News tagged with upper layer
UN scientists say ozone layer depletion has stopped
The protective ozone layer in the earth's upper atmosphere has stopped thinning and should largely be restored by mid century thanks to a ban on harmful chemicals, UN scientists said on Thursday.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 16, 2010 |
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Ozone layer depletion leveling off
By merging more than a decade of atmospheric data from European satellites, scientists have compiled a homogeneous long-term ozone record that allows them to monitor total ozone trends on a global scale - ...
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Sep 21, 2009 |
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Golden retrievers help scientists track human disease genes
A team of EU-funded researchers has successfully identified a gene that triggers a skin disorder in dogs - and the findings could have implications for humans who also suffer from the condition. Whether it ...
Jan 31, 2012 |
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CU-Boulder-led team to assess decline of Arctic sea ice in Alaska's Beaufort Sea
(PhysOrg.com) -- A national research team led by the University of Colorado Boulder is embarking on a two-year, multi-pronged effort to better understand the impacts of environmental factors associated with ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 26, 2012 |
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Scientists design solar cells that exceed the conventional light-trapping limit
(PhysOrg.com) -- The best performing solar cells are those that are thick enough to absorb light from the entire solar spectrum, while the cheapest solar cells are thin ones, since they require less, and potentially ...
Jan 20, 2012 |
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New research shows 1992 earthquake in Pakistan was due to rare horizontal shift
(PhysOrg.com) -- The media (and school teachers, of course) has done a very good job of informing most people about how earthquakes work. We can all very easily imagine two great plates rubbing against one ...
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Jan 16, 2012 |
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Mars-bound NASA rover aiming for an August landing
A NASA spacecraft hurtling toward Mars prepared to fire its thrusters Wednesday to put itself on course for an August landing.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 11, 2012 |
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Infrared detector unmasks cocaine addicts
A research group at ETH Zurich is currently developing an infrared measuring technique to enable the detection of cocaine and its metabolites in saliva. The initial steps towards a portable measuring device ...
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Jan 11, 2012 |
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Mars-bound NASA rover adjusts course to red planet (Update)
Firing on all engines, NASA's latest rover to Mars executed a course adjustment Wednesday that put it on track for a landing on the red planet in August.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 12, 2012 |
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Could Siberian volcanism have caused the Earth's largest extinction event?
Around 250 million years ago, at the end of the Permian geologic period, there was a mass extinction so severe that it remains the most traumatic known species die-off in Earth's history. Although the cause ...
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Jan 09, 2012 |
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Russian river water unexpected culprit behind Arctic freshening near US, Canada
and not just regional forces – has caused record-breaking amounts of freshwater to accumulate in the Arctic's Beaufort Sea.
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Jan 04, 2012 |
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Flipped from head to toe: 100 years of continental drift theory
Exactly 100 years ago, on 6 January 1912, Alfred Wegener presented his theory of continental drift to the public for the first time. At a meeting of the Geological Association in Frankfurt's Senckenberg Museum, he revealed ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 04, 2012 |
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