News tagged with underground

New Limits on the Origin of Dark Matter

(PhysOrg.com) -- Determining the identity of dark matter, the mysterious stuff thought to make up the vast majority of matter in the universe, is one of the most fundamental challenges facing modern physics. Through theory ...

Physics / General Physics

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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

created May 05, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (23) | comments 57 | with audio podcast

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

created Sep 10, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 3 | with audio podcast report

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.

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Aug 24, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (49) | comments 40 | with audio podcast report

Maya plumbing, first pressurized water feature found in New World

A water feature found in the Maya city of Palenque, Mexico, is the earliest known example of engineered water pressure in the new world, according to a collaboration between two Penn State researchers, an ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created May 04, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (14) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

The First T2K Neutrino Event Observed At Super-Kamiokande

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists from the Japanese-led multinational T2K collaboration announced today that they had made the first detection of a neutrino which had travelled all the way under Japan from their ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 25, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (19) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Researchers go underground to reveal 850 new species

Australian researchers have discovered a huge number of new species of invertebrate animals living in underground water, caves and "micro-caverns" amid the harsh conditions of the Australian outback.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Sep 28, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Jets on Saturn's moon Enceladus not geysers from underground ocean

Water vapor jets that spew from the surface of Saturn's icy moon Enceladus are not really geysers from an underground ocean as initially envisioned by planetary scientists, according to a study led by the ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jun 24, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (12) | comments 8

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

created May 04, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (12) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

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

created May 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

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 ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 24, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 10 | with audio podcast

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, ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 04, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 4 | with audio podcast report

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

created Nov 18, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 1

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

created Jun 21, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (9) | comments 1

The sea level has been rising and falling over the last 2,500 years

"Rising and falling sea levels over relatively short periods do not indicate long-term trends. An assessment of hundreds and thousands of years shows that what seems an irregular phenomenon today is in fact ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 26, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (21) | comments 31 | with audio podcast