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Solution to ancient rock puzzle posited

A superplume, or massive episode of volcanic eruptions that related to extensive melting of the Earth's mantle, could explain the puzzling reappearance of major iron formations long after the rise in atmospheric ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

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Mars Rover starts its 9th year

Eight years after landing on Mars for what was planned as a three-month mission, NASA's enduring Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is working on what essentially became a new mission five months ago.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 03, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Dawn spacecraft reveals secrets of giant asteroid Vesta

(Phys.org) -- Findings from NASA's Dawn spacecraft reveal new details about the giant asteroid Vesta, including its varied surface composition, sharp temperature changes and clues to its internal structure. ...

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created Apr 26, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Martian volcanic glass could be hotspot for life

Water may have played a role in forming plains of volcanic glass that spread across nearly a third of Mars. The discovery of this volcanic glass could steer scientists toward subglacial lakes where martian ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 26, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

New material shares many of graphene's unusual properties

Graphene, a single-atom-thick layer of carbon, has spawned much research into its unique electronic, optical and mechanical properties. Now, researchers at MIT have found another compound that shares many ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Apr 24, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Great Unconformity: Evidence for a geologic trigger of the Cambrian explosion

(Phys.org) -- The oceans teemed with life 600 million years ago, but the simple, soft-bodied creatures would have been hardly recognizable as the ancestors of nearly all animals on Earth today.

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created Apr 18, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (19) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Impacts could be boon for subterranean life

An incoming asteroid is trouble whether you're a dinosaur or a Bruce Willis fan. But microbes living deep underground may actually welcome the news, according to a recent study of an ancient impact in the ...

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created Apr 16, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Copper chains: Study reveals Earth's deep-seated hold on copper

Earth is clingy when it comes to copper. A new Rice University study this week in the journal Science finds that nature conspires at scales both large and small -- from the realms of tectonic plates down t ...

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created Apr 05, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Nanostarfruits are pure gold for research

(PhysOrg.com) -- They look like fruit, and indeed the nanoscale stars of new research at Rice University have tasty implications for medical imaging and chemical sensing.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 27, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Comet Wild2: First evidence of space weathering

(PhysOrg.com) -- The traditional picture of comets as cold, icy, unchanging bodies throughout their history is being reappraised in the light of analyses of dust grains from Comet Wild2. A team led by the ...

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created Mar 27, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (10) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers devise simple, inexpensive approach to making soft magnetic films for microwave applications

Soft magnetic materials can be easily magnetized and demagnetized. They are widely used in microwave devices, such as absorption of electromagnetic radiations.

Chemistry / Materials Science

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