News tagged with dead sea
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Back to the dead (sea, that is)
They'll drill through four ice ages, epic sandstorms, mankind's migration from Africa to the New World, and the biggest droughts in history. Tel Aviv University is heading an international study that for the ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 23, 2010 |
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As the Dead Sea dries, drilling shows it's not the first time
(PhysOrg.com) -- In the first project of its kind, scientists are drilling deep into the bed of the fast-shrinking Dead Sea, searching for clues to past climate changes and other events that may have affected ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 22, 2010 |
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Scientists drill beneath Dead Sea in search of priceless data
If you thought you couldn't get any lower than the Dead Sea, think again. You can go under it.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 21, 2010 |
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Oceans where fishes choke
(PhysOrg.com) -- Australian marine scientists have expressed disquiet over the continued worldwide spread of large, dead zones in the ocean.
Nov 30, 2010 |
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Air above Dead Sea contains very high levels of oxidized mercury
Measurements show that the sea's salt has profound effects on the chemistry of the air above its surface.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 29, 2010 |
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Scientists dig below Dead Sea for slice of Earth's history
An international team of scientists has begun drilling deep below the Dead Sea in an effort to extract material that could provide an unusual look at Earth's history over the past 500,000 years.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 17, 2010 |
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Google to bring Dead Sea Scrolls online
The Dead Sea Scrolls, among the world's most important, mysterious and tightly restricted archaeological treasures, are about to get Googled.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Oct 19, 2010 |
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Without oxygen, 'nothing goes' -- Marine biologists get to the bottom of dead zones
The behaviour of marine bottom dwellers can now, for the first time, be used to predict the development of so-called dead zones in the sea. Animals fight for what little oxygen there is in these zones - but ...
Jul 26, 2010 |
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Small fish exploits forbidding environment
Jellyfish moved into the oceans off the coast of southwest Africa when the sardine population crashed. Now another small fish is living in the oxygen-depleted zone part-time and turning the once ecologically ...
Jul 15, 2010 |
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Protons for studying the Dead Sea Scrolls
Researchers of the National Laboratories of the South (LNS) in Catania of the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN, Italy's National Institute for Nuclear Physics) have shed light on the origin of one of the extraordinary ...
Jul 02, 2010 |
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Jordan River could die by 2011: report
The once mighty Jordan River, where Christians believe Jesus was baptised, is now little more than a polluted stream that could die next year unless the decay is halted, environmentalists said on Monday.
May 02, 2010 |
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Dead Sea-dwelling microbes reveal roots of protein common to all higher life forms
(PhysOrg.com) -- We have more in common with Dead Sea-dwelling microbes than previously thought. University of Florida researchers have found that one of the most common proteins in complex life forms may have evolved from ...
Jan 11, 2010 |
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Most ancient Hebrew biblical inscription deciphered
Professor Gershon Galil of the department of biblical studies at the University of Haifa has deciphered an inscription dating from the 10th century BCE (the period of King David's reign), and has shown that ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jan 07, 2010 |
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Modern behavior of early humans found half-million years earlier than previously thought
Evidence of sophisticated, human behavior has been discovered by Hebrew University of Jerusalem researchers as early as 750,000 years ago - some half a million years earlier than has previously been estimated ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Dec 22, 2009 |
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Dead Sea needs world help to stay alive
The Dead Sea may soon shrink to a lifeless pond as Middle East political strife blocks vital measures needed to halt the decay of the world's lowest and saltiest body of water, experts say.
Nov 24, 2009 |
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