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Ocean Circulation Doesn't Work As Expected

(PhysOrg.com) -- The familiar model of Atlantic ocean currents that shows a discrete "conveyor belt" of deep, cold water flowing southward from the Labrador Sea is probably all wet.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 13, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (29) | comments 52

Scientists recreate extreme conditions deep in Earth's interior

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of California, Berkeley, and Yale University scientists have recreated the tremendous pressures and high temperatures deep in the Earth to resolve a long-standing puzzle: why some ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 23, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (15) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Cell membrane is patterned like a patchwork quilt

(Phys.org) -- As the interface between the cell and its environment, the cell membrane, which consists of fats and proteins, fulfils a variety of vital functions. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute of ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 05, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (13) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

The hunt for the lunar core: Deep interior of moon resembles Earth's core

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Moon, Earth's closest neighbor, has long been studied to help us better understand our own planet. Of particular interest is the lunar interior, which could hold clues to its ancient origins. ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 06, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (10) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Helium rains inside Jovian planets

(PhysOrg.com) -- Models of how Saturn and Jupiter formed may soon take on a different look.

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jan 26, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (11) | comments 8

Ocean's journey towards the center of the Earth

A Monash geoscientist and a team of international researchers have discovered the existence of an ocean floor was destroyed 50 to 20 million years ago, proving that New Caledonia and New Zealand are geographically ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 05, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (10) | comments 2

How can we use neutrinos to probe dark matter in the Sun?

The existence of Dark Matter particles in the Sun's interior seems inevitable, despite dark matter never having been observed (there or elsewhere), despite intensive ongoing searches. Once gravitationally ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Sep 09, 2010 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (9) | comments 12

Astronomers detect echoes from the depth of a red giant star

(PhysOrg.com) -- Today an international team of astronomers reports the discovery of waves inside a star that travel so deep that they reach the core. The discovery was published in the renowned journal Science, and wa ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Mar 18, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 23 | with audio podcast

The Ring Nebula

The diversity of colours, shapes, and sizes of planetary nebulae make them fascinating objects. In this photo release Calar Alto presents a rather unique view combining both optical and near-infrared data ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 2

Under pressure: Ramp-compression smashes record

In the first university-based planetary science experiment at the National Ignition Facility (NIF), researchers have gradually compressed a diamond sample to a record pressure of 50 megabars (50 million times ...

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 11, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

GRAIL moon mission in final preparations for September launch

NASA's Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission to study the moon is in final launch preparations for a scheduled Sept. 8 launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Aug 26, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (6) | comments 4

The continents as a heat blanket

Drifting of the large tectonic plates and the superimposed continents is not only powered by the heat-driven convection processes in the Earth's mantle, but rather retroacts on this internal driving processes. In doing so, ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 22, 2009 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (5) | comments 3

The wrong sites for solar

Is it possible that solar energy - clean, renewable, virtually infinite - could have a downside? As it's being pursued on our public lands, yes.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created May 19, 2011 | popularity 2.4 / 5 (7) | comments 12

Car lighting makeover impacts feel of safety and style

Gone are the days of basic, glaring lights inside cars to help us find our seatbelts or scramble for a map. Taking cues from research in buildings and offices, today's car designers have started to incorporate gentle ambient ...

Technology / Engineering

created Aug 16, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Interior design now has a language all its own

In the 1990s, Professor Jan Jennings struggled to talk with her interior design students about design practices that had been used throughout history and across cultures. There were no names, for example, ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Aug 26, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0