News tagged with isotope values
Identifying Eadgyth
When German archaeologists discovered bones in the tomb of Queen Eadgyth in Magdeburg Cathedral, they looked to Bristol to provide the crucial scientific evidence that the remains were indeed those of the ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Nov 26, 2010 |
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Gamma ray optics: A viable tool for a new branch of scientific discovery
Scientists at the Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL) have demonstrated for the first time that gamma rays, a highly energetic form of light produced by radioactive decay of atomic nuclei and amongst other used to ...
May 09, 2012 |
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Stable isotopes provide “signature” for researchers to study animals
Researchers have many tools available in studying and observing mammals. One is quite small—the stable isotope. Exploring ecological questions through analysis of stable isotopes is a rapidly developing area of research.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 03, 2012 |
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Superconducting submillimeter-wave limb-emission sounder (SMILES)
The Superconducting Submillimeter-Wave Limb-Emission Sounder (SMILES) is the first onboard mechanically cooled superconducting mixer and high-resolution system for measuring atmospheric minor constituents ...
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Apr 09, 2012 |
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Solar 'climate change' could cause rougher space weather
(PhysOrg.com) -- Recent research shows that the space age has coincided with a period of unusually high solar activity, called a grand maximum. Isotopes in ice sheets and tree rings tell us that this grand ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 02, 2012 |
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New finding affects understanding of formation of the solar system
(PhysOrg.com) -- A global collaboration including five University of Notre Dame researchers has revised the half-life of samarium-146 (146Sm), reducing it to 68 million years from 103 million years. The finding ...
Apr 02, 2012 |
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Scientists refine Earth's clock
New research has revealed that some events in Earth's history happened more recently than previously thought.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 29, 2012 |
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CO2 was hidden in the ocean during the Ice Age: study
Why did the atmosphere contain so little carbon dioxide (CO2) during the last Ice Age 20,000 years ago? Why did it rise when the Earth's climate became warmer? Processes in the ocean are responsible for this, says a new study ...
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Mar 29, 2012 |
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Not by asteroid alone: Rethinking the Cretaceous mass extinction
(PhysOrg.com) -- At the end of the Cretaceous period some 65 million years ago, an asteroid slammed into Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, causing severe but selective extinction. While that is widely accepted, ...
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Jan 19, 2012 |
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Choreographing dance of electrons offers promise in pursuit of quantum computers
(PhysOrg.com) -- In the basement of Hoyt Laboratory at Princeton University, Alexei Tyryshkin clicked a computer mouse and sent a burst of microwaves washing across a silicon crystal suspended in a frozen ...
Jan 12, 2012 |
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Carbon cycling was much smaller during last ice age than in today's climate: study
Atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) is one of the most important greenhouse gases and the increase of its abundance in the atmosphere by fossil fuel burning is the main cause of future global warming. In past ...
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Nov 20, 2011 |
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