Boeing safely landed its crew capsule in the New Mexico desert Sunday after an aborted flight to the International Space Station that could hold up the company's effort to launch astronauts for NASA next year.
Space Exploration
Dec 22, 2019
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Part of the magic of Uluru is the way it tricks your senses. Deep orange by day, at sunrise and sunset it appears to change color, becoming a more vibrant shade of red, and then almost purple.
Earth Sciences
Dec 29, 2021
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The Netherlands is deploying an unlikely ally as climate change intensifies the low-lying country's age-old fight against floods: more than 666,000 truckloads of sand to shore up a crucial dike.
Environment
Dec 8, 2019
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The Nekton Maldives Mission, involving researchers from the University of Oxford, has found evidence of a previously undescribed ecosystem—"The Trapping Zone"—that is creating an oasis of life 500 meters down in the depths ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 21, 2022
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(Phys.org) —Geologists continue to puzzle over the how and why of crescent-shaped sand dunes called barchans, found on Earth and on Mars. Barchans can form on the seafloor and on ice, as well as deserts. How do they happen? ...
From a mechanical perspective, granular materials are stuck between a rock and a fluid place, with behavior resembling neither a solid nor a liquid. Think of sand through an hourglass: As grains funnel through, they appear ...
General Physics
Nov 17, 2014
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All children who build sandcastles on the beach know that in addition to sand you also need to add a little water to prevent the structure from collapsing. But why is this? In an article which appeared today in Scientific ...
Soft Matter
Aug 2, 2012
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Of all the organisms that photosynthesize, land plants have the most complex bodies. How did this morphology emerge? A team of scientists led by the University of Göttingen has taken a deep dive into the evolutionary history ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 23, 2024
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A team of researchers have proposed a new test that rapidly examines dogs for exposure to a parasite transmitted by sand flies. The test could be used in monitoring the effectiveness of sand fly control efforts.
Plants & Animals
Sep 24, 2018
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A team of researchers at Leiden University has attempted to measure the demand for sand in the coming decades and has also outlined ways to prevent a demand crisis. In their paper published in the journal Nature Sustainability, ...
