News tagged with underground
Paydirt at 8-year-old Mars Rover's 'new landing site'
A report in the May 4 edition of the journal Science details discoveries Opportunity made in its first four months at the rim of Endeavour Crater, including key findings reported at a geophysics conference in late 2011.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 04, 2012 |
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Mining for heat
Underground mining is a sweaty job, and not just because of the hard work it takes to haul ore: Mining tunnels fill with heat naturally emitted from the surrounding rock. A group of researchers from McGill University in Canada ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
May 02, 2012 |
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Tracing arsenic threat to groundwater
In the driest inhabited continent on earth, underground water accounts for a large portion of Australia’s most precious resource – freshwater.
Mar 29, 2012 |
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Toxic chemicals at Australian CSG sites
A major Australian coal seam gas miner on Sunday said it had discovered traces of carcinogenic chemicals at a number of its monitoring sites, fuelling debate about the contentious industry.
Aug 29, 2011 |
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Fermilab experiment weighs in on neutrino mystery
Scientists of the MINOS experiment at the Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory announced today (June 24) the results from a search for a rare phenomenon, the transformation of muon ...
Jun 24, 2011 |
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Cave researchers explore stream-filled cavern at entrance to Jerusalem
Hebrew University of Jerusalem researchers have conducted an initial survey of what appears to be an important, ancient water source in a cave that was been discovered during excavation work for a new train ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jun 14, 2011 |
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Underground waters resist forced depollution
An experiment conducted at the EPFL Environmental Biotechnology Laboratory has demonstrated the role played by micro-organisms in the degradation – without oxygen – of a very common pollutant: vinyl ...
May 27, 2011 |
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A water ocean on Titan?
Oddities in the rotation of Saturn's largest moon Titan might add to growing evidence that it harbors an underground ocean, researchers suggest.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 05, 2011 |
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Sandia National Labs suggests we take another look at underground salt deposits for nuclear waste
(PhysOrg.com) -- In light of the Obama administration's decision to effectively end the discussion of using the Yucca mountain site in Nevada as a location for permanent storage of nuclear waste, Sandia National Laboratories, ...
Apr 04, 2011 |
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Satellite data provide a new way to monitor groundwater aquifers in agricultural regions
(PhysOrg.com) -- Stanford researchers have found a way to use satellite data to monitor groundwater aquifers previously obscured by the crops they nourish.
Dec 13, 2010 |
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Eyes, ears of US military take shape in high-tech labs
A Global Hawk robotic plane, hovering more than 11 miles above Afghanistan, can snap images of Taliban hide-outs so crystal clear that U.S. intelligence officials can make out the pickup trucks parked nearby ...
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Nov 18, 2010 |
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Paris building to be warmed by commuters' body heat
(PhysOrg.com) -- Paris Habitat, owner of a low-income public housing project in Paris, is planning to use the excess body heat of commuters in a subway station beneath it to warm an apartment building.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Sep 10, 2010 |
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Noble gas detection system reaches maturity
The Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization certified the first noble gas detection system at its radionuclide station in Charlottesville, Va., United States, on Aug. 19, 2010. The ...
Aug 24, 2010 |
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The world is running out of helium: Nobel prize winner
(PhysOrg.com) -- A renowned expert on helium says we are wasting our supplies of the inert gas helium and will run out within 25 to 30 years, which will have disastrous consequences for hospitals and industry.
Aug 24, 2010 |
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Radar reveals extent of buried ancient Egypt city
An Austrian archaeological team has used radar imaging to determine the extent of the ruins of the one time 3,500-year-old capital of Egypt's foreign occupiers, said the antiquities department Sunday.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jun 21, 2010 |
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