' of the Sun

NASA to Explore 'Secret Layer' of the Sun

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Sep 08, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (29) | comments 0

Next April, for a grand total of 8 minutes, NASA astronomers are going to glimpse a secret layer of the sun.





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MSU scientists to design optics for new solar mission

MSU scientists to design optics for new solar mission

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jul 24, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Montana State University scientists are involved in a new space mission to figure out how energy is transferred through the sun's atmosphere.


MSU scientists to design optics for new solar mission

MSU scientists to design optics for new solar mission

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Aug 31, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

Montana State University scientists are involved in a new space mission to figure out how energy is transferred through the sun's atmosphere.


The First Antarctic Ice Sheet

CO2 drop and global cooling caused Antarctic glacier to form

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Feb 26, 2009 | popularity 3.1 / 5 (20) | comments 18

(PhysOrg.com) -- Global climate rapidly shifted from a relatively ice-free world to one with massive ice sheets on Antarctica about 34 million years ago. What happened? What changed? A team of scientists ...


Health varies widely across different regions of Mexico

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jun 17, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A new study of the burden of disease and injury across Mexico has found that the south suffers the highest rates of infectious and nutritional diseases, injuries, and non-communicable diseases. The study, by researchers at ...


Experiments challenge models about the deep Earth

Experiments challenge models about the deep Earth

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 20, 2007 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (39) | comments 0

In the first experiments able to mimic the crushing, searing conditions found in Earth’s lower mantle, and simultaneously probe tell-tale properties of iron, scientists have discovered that material there ...


Tectonic signatures at Aeolis Mensae

Tectonic signatures at Aeolis Mensae

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jun 28, 2007 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (8) | comments 0

The High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board Mars Express has provided snapshots of the Aeolis Mensae region. This area, well known for its wind-eroded features, lies on a tectonic transition zone, characterised ...


Sub-Saharan Africa: the population emergency

Other Sciences / Other

created Jan 08, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (9) | comments 0

Sub-Saharan Africa has been experiencing phenomenal population growth since the beginning of the XXth Century, following several centuries of population stagnation attributable to the slave trade and colonization. The region’s ...


Earth

Earth's getting 'soft' in the middle

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 24, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (19) | comments 2

Since we can’t sample the deepest regions of the Earth, scientists watch the velocity of seismic waves as they travel through the planet to determine the composition and density of that material. Now a new ...


Physicists make crystal/liquid interface visible for first time

Physicists make crystal/liquid interface visible for first time

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Aug 11, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (11) | comments 13

"Imagine you're a water molecule in a glass of ice water, and you're floating right on the boundary of the ice and the water," proposes Emory University physicist Eric Weeks. "So how do you know if you're ...


Evolution by Steps

'Fishapod' reveals origins of head and neck structures of first land animals

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Oct 15, 2008 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (17) | comments 6

(PhysOrg.com) -- Newly exposed parts of Tiktaalik roseae--the intermediate fossil between fish and the first animals to walk out of water onto land 375 million years ago--are revealing how this major evolutionary ...



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