News tagged with volcanic gases
Copper + love chemical = big sulfur stink
When Hiroaki Matsunami, Ph.D., at Duke set out to study a chemical in male mouse urine called MTMT that attracts female mice, he didn't think he would stumble into a new field of study.
Feb 06, 2012 |
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Avalanche of reactions at the origin of life
The origin of life is seen as the formation of the first biomolecules which may be subject to multiplication and further development. Hitherto it was unclear, which reactions could have triggered the evolution of this ur-metabolism. ...
Jan 19, 2012 |
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Exploring water in the deep Earth
(PhysOrg.com) -- Research published today in Nature Geoscience provides new insight into the water cycle of the deep Earth, volcanic activity in the Pacific and the potential catastrophic effects when these ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 21, 2011 |
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Were martian rocks weathered by water?
There are many ways rocks can be textured. Wind erosion, water erosion, the escape of volcanic gases during their formation (in the case of igneous rocks)… all these forces can create the pitted textures ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 05, 2011 |
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NASA to launch newest Earth-observation satellite
(AP) -- NASA is set to launch its latest Earth-orbiting satellite on a $424 million mission to analyze airborne grit spewed by volcanoes, forest fires, smokestacks and tailpipes.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 21, 2011 |
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Researchers find smoking gun of world's biggest extinction
About 250 million years about 95 per cent of life was wiped out in the sea and 70 per cent on land. Researchers at the University of Calgary believe they have discovered evidence to support massive volcanic ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 23, 2011 |
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Man, volcanoes and the sun have influenced Europe's climate over recent centuries
An International research team has discovered that seasonal temperatures in Europe, above all in winter, have been affected over the past 500 years by natural factors such as volcanic eruptions and solar activity, ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 19, 2011 |
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Volcanoes have shifted Asian rainfall
Scientists have long known that large volcanic explosions can affect the weather by spewing particles that block solar energy and cool the air. Some suspect that extended "volcanic winters" from gigantic blowups ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 03, 2010 |
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Ocean cooling contributed to mid-20th century global warming hiatus
The hiatus of global warming in the Northern Hemisphere during the mid-20th century may have been due to an abrupt cooling event centered over the North Atlantic around 1970, rather than the cooling effects ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 22, 2010 |
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The hot atmosphere of Venus might cool its interior: study
The heat in the atmosphere of Venus, induced from a strong greenhouse warming, might actually have a cooling effect on the planet's interior. This counter-intuitive theory is based on calculations from a new ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 21, 2010 |
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Earth's atmosphere came from outer space, find scientists
(PhysOrg.com) -- The gases which formed the Earth's atmosphere - and probably its oceans - did not come from inside the Earth but from outer space, according to a study by University of Manchester and University ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 10, 2009 |
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What goes down, must come up: Geoscientists offer new model for degassing of Earth's mantle
A new analysis of the processes that constantly stir the Earth's deep mantle is helping to explain how the mantle holds onto a portion of ancient noble gases that were trapped during the Earth's formation.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 27, 2009 |
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