Tag: Earth
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Photo of the Day
Periodic wobbles in Earth’s core change the length of a day every 5.9 years, according to a study published today (July 10) in the journal Nature. Teasing out this subtle cycle, which subtracts and adds mere milliseconds to each day, also revealed a match between abrupt changes in the length of day and Earth’s magnetic field.…
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Earth Festival in Vlasti, Kozani Opens Today
Neoskosmos.com announces this year’s Greek music Earth Festival that “combines the green mentality with music and other events.” The festival opens today, July 11 in the mountain community of Vlasti: This alternative ethnic festival will be held for the 13th year in succession, from 11 to 14 July, in the village of Vlasti, Kozani, by…
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Study of Bacteria in Space Yields Strange Results
Miriam Kramer reports on a study conducted in space that could be useful for long term space-flight missions and may even have implications for bacterial research right here on earth. A team of scientists sent samples of the bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa into orbit aboard NASA’s space shuttle Atlantis to see how they grew in comparison…
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Radical New Model of Earth’s Core
Simon Redfern tackles new ideas about the earth’s core puzzle in BBC News: Seismic data indicate that the western and eastern hemispheres of Earth’s inner core differ, and this has led some to suggest that the core was once subjected t an impulse – presumably from the collision of a space rock or planetoid which…
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Life Teems in one of the most isolated places on earth
In Popsci, Francie Diep reports on a new study of Lake Vostok – Antartica’s largest sealed lake: For this study, the Ohio biologists examined ice gathered from just underneath Lake Vostok’s glacier, at the lake’s southern edges. Scientists think such ice, called accretion ice, represents water from the surface of the lake that froze to…
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Eco-friendly generation Y boosts demand for chemical free products
Jackie Sinnerton of the Courier Mail reports on a new trend among young people to go organic: Brisbane teenager Anna-Lisa Persson, 18, has recently moved out of home and always shops for beauty products that are kind to the skin as well as the environment. ‘It’s a bit of a trend for young people to…
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Elysium – Reaganomics on Steroids
n the year 2159, two classes of people exist: the very wealthy, who live on a pristine man-made space station called Elysium, and the rest, who live on an overpopulated, ruined Earth. Secretary Delacourt (Jodie Foster) will stop at nothing to preserve the luxurious lifestyle of the citizens of Elysium — but that doesn’t stop…
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Microbes to be ‘last survivors’ on future Earth
From an article by Rebecca Morelle, Science reporter, BBC World Service: The last surviving creatures on Earth will be tiny organisms living deep underground, according to scientists. Researchers used a computer model to assess our planet’s fate billions of years from now. They found that as the Sun becomes hotter and brighter, only microbes would…
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How the earth heals itself after an earthquake
Becky Oskin writes a fascinating piece, at Mother Nature Network, about how the earth heals itself after an earthquake: For the first time, scientists have watched the Earth heal itself after an earthquake. The process is similar to the body repairing a cut, researchers from China and the United States reported on June 27 in the journal…
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Photo of the Day
A composite of several Cassini images shows Titan’s varied surface, including possibly a remnant of an old impact basin (large circular feature near the center of Titan’s disk). Mountain ranges to the southeast of the circular feature, and the dark linear feature to the northwest of the circular impact scar may be evidence of past…
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