News tagged with earth
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Researchers create computer simulations of primordial black holes striking the Earth
(PhysOrg.com) -- Black holes have captured the imagination of scientists and amateur enthusiasts for years. The idea of some dark entity out there in the far reaches of space sucking up anything and everything ...
Mar 23, 2012 |
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NASA reschedules Va. suborbital rocket launches
(AP) -- NASA is again rescheduling the launch of five rockets from Virginia due to bad weather.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 22, 2012 |
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Earth's crust slowly being destroyed
(PhysOrg.com) -- New research shows that the Earth’s crust is now undergoing high rates of destruction.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 22, 2012 |
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Seismic survey at the Mariana trench will follow water dragged down into the Earth's mantle
(PhysOrg.com) -- Last month, Doug Wiens, PhD, professor of earth and planetary science at Washington University in St. Louis, was cruising the tropical waters of the western Pacific above the Mariana trench ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 22, 2012 |
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Scientists name Dorset crocodile after Kipling
(PhysOrg.com) -- A superbly preserved 130-million-year-old crocodile skull, discovered at Swanage in Dorset in 2009, has been described as belonging to a species new to science in a paper by researchers at ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Mar 22, 2012 |
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Scientists use rare mineral to correlate past climate events in Europe, Antarctica
The first day of spring brought record high temperatures across the northern part of the United States, while much of the Southwest was digging out from a record-breaking spring snowstorm. The weather, it seems, has gone ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 21, 2012 |
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Study of Patagonian Glacier's rise and fall adds to understanding of global climate change
(PhysOrg.com) -- Glaciers play a vital role in Earth’s climate system, and it’s critical to understand what contributes to their fluctuation.
Mar 21, 2012 |
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'Weather in a tank' demonstration helps students grasp fluid dynamics
Fluid dynamics plays a central role in determining Earth’s climate. Ocean currents and eddies stir up contents from the deep, while atmospheric winds and weather systems steer temperature and moisture around the globe. ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 21, 2012 |
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Japan, US, and EU to meet on rare earths
Japan said Wednesday it will host the European Union and United States at a meeting on developing alternatives for rare earths as Chinese controls on the key minerals raise fears of a supply squeeze.
Mar 21, 2012 |
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SpaceX, NASA readies for April 30 launch to ISS
Preparations for the April 30 launch of the SpaceX's Dragon commercial spacecraft to the International Space Station are underway without major problems, a top NASA official said Tuesday.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 20, 2012 |
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The oldest evidence of bioturbation on Earth
The Ediacaran Period, an interval in Earth's history after the Snowball Earth glaciations but before the Cambrian radiations, marks the introduction of complex macroscopic organisms synchronously in unrelated groups. It has ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 20, 2012 |
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NASA's new 'Earth now' app: your world, unplugged
A free, new iPhone app from NASA literally puts the whole world in the palm of your hands. "Earth Now" immerses cyber explorers in dazzling visualizations of near-real-time global climate data from NASA's ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 20, 2012 |
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Rock sleuths: Researchers seek clues to atmospheric changes ahead of animal life
For more than a decade, scientists have dismissed claims that examining carbon-rich rocks could yield clues to the atmospheric and oceanic conditions on Earth hundreds of millions of years ago, but now researchers ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 20, 2012 |
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Cassini plasma spectrometer resumes operations
(PhysOrg.com) -- The Cassini plasma spectrometer instrument (CAPS) aboard NASA's Cassini spacecraft at Saturn has resumed operations. Mission managers received confirmation on Friday, March 16, that it was ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 19, 2012 |
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Global sea level likely to rise as much as 70 feet for future generations
Even if humankind manages to limit global warming to 2 degrees C (3.6 degrees F), as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recommends, future generations will have to deal with sea levels 12 to 22 meters (40 to 70 ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 19, 2012 |
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