The geological record holds clues that throughout Earth's 4.5-billion-year lifetime massive supervolcanoes, far larger than Mount St. Helens or Mount Pinatubo, have erupted. However, despite the claims of those who fear 2012, ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 15, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- When jewelers inspect diamonds, they look for cut, clarity, color, and carat. When University of Tennessee, Knoxville, geologists Larry Taylor and Yang Liu inspect diamonds, they look for minerals, inclusions ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 8, 2011
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Paleontologist Guillermo Rougier, Ph.D., professor of anatomical sciences and neurobiology at the University of Louisville, and his team have reported their discovery of two skulls from the first known mammal of the early ...
Archaeology
Nov 2, 2011
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Managing light to carry computer data, such as text, audio and video, is possible today with laser light beams that are guided along a fibre-optic cable. These waves consist of countless billions of photons, which carry information ...
Optics & Photonics
Nov 2, 2011
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Geologist John Goodge looks for clues about Antarctica's past in the 2 percent of the continent that is not covered in ice!
Earth Sciences
Nov 1, 2011
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Scientists present the largest distribution data compilation ever on butterflies of an entire continent. The Germany based Society for the Conservation of Butterflies and Moths GfS ("Gesellschaft für Schmetterlingsschutz"), ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 5, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- For much of Earth's history, the continents have shifted around, sometimes joining with others, sometimes tearing apart to form new continents. One such shift resulted in what Earth scientists call the Pangaea, ...
(AP) -- U.S. space officials say they expect a dead satellite to fall to Earth in about a week.
Space Exploration
Sep 16, 2011
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Regional cooperation to improve the fight against creeping desertification of the African continent is at the centre of a conference that is to open here Thursday.
Environment
Sep 6, 2011
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Scientists from the UK and Switzerland have investigated the remarkable distance that microorganisms may be able to blow between continents, raising questions about their potential to colonise new lands and also potentially ...
Cell & Microbiology
Aug 17, 2011
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