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Ammonites found mini oases at ancient methane seeps

Research led by scientists at the American Museum of Natural History shows that ammonites—an extinct type of shelled mollusk that's closely related to modern-day nautiluses and squids—made homes ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study: 800-year-old farmers could teach us how to protect the Amazon

In the face of mass deforestation of the Amazon, we could learn from its earliest inhabitants who managed their farmland sustainably. Research from an international team of archaeologists and paleoecologists, ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (14) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

SAM I am

The Mars Science Laboratory is on its way to the red planet, and its rover Curiosity should touch down next summer. If the mission hits paydirt and comes across organic material, then one instrument in particular ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 06, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Strange hollows discovered on Mercury

NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft has discovered strange hollows on the surface of Mercury. Images taken from orbit reveal thousands of peculiar depressions at a variety of longitudes and latitudes, ranging in size ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 25, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (15) | comments 12 | with audio podcast

The landing-site specialist

(PhysOrg.com) -- Gale crater has been sitting just below the equator of Mars, minding its own business, for at least three and half billion years. But in August 2012, a capsule is going to come screaming out ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Planned Tanzanian soda ash plant threatens flamingoes

Salmon-coloured clouds of flamingoes sweeping overhead is a common sight at east Africa's Rift Valley lakes, but the mounds of mud where they lay their eggs are found only here.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Oct 17, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

NASA's next Mars rover to land at Gale Crater (w/ video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's next Mars rover will land at the foot of a layered mountain inside the planet's Gale crater.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jul 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

NASA says Mars mountain will read like 'a great novel'

The US space agency's unmanned Curiosity rover will explore a mountain on Mars that should read like "a great novel," revealing if signs of life ever existed on the red planet, NASA said Friday.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jul 22, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Packing the ions: Discovery boosts supercapacitor energy storage

Flat is in the eye of the beholder. When you're talking about nanomaterials, however, that eye is pretty much useless unless it's looking through an electron microscope or at a computer visualization. Yet ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jun 17, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (12) | comments 15 | with audio podcast

Marlborough mound revealed to be 4,400 years old

An earthen mound, in Wiltshire, England, named the Marlborough mound and situated on the grounds of the Marlborough boarding school, has been found to date back 4,400 years, giving it a much longer history ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Jun 03, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 5 | with audio podcast weblog


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