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Scientists Reference of First Global Earthquake Hazard Map
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It took more than 500 scientists and seven years of research, but the first global earthquake hazard map is now complete. How come it took seven whole years? Well, for starters, the scientists had to contend with forces much greater than earthquakes. Try politics.
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Tips For Antarctic Expeditors & Researchers: Coping Cold
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According to Victoria Auld, physicist and electronic engineer with the British Antarctic Survey, there’s a lot more to the challenge of coping with cold weather than just the cold. Auld has spent the past two Austral winters at Halley’s base in Antarctica, braving temperatures lower than 50 degrees below.
How do you [...]
Earth seen from space: the massive Atlas
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The massif is divided into five channels that separate the Mediterranean climate zones in the north of the arid zone of the Sahara Desert to the south. Three of these channels are located in Morocco: High Atlas (covered with snow and visible in the lower left corner), the Middle Atlas (which appears as two spots [...]
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
