Deserts 'breathe' water vapor, study shows
Deserts may seem lifeless and inert, but they are very much alive. Sand dunes, in particular, grow and move—and according to a decades long research project, they also breathe humid air.
Deserts may seem lifeless and inert, but they are very much alive. Sand dunes, in particular, grow and move—and according to a decades long research project, they also breathe humid air.
Earth Sciences
Mar 30, 2022
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The self-organized and rhythmical shapes of sand waves/dunes and related physical mechanisms are always attractive to scientists. Massive studies have been deployed on the formation, dynamics, evolution of individual dunes ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 24, 2022
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Biological soil crusts are communities of cyanobacteria, fungi, lichens, and other living organisms that can bind grains together and reduce the susceptibility of soils to erosion by water or wind. Crusts dominated by cyanobacteria, ...
Ecology
Mar 18, 2022
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Nothing says springtime on Mars like defrosting dunes.
Planetary Sciences
Mar 17, 2022
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University of Chicago scientists have been able to create a new kind of quantum object at will in the laboratory: "domain walls."
Quantum Physics
Feb 11, 2022
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Thousands of migratory birds have failed to make their annual visit to Albania's western coast this winter, experts say, pointing to climate change, overfishing and urbanisation as likely factors.
Ecology
Feb 8, 2022
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Sun, surf, sand, sea—and public sex with strangers. These five S's are a key part of tourism in the Canary Islands, a Spanish archipelago west of Morocco. Unfortunately, what's fun for humans can be bad for wildlife.
Ecology
Nov 10, 2021
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Cambridge scientists have used downscaled laboratory models to show how sand dunes move through a landscape, revealing the conditions that determine whether they will pass through hurdles in their path—like pipelines or ...
General Physics
Oct 26, 2021
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While Mars is known as the red planet, a variety of colors can be found on the planet's surface. Just like on Earth, the array of colors we can see in images from Mars comes from the diverse minerals on or just under the ...
Planetary Sciences
Oct 13, 2021
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Dunes develop when wind-blown sand organizes into patterns, most often in deserts and arid or semi-arid parts of the world. Every continent on Earth has dune fields, but dunes and dune-like sand patterns are also found across ...
Planetary Sciences
Sep 30, 2021
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