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Grand Canyon as old as the dinosaurs

January 16, 2013
News
One of the Seven Wonders of the World is older and with a more interesting history than was previously assumed. Mineral grains from the bottom of the western Grand Canyon...
Earth & Environmental
Earth & Environmental Sciences, Geology
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NASA happens upon forecast breakthrough

January 9, 2013
News
A researcher who set out to develop a formula to protect Apollo sites on the moon from rocket exhaust has happened upon a way to improve weather forecasting on Earth.John...
Earth & Environmental
Atmospheric Sciences, Earth & Environmental Sciences
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Colin Murrell: fighting climate change with microbiology

January 5, 2013
Insight
Professor Colin Murrell is the first Director of the Earth and Life Sciences Alliance (ELSA), an initiative that aims to understand how earth and life systems respond to climate change. ...
Earth & Environmental, Physics & Engineering
Energy, Environment, Interviews
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Nearby ‘super-Earth’ may support life

December 17, 2012
News
An international team of astronomers have discovered an alien planet, believed to have a similar climate to Earth, which might be able to support life. The planet is located a...
Earth & Environmental, Physics & Engineering
Astronomy, Atmospheric Sciences, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Physics
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Oceanic turbulence affects marine food web

December 10, 2012
News
Numerical simulations have shown for the first time that the movement of seawater can directly affect the ability of marine bacteria to absorb organic material, such as that produced by...
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Atmospheric Sciences, Biological Sciences, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Marine Biology, Microbiology, Oceanography
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See-through soil developed

November 16, 2012
News
Researchers from the James Hutton Institute and the University of Abertay Dundee have developed a transparent soil which will enable them to study roots in detail. The research is detailed...
Earth & Environmental
Earth & Environmental Sciences, Soil Science
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Weighing the ocean

October 1, 2012
News
Scientists from the National Oceanography Centre and Newcastle University have proposed a method that will estimate the mass of the world ocean by weighing it at a single point.Global sea...
Earth & Environmental
Earth & Environmental Sciences, Oceanography
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Sediment collapse explains scale of tsunami

September 13, 2012
News
Cambridge University seismologists have developed a model that may explain why some tsunamis are larger than predicted – such as the Japanese March 2011 tsunami that baffled earthquake experts. The...
Earth & Environmental
Earth & Environmental Sciences, Oceanography, Tectonics
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Green Antarctica

September 10, 2012
News
Antarctica was once home to a warm rainforest dominated by palms and trees, and a mountain forest with beech and conifer trees.An international team of researchers have been studying this...
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Atmospheric Sciences, Biological Sciences, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Paleobiology
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Healthier chocolate

August 16, 2012
News
Chocolate could get healthier as scientists replace half of its fat content with fruit juice.The fruit juice infused chocolate bar has been developed by chemists from the University of Warwick...
Earth & Environmental
Food & Beverage
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