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A 'melted' moon makes for bad future landing sites
The miniature radio frequency (min-RF) radar instrument aboard the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is revealing some interesting things about how impact melts form around craters on the Moon. Impacts produce ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 05, 2012 |
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Researchers unearth ancient bronze artifact in Alaska
(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of researchers led by the University of Colorado Boulder recently discovered the first prehistoric bronze artifact made from a cast ever found in Alaska, a small, buckle-like object ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jan 05, 2012 |
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Whales in the desert: Fossil bonanza poses mystery
(AP) -- More than 2 million years ago, scores of whales congregating off the Pacific Coast of South America mysteriously met their end.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Nov 19, 2011 |
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Ancient bronze artifact from East Asia unearthed at Alaska archaeology site
A team of researchers led by the University of Colorado Boulder has discovered the first prehistoric bronze artifact made from a cast ever found in Alaska, a small, buckle-like object found in an ancient Eskimo ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Nov 14, 2011 |
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Iceland's Katla volcano is getting restless
(AP) -- If Iceland's air-traffic paralyzing volcanic eruption last year seemed catastrophic, just wait for the sequel. That's what some experts are saying as they nervously watch rumblings beneath a much ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 13, 2011 |
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Large variations in Arctic sea ice
For the last 10,000 years, summer sea ice in the Arctic Ocean has been far from constant. For several thousand years, there was much less sea ice in The Arctic Ocean – probably less than half of current ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 04, 2011 |
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Japan earthquake, tsunami spell need for preparedness
Perhaps lost in the recent debates related to the earthquake and tsunami in Japan is that natural disasters and not nuclear energy should be the focus, says Oak Ridge National Laboratory's John Sorensen, an emergency preparedness ...
Mar 29, 2011 |
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Fla. ridges' mystery marine fossils tied to rising land, not seas
Sea level has not been as high as the distinctive ridges that run down the length of Florida for millions of years. Yet recently deposited marine fossils abound in the ridges' sands.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 01, 2010 |
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Tahoe faces new development battle: green vs. green
As snow begins to blanket Lake Tahoe, the region finds itself facing a new kind of development battle: green vs. green.
Dec 03, 2009 |
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Fortuitous research provides first detailed documentation of tsunami erosion
(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time, a group of scientists working in the Kuril Islands off the east coast of Russia has documented the scope of tsunami-caused erosion and found that a wave can carry away ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 27, 2009 |
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