-
Project MARGO: A new tool which improves the reliability of climate models (EurekAlert!)
Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:13:12 GMT
( Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona ) An international team of researchers, including Antoni Rosell, ICREA researcher at the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology and professor of the department of geology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, have created MARGO (Multiproxy Approach for the Reconstruction of the Glacial Ocean Surface), a new quantitative tool which reconstructs the sea ...
-
Dinosaurs died out rapidly (The Times of India)
Wed, 21 Jan 2009 08:22:33 GMT
LONDON: An analysis of fossils that were recently found in the Arctic suggests that the dinosaurs might have died out quickly, contrasting the idea that the massive reptiles declined slowly.
-
Owl Native To Arctic Spotted In Tenn. (WSMV Nashville)
Wed, 21 Jan 2009 00:45:25 GMT
The thousands of acres that surround the General Motors plant in Spring Hill have become home to a bird not native to Tennessee.
-
Altered brain activity in schizophrenia may cause exaggerated focus on self (PhysOrg)
Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:31:58 GMT
(PhysOrg.com) -- Schizophrenia may blur the boundary between internal and external realities by over-activating a brain system that is involved in self-reflection, and thus causing an exaggerated focus on self, a new MIT and Harvard brain imaging study has found.
-
Suffer a key change (Philippine Daily Inquirer)
Fri, 16 Jan 2009 21:16:04 GMT
BIRDS do it. Whales do it. And as Cornell University researchers have learned, even the mosquitoes that carry dengue and yellow fever duet too.
-
Arctic, Antarctic research to continue through International Polar Decade (Itar-Tass)
Fri, 16 Jan 2009 20:11:20 GMT
ST. PETERSBURG, January 16 (Itar-Tass) -- The research of Arctic areas and Antarctica initiated by Russia within the framework of the Third International Polar Year of 2007/2008 will continue with projects of the International Polar Decade, head of the Federal Hydro-Meteorological Service Alexander Bedritsky said.
-
Dark (in)side of the moon: Orbiting radar illuminates previously unseen crater interiors (Scientific American)
Fri, 16 Jan 2009 22:40:57 GMT
A NASA instrument aboard the moon-orbiting Indian satellite Chandrayaan-1 has provided the first glimpses inside shadowy lunar craters. The instrument, known as Mini-SAR, used radar soundings to map the floors of polar craters that are continually hidden from view. [More]
-
Mars Methane: Geology or Biology? (SPACE.com via Yahoo! News)
Thu, 15 Jan 2009 19:16:57 GMT
Plumes of methane gas detected over certain locations on Mars in 2003 could point to active geological processes on the red planet, or perhaps even to methane-burping microbes deep below the Martian surface, a new study reports.
-
Ocean Shores concerned about sea level (The World)
Fri, 16 Jan 2009 08:36:14 GMT
Two feet — or there about. That’s how much sea levels could rise in the next 100 years, researchers say.
-
Rediscovered map charts the history of early 20th century Seward Peninsula (Fairbanks Daily News-Miner)
Fri, 16 Jan 2009 09:12:43 GMT
Originally used more as incentive than a reference tool, a rare map from 1899 has been added to the Rasmuson Library’s collection. The map shows gold fields located at Cape Nome, Cape York and Bonanza Mining District. It originally was sold by the Nome Map Co. for 50 cents. In 2009, the region is known as the southern half of the Seward Peninsula and the library purchased the map for $8,500.
<< < 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 > >>