 The Tunguska Event--100 Years Later July 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 20 vote(s)
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The year is 1908, and it's just after seven in the morning. A man is sitting on the front porch of a trading post at Vanavara in Siberia. Little does he know, in a few moments, he will be hurled from his chair ... | |
 China quake rare and unexpected, new study says June 30, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 15 vote(s)
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A new analysis of the setting for last month's devastating earthquake in China by a team of geoscientists at MIT shows that the quake resulted from faults with little seismic activity, and that similar events ... | |
USGS to help Chile develop volcano early warning system June 25, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
The U.S. Geological Survey is partnering with the Chilean government to develop a volcano early warning and emergency response system for the country after the historic eruption of Chaitén Volcano on May 2. | |
 Greenland ice core analysis shows drastic climate change near end of last ice age June 19, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 46 vote(s)
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Temperatures spiked 22 degrees F in just 50 years, researchers say
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Space radar to improve miners' safety June 19, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Advanced ground penetration radar, originally developed to investigate the soil structure on the Moon and other planets on ESA planetary missions, is now being used in Canadian mines to spot hidden cracks and weaknesses in ... | |
 Active submarine volcanoes found near Fiji June 19, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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Several huge active submarine volcanoes, spreading ridges and rift zones have been discovered northeast of Fiji by a team of Australian and American scientists aboard the Marine National Facility Research ... | |
Researchers explain nitrogen paradox in forests June 18, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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Nitrogen is essential to all life on Earth, and the processes by which it cycles through the environment may determine how ecosystems respond to global warming. But certain aspects of the nitrogen cycle in temperate and tropical ... | |
 Worm-like marine animal providing June 18, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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The marine invertebrate amphioxus offers baseline information for genetic roots of vertebrate innovation such as the adaptive immune system
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California's wildflowers are disappearing, new book by UCR ecologist cautions June 18, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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Richard Minnich says policies and measures are needed to preserve state's flower heritage
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UC Davis researcher leads climate-change discovery June 18, 2008 | User rating: 3.3 / 5 after 20 vote(s)
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A team of researchers led by a first-year UC Davis faculty member has resolved a longstanding paradox in the plant world, which should lead to far more accurate predictions of global climate change. | |
Space science simulation at UNH now better, faster, cheaper June 18, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Cashing in on the underlying technology that seamlessly renders graphics for state-of-the-art video games, space scientists at the University of New Hampshire have bundled together 40 PlayStation3 consoles to affordably simulate ... | |
Toxic to aliens -- but key to health of planet June 18, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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Scientists at the University of Leicester are using an ingredient found in common shampoos to investigate how the oxygen content of the oceans has changed over geologically recent time. | |
Researchers test sediment-scrubbing technology in NH river June 17, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
In a mud flat at the edge of the Cocheco River, just outside downtown Dover, scientists from the University of New Hampshire's Contaminated Sediments Center are testing an innovative way to treat polluted sediment in coastal ... | |
 Pyrite deposits across the state may be tied to an Eocene meteor June 16, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 39 vote(s)
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In 2003, during construction of Interstate 99 in Centre County, Pennsylvania, state road builders hit the mother lode. That's a bad thing. | |
Ebb and flow of the sea drives world's big extinction events June 15, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 51 vote(s)
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If you are curious about Earth's periodic mass extinction events such as the sudden demise of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, you might consider crashing asteroids and sky-darkening super volcanoes as culprits. | |
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