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Waves – a hidden factor influencing Arctic ice retreat?

January 7, 2015
News
The first detailed research on the impact of waves on Arctic sea ice will allow scientists to determine the areas more vulnerable to climate change.Research published in the Proceedings of...
Earth & Environmental
Earth & Environmental Sciences, Geophysics, Oceanography
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A fault with the origin of life

December 10, 2014
News
New research has shown that deep-reaching interconnected fault systems provide the right conditions for the origin of life.The fluid mixture in the system, consisting of water, carbon dioxide and other...
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Cell Biology, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Geology
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A corker of an infrared spectroscopy study…

December 5, 2014
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Researchers have employed infrared spectroscopy techniques to determine how a cork might perform in a wine bottle. A team from the Universidad Politéchnica de Madrid, INIA-CIFOR and the Universidad de...
Earth & Environmental
Food & Beverage
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Gee-whiz science yields high res climate models

November 21, 2014
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A climate scientist has used the powerful supercomputers at Berkeley Laboratory to carry out ‘gee-whiz science’, producing high resolution models predicting extreme storms caused by climate change. These models, developed...
Earth & Environmental
Atmospheric Sciences, Earth & Environmental Sciences
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Safer fracking thanks to new early warning system

November 6, 2014
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New technology developed at the University of Nottingham could be used as an early warning system to make fracking safer. The surveying software – PUNNET GEO – can provide a...
Earth & Environmental
Earth & Environmental Sciences, Geology
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Weather forecasting set to improve

October 29, 2014
News
A new £97m supercomputer could put an end to the complaints about weather forecasting accuracy. The computer – to be housed at the Met Office headquarters in Exeter and the...
Earth & Environmental, Physics & Engineering
Atmospheric Sciences, Computer Science, Earth & Environmental Sciences
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Dry roasting a trigger for peanut allergy

October 1, 2014
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There is a striking difference between the prevalence of peanut allergies in the Western world and the East and it could be down to the way the nuts are prepared.Dry...
Earth & Environmental
Food & Beverage
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Extremophile key to nuclear waste disposal

September 19, 2014
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A subterranean bacterium could solve the problem of how to dispose of nuclear waste say researchers at the University of Manchester. This is the first time a microbe capable of...
Chemistry, Earth & Environmental
Earth & Environmental Sciences, Environmental Chemistry
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New threat to ozone layer

September 17, 2014
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The Antarctic ozone hole is beginning to show signs of recovery, but a new threat is lurking suggests a report from the United Nations: “new” CFCs discovered in the atmosphere....
Earth & Environmental
Atmospheric Sciences, Earth & Environmental Sciences
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Winter weather set to get more erratic

September 12, 2014
News
Extreme variations in pressure over the North Atlantic are responsible for our increasingly erratic winter weather. Conditions in the UK range from mild, wet and stormy, to incredibly cold and...
Earth & Environmental
Atmospheric Sciences, Earth & Environmental Sciences
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