WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The mystery behind the extinction of a huge flightless bird called Genyornis that flourished in the grasslands and woodlands of prehistoric Australia may have been solved, with …read more Source:: UKScienceNews
Month: January 2016
Proton rocket blasts off with part of European space ‘data highway’
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•FRANKFURT (Reuters) – A Russian Proton rocket blasted off in Kazakhstan on Friday night to put into orbit both the first part of Europe’s new space “data highway” and a …read more Source:: UKScienceNews
Geophysicist questions stability of Antarctic ice sheet
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•There is a growing debate over the fate of the world’s largest ice sheet, whose sudden melting is sending shockwaves throughout the geophysics community. Researchers contend that by studying other …read more Source:: Science
Ancient rocks of Tetons formed by continental collisions
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•Plate tectonics were operating in what is now western Wyoming long before the collisions that created the Himalayas starting 40 million years ago. The researchers reached their conclusions by analyzing …read more Source:: Science
Icy ebb and flow influenced by hydrothermal activity
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•Hydrothermal activity along the mid-ocean ridge system suggests that the release of molten rock, or magma, in response to changes in sea level plays a significant role in the earth’s …read more Source:: Science
Finger tracing can lift student performance in math
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•Schoolkids who used finger tracing fared better with previously unseen geometry and algebra questions, new research has found. Studies involving 275 Sydney school children aged between nine and 13 found …read more Source:: Science
Laboratory-bred corals reproduce in the wild
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•Researchers have, for the first time, successfully raised laboratory-bred colonies of a threatened Caribbean coral species to sexual maturity. Due to its large size and branching shape, elkhorn corals created …read more Source:: Science
Moon was produced by a head-on collision between Earth and a forming planet
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•The moon was formed from a violent, head-on collision between the early Earth and a ‘planetary embryo’ called Theia approximately 100 million years after the Earth formed, almost 4.5 billion …read more Source:: Science
Recent summer temperatures in Europe are likely the warmest of the last 2 millennia
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•Most of Europe has experienced strong summer warming over the course of the past several decades, accompanied by severe heat waves in 2003, 2010 and 2015. New research now puts …read more Source:: Science
Europe to launch first part of space-based data highway
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•FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Europe plans to launch on Friday night the first part of a new space data highway that will pave the way for faster than ever monitoring of …read more Source:: UKScienceNews