Archive: 10/24/2006
New, hands-on science demos teach young students how volcanoes 'blow their tops,' spew lava
A popular volcano demonstration in grade school science class rivets students' attention as it spews bubbly liquid over a tabletop, but it comes up short in explaining all the ways that volcanoes form and evolve.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 24, 2006 |
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Soot from wood stoves in developing world impacts global warming more than expected
New measurements of soot produced by traditional cook stoves used in developing countries suggest that these stoves emit more harmful smoke particles and could have a much greater impact on global climate change ...
Oct 24, 2006 |
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Hubble yields direct proof of stellar sorting in a globular cluster
Imagine trying to understand how a football game works based on just a few fuzzy snapshots of the game in play. This is the just the kind of challenge faced by astronomers trying to understand the dynamics ...
Oct 24, 2006 |
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When is a supersolid not quite so super?
A deceptively simple experiment, recently published in the journal Science, has moved physics one step closer to explaining the odd behavior of supersolid helium. The unusual state of matter – in which a port ...
Oct 24, 2006 |
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Amazon River Once Flowed in Opposite Direction
The world's largest river basin, the Amazon, once flowed from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific - opposite its present direction - according to research by a geology graduate student and his advisor at the University of North ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 24, 2006 |
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Scientists present method for entangling macroscopic objects
Building upon recent studies on optomechanical entanglement with lasers and mirrors, a group of scientists has developed a theoretical model using entanglement swapping in order to entangle two micromechanical ...
Oct 24, 2006 |
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