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Nano-silver health risk?

May 15, 2014
News
Dietary supplements containing nano-silver could be harmful to health say Danish researchers who have shown that the small sized particles can penetrate cells and cause damage. Silver has an antibacterial...
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Cell Biology, Food & Beverage
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Ice core clue to Earth’s evolution

May 13, 2014
News
In an attempt to reveal how the planet has evolved, polar scientists have successfully drilled a 2,000-year-old ice core in the heart of Antarctica. Approximately two tonnes of ice core...
Earth & Environmental
Earth & Environmental Sciences, Geology
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Ancient Mercury’s volcanic past

April 25, 2014
News
Volcanoes exploded on Mercury for a large proportion of the planet’s history according to detailed data from Messenger. The spacecraft’s first fly-bys of Mercury in 2008 pointed to its explosive...
Earth & Environmental, Physics & Engineering
Astronomy, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Physics, Volcanology
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Saharan dust cloud highlights air quality problems

April 4, 2014
News
Air pollution is now the world’s largest single environmental health risk according to the World Health Organization. Figures released before the recent Saharan dust invasion and subsequent haze hanging over...
Earth & Environmental
Atmospheric Sciences, Earth & Environmental Sciences
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Supervolcanic eruptions solved?

February 11, 2014
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Supervolcanic eruptions are caused by a change in magma pressure and magma buoyancy suggests two new research papers. Supervolcanoes have a large magma chamber compared to conventional volcanoes, and are...
Earth & Environmental
Earth & Environmental Sciences, Volcanology
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Soap bubbles predict circling winds

February 5, 2014
News
Meteorologists have been using an unusual tool to predict the wind intensity and strength of hurricanes and typhoons – soap bubbles. Researchers from the Laboratoire Ondes et Matière d’Aquitaine used...
Earth & Environmental
Atmospheric Sciences, Earth & Environmental Sciences
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Nanoparticles and the environment

December 30, 2013
News
Metallic nanoparticles have many possible uses – including clean fuel technology and high density storage – but their potential effects on their environment remain unknown.An international team of researchers have...
Earth & Environmental
Atmospheric Sciences, Earth & Environmental Sciences
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Acid rain plays role in Great Dying

November 29, 2013
News
Rain as acidic as undiluted lemon juice could have contributed to the Great Dying, a severe mass extinction event nearly 252 million years ago.The cause of the massive extinction at...
Earth & Environmental, Life Sciences
Atmospheric Sciences, Biological Sciences, Earth & Environmental Sciences, Paleobiology
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Ardnamurchan magma mystery solved

October 16, 2013
News
A volcano on the Scottish peninsula thought to have three successive magma chambers only has one single chamber say researchers.The 58 million year old Ardnamurchan volcano is an iconic site...
Earth & Environmental
Earth & Environmental Sciences, Volcanology
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Sea-level rise predictions could be flawed

August 7, 2013
News
Bristol researchers say the satellite record for the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets needs to improve if we are to examine ice loss correctly.It is currently too short to tell...
Earth & Environmental
Earth & Environmental Sciences, Oceanography
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