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Researchers give new hybrid vehicle its first test drive in the ocean
Taking a page out of a science fiction story, researchers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and Webb Research Corporation (Falmouth, Mass.) have successfully flown the first environmentally powered robotic vehicle through the ocean. The new robotic "glider" harvests heat energy from the ocean to propel itself across... view more... (2008-02-11)

Earth and Moon through Rosetta's eyes
ESA's comet chaser mission Rosetta took these infrared and visible images of Earth and the Moon, during the Earth fly-by of 4/5 March 2005 while on its way to Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. These images, now processed, are part of the first scientific data obtained by Rosetta. "The Earth fly-by represented the first real chance to... view more... (2005-05-03)

Geophysical Research Letters - Highlights for 1 February 2001
American Geophysical Union Geophysical Research Letters European Highlights of This Issue - 1 February 2001 ********** Contents I. Highlights II. Authors and their institutions III. Notes, including ordering information for science writers ********** ********** I. Highlights 3. Numerical model of Lake Vostok Williams ["Application of a... view more... (2001-01-18)

New method for detecting explosives
A group of researchers in Tennessee and Denmark has discovered a way to sensitively detect explosives based on the physical properties of their vapors. Their technology, which is currently being developed into prototype devices for field testing, is described in the latest issue of the journal Review of Scientific Instruments, which is published... view more... (2009-03-16)

DOE outlines research needed to improve solar energy technologies
To help achieve the Bush Administration's goal of increased use of solar and other renewable forms of energy, the Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Science has released a report describing the basic research needed to produce "revolutionary progress in bringing solar energy to its full potential in the energy marketplace."   view more (2005-08-15)

Study details structural changes of a key catalytic enzyme
Enzymes are complex proteins capable of catalyzing specific biochemical reactions in cells.   view more (2006-09-21)

Measurements link magma melting rate to tectonic plate subduction rate
Determining the origin and rate of magma production in subduction zone volcanoes is essential to understanding the formation of continental crust and the recycling of subducted materials back into Earth's mantle.   view more (2007-11-09)

NASA ice images aid study of Pacific walrus arctic habitats
The Arctic ice pack is home to thousands of Pacific walrus. Their preferred habitat is an ice floe that has enough density and surface area to support a herd of 12-foot-long, 3,000 pound mammals.   view more (2006-12-13)

Atmosphere threatened by pollutants entering ocean, prof says
A large quantity of nitrogen compounds emitted into the atmosphere by humans through the burning of fossil fuels and the use of nitrogen fertilizers enters the oceans and may lead to the removal of some carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.   view more (2008-05-16)

Europe at the forefront in research on solar, wave and geothermal energies
Today at the "Solar platform" test site in Almeria (Spain) the European Commission presented the state of play on its research programmes in alternative energy sources, including solar thermal, wave and geothermal energy. World energy consumption will double over the next 50 years, with Europe currently depending heavily on foreign... view more... (2004-03-17)

'Radio wave cooling' offers new twist on laser cooling
Visible and ultraviolet laser light has been used for years to cool trapped atoms-and more recently larger objects-by reducing the extent of their thermal motion.   view more (2007-09-17)

A study proposes a new universal rule to explain the equilibrium of plant populations
A study financed by the BBVA Foundation and conducted by scientists Carlos Duarte, Nuria Agustì and Nuria Marbà from the Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies (CSIC - University of the Balearic Islands) has allowed the first-time formulation of a universal rule that explains the equilibrium of plant communities, showing how... view more... (2007-09-19)

Pendulums, predators and prey: The ecology of coupled oscillations
Connect one pendulum to another with a spring, and in time the motions of the two swinging levers will become coordinated.   view more (2006-12-04)

The continents as a heat blanket
Drifting of the large tectonic plates and the superimposed continents is not only powered by the heat-driven convection processes in the Earth's mantle, but rather retroacts on this internal driving processes.   view more (2009-01-23)

Sandia conducts tests at Solar Tower to benefit future NASA space explorations
For the last two years, tests have been conducted at Sandia National Laboratories' National Solar Thermal Test Facility to see how materials used for NASA's future planetary exploration missions can withstand severe radiant heating.   view more (2005-09-08)

Ocean temperatures and sea level increases 50 percent higher than previously estimated
New research suggests that ocean temperature and associated sea level increases between 1961 and 2003 were 50 percent larger than estimated in the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report.    view more (2008-06-19)

Manipulating Cell Receptor Alters Animal Behavior
Researchers at the University at Buffalo and the University of Pennsylvania were the first to demonstrate that two intracellular events, both stimulated by the same cell receptor, can provoke different behaviors in mammals.   view more (2006-03-22)

New thermal microscope chosen as Millennium Product
A new type of microscope that can look beneath the surface of an opaque material has been granted Millennium Product status. The news was announced by Trade and Industry Secretary Peter Mandelson at the CBI Conference in Birmingham today, Monday 2 November. The microscope is a product of collaborative research at Loughborough and Lancaster... view more... (1998-11-04)

Research breakthrough will lead to more accurate weather forecasts
More accurate global weather forecasts and a better understanding of climate change are in prospect thanks to a breakthrough by engineers at Queen's University Belfast's Institute of Electronics, Communications and Information Technology (ECIT).   view more (2009-08-07)

A warming climate can support glacial ice
New research challenges the generally accepted belief that substantial ice sheets could not have existed on Earth during past super-warm climate events.   view more (2008-01-11)
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