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Earth in the Classroom : ALIEN INVASIONS
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Earth in the
Classroom
Welcome to Issue #1
As a long-time admirer of The Universe in the Classroom, a publication of the
Astronomical Society of the Pacific, I feel especially privileged to welcome you to this first issue of The Earth in the Classroom.
We hope to contribute to the Earth sciences in the same way that The Universe [...]
How do bacteria survive these low temperatures?
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The bacteria whether pathogenic or not, must adapt their growth to environmental changes, such as variations in temperature Researchers at CNRS (Lab Architecture reactivity and RNA), of the University of Camerino (Italy) and Dusseldorf ( Germany) have discovered that it is the structure of RNA that adapts to temperature and can thus translate the proteins [...]
The first spectrum of an exoplanet obtained directly through the VLT
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By studying a triple planetary system that looks like a larger family of planets of our own Sun astronomers were able to obtain the first spectrum of direct - “Chemical fingerprint “(1) - a planet in orbit around a star distant (2), thus providing new information on the formation and composition of this planet. This [...]
The migratory behavior of eels explained by genetics
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A team of researchers from the Institute of Oceanic Research of the University of Tokyo offers an explanation for being done by the great migrations of freshwater eels at the time of replication. It would be a behavior inherited from an ancestor who lived in the marine environment.
The name “eel” in French refers to several [...]
A major earthquake in Haiti
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Yesterday Tuesday, a violent earthquake, a magnitude of 7, struck Haiti. The damage is considerable, especially in Port-au-Prince, the capital. The number of victims is unknown at this time. He was 16 h 53 local time this Tuesday, January 12, 2010 (21 h 53 in time universal,
And yet they lived in the forest
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Researchers come to reconstruct the environment from one of our distant relatives of the genus Ardipithecus: it would have lived in a forest when he was already walking. A discovery that may overturn theories about the emergence of bipedalism
Major volcanic eruption is preparing Does Indonesia
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The assumption seems plausible. Already in 1835, Charles Darwin had speculated on the possibility of volcanic eruptions triggered by earthquakes. Today, the volcanologist David Pyle, University of Oxford (UK) and colleagues Sebastian Watt Tamsin Mather and reviewed
Earth seen from space: Hawaii Pacific hotspot
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All the main islands of this archipelago is formed by volcanic mountain peaks, which are formed there are several million years when the rock basaltic melt has escaped from a fault in the seafloor. Located above a hot spot of magma at the heart of the Pacific Plate, the islands of Hawaii ((Hawaii in English, [...]
Earth seen from space: the land of lakes and volcanoes
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The Gulf of Fonseca on the Pacific coast (in the form of leg, left on the picture below article) is a natural port shared between Nicaragua, El Salvador and Honduras. Cosiguina Peninsula, bordering the Gulf South, was formed by sand, ash and lava from the volcano Cosiguina, located at its tip.
Emeishan traps to do well among the killers of the Permian
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90% of species marine, mainly corals, brachiopods, and echinoderms, and 70% of plant and animal land seem to disappear suddenly ago 251.4 million years. This is the famous Great Dying, the mass extinction between the Permian Triassic.
