News tagged with geophysical principles

Unifying The Animate And The Inanimate Designs Of Nature

(PhysOrg.com) -- Living beings and inanimate phenomena may have more in common than previously thought.

Biology / Evolution

created Apr 28, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (10) | comments 4




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Finding fingerprints in sea level rise

It was used to help Apollo astronauts navigate in space, and has since been applied to problems as diverse as economics and weather forecasting, but Harvard scientists are now using a powerful statistical tool to not only ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 18, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (12) | comments 11 | with audio podcast

Watching the planet breathe

Scientists have come up with an entirely new way to monitor the health of Earth’s plants from space. In work published in Geophysical Research Letters, researchers working at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Labora ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

First ever direct measurement of the Earth's rotation

A group with researchers of the Technical University of Munich, Germany, are the first to plot changes in the Earth's axis through laboratory measurements. To do this, they constructed the world's most stable ...

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 22, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (9) | comments 12 | with audio podcast

Blooming ocean fronts

Each spring, huge patches of phytoplankton bloom in the oceans, turning cold, blue waters into teeming green pools of microbial life. This ocean “greening,” which can be seen from space, mirrors ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 04, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Impact study: Princeton model shows fallout of a giant meteorite strike

(PhysOrg.com) -- Seeking to better understand the level of death and destruction that would result from a large meteorite striking the Earth, Princeton University researchers have developed a new model that ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 19, 2011 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (10) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Research shows how life might have survived 'snowball Earth'

Global glaciation likely put a chill on life on Earth hundreds of millions of years ago, but new research indicates that simple life in the form of photosynthetic algae could have survived in a narrow body ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 11, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (9) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Developing more accurate cold atom accelerometers

For the first time, a team of French physicists, supported by CNES and ESA, has succeeded in developing a vibration-resistant cold atom accelerometer. Tested in parabolic flight, this prototype was able to ...

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 4

Messenger orbital data confirm theories, reveal surprises

On March 18, 2011, the MESSENGER spacecraft entered orbit around Mercury to become that planet's first orbiter. The spacecraft's instruments are making a complete reconnaissance of the planet's geochemistry, ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jun 16, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (16) | comments 24 | with audio podcast

A seismograph for ancient earthquakes

Earthquakes are one of the world's biggest enigmas -- impossible to predict and able to wreak untold damage within seconds. Now, a new tool from Tel Aviv University may be able to learn from earthquakes of ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 14, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Bursting a bubble? Accepted theory explaining frequent eruptions at Italy's volcano called into question

Understanding the processes that cause volcanic eruptions can help scientists predict how often and how violently a volcano will erupt. Although scientists have a general idea of how these processes work — ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jul 21, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast


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