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Avalanches -- triggered from the valley

Avalanches -- triggered from the valley

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 02, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Everybody knows that skiers swishing down steep slopes can cause extensive slab avalanches. But there is a less well known phenomenon: A person skiing a gentle slope in the valley triggers a slab avalanche ...





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Farms, Fertilizers and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Farms, Fertilizers and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists are front and center in finding out how farming affects emissions of the green house nitrous oxide (N2O).


Understanding ocean climate

Understanding ocean climate

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

High-resolution computer simulations performed by scientists at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (NOCS) are helping to understand the inflow of North Atlantic water to the Arctic Ocean and how ...


Battery Research Aims To Store Renewable Energy

Battery Research Aims To Store Renewable Energy

Technology / Energy

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (14) | comments 6

The biggest chemical battery in the United States is located near Interstate 90 in the small town of Luverne, Minn. The 80 ton device -- the size of two tractor-trailers stacked on top of each other -- stores ...


Taking a Bite of Antarctic Ice

Taking a Bite of Antarctic Ice

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Scientists with NASA’s IceBite project are heading this week for University Valley, a hanging valley perched more than 1600 feet (more than 1 mile) above sea level in Antarctica’s McMurdo Dry Valleys. Their ...


LCROSS Impact Data Indicates Water on Moon

LCROSS Impact Finds Water on the Moon

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (31) | comments 15

(PhysOrg.com) -- The argument that the moon is a dry, desolate place no longer holds water. Secrets the moon has been holding, for perhaps billions of years, are now being revealed to the delight of scientists ...


2 Earth-sized bodies with oxygen rich atmospheres found -- but they're stars not planets

Two Earth-sized bodies with oxygen rich atmospheres found -- but they're stars not planets

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (21) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Astrophysicists at the University of Warwick and Kiel University have discovered two earth sized bodies with oxygen rich atmospheres - however there is a bit of a disappointing snag for anyone ...


Nocturnal wind maximum mapped for first time

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

On beautiful, sunny days with quiet weather conditions a strong wind develops in the evening at a height of about 200 metres.


Snows Of Kilimanjaro shrinking rapidly, and likely to be lost

Snows Of Kilimanjaro shrinking rapidly, and likely to be lost

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (7) | comments 3

The remaining ice fields atop famed Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania could be gone within two decades and perhaps even sooner, based on the latest survey of the ice fields remaining on the mountain .


The Sun's Sneaky Variability

The Sun's Sneaky Variability

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (11) | comments 5

Every 11 years, the sun undergoes a furious upheaval. Dark sunspots burst forth from beneath the sun's surface. Explosions as powerful as a billion atomic bombs spark intense flares of high-energy radiation. ...


perception

Sensory deprivation can produce hallucinations in only 15 minutes

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Oct 23, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (17) | comments 8

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study has found that even a short period of sensory deprivation is enough to produce hallucinations even in people who are not normally prone to them.



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