Articles tagged with "Geology"

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One man’s trash

March 7, 2019
Plastics have become a deeply worrying environmental issue, but it is unlikely that demand will drop… so are there alternative production methods which could be more environmentally sound? We chat...

Chachani mountain

January 8, 2019
The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission snapped this image of the Chachani mountain in Peru. Standing at over 6000m, Chachani is the tallest of the mountains near the Peruvian city of Arequipa.

The Colours of Iron

December 11, 2018
'The Colours of Iron' (Lochaber, Scotland) by Ursula Lawrence took the third place) in the Geological society's 2018 Earth Science Week photography competition, 'Earth Science in our Lives.'

Using science to change our world

October 24, 2018
As the Royal Institution sets it sights on expanding the public understanding of science, we hear from its new Director on how he wants everyone to develop a lifelong journey...

First study on influence of microplastics on soil and microbes

September 13, 2018
German scientists have conducted the first investigation into the physical and biological effects of microplastic particles on the soil and its microbes.The research provided the first experimental evidence that microplastics...

Getting the right exposure

September 6, 2018
Understanding the totality of environmental exposures from conception onward and what that might do to our health. That is the ambition of exposomics and it is an incredibly tough undertaking...

High energy lasers get to the core of a problem

July 31, 2018
Scientists have discovered fresh insights into the metallic core at the centre of our planet.The findings could aid understanding of how the Earth was formed from elements in space, some...

The art of the matter

April 13, 2018
Last month we chatted with Dr Iris Salecker of the Visual Circuit Assembly Laboratory to find out what happened when she let an artist loose in her lab… this month...

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