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Earth Sciences RSS FeedsAmerican Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac - (American Chemical Society) The American Chemical Society News Service Weekly Press Package contains reports from 36 major peer-reviewed journals on chemistry, health, medicine, energy, environment, food, nanotechnology and other hot topics....Feed Source: www.eurekalert.org UCSB center helps land $24M national center to study environmental impacts of nanotechnology - (University of California - Santa Barbara) The Center for Nanotechnology in Society at the University of California at Santa Barbara helped to win the new University of California Center for the Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology, a five-year, $24 million center co-funded by the National Science Foundation and the US Environmental Protection Agency to study the environmental impacts of nanotechnology.... Team led by Livermore scientists helps to resolve long-standing puzzle in climate science - (DOE/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) A team led by Livermore scientists has helped reconcile the differences between simulated and observed temperature trends in the tropics. ... PhysTEC addressing physics teacher shortage - (American Physical Society) US schools are struggling with severe shortages of physics teachers. The Physics Teacher Education Coalition is spearheading an effort to meet the demand for qualified science educators by tripling the output of K-12 physics teachers at more than a dozen colleges and universities. ... Iowa State researchers developing wireless soil sensors to improve farming - (Iowa State University) Iowa State University researchers are developing wireless soil sensors that could one day help farmers maximize their production while minimizing environmental impacts. The prototype sensors are designed to collect and send data about soil moisture -- and eventually soil temperature and nutrient content -- while working completely underground. Farmers and their equipment could work right over the top of them. ... 'Himalaya -- Changing Landscapes' photo exhibition draws attention to the impacts of climate change - (Fundación BBVA) 'The Himalaya -- Changing Landscapes' photo exhibition aims to raise awareness of the impact of climate change and of the new challenges facing the mountain people.... Saving Sumatra: Indonesia reaches historic agreement - (World Wildlife Fund) The Indonesian government and World Wildlife Fund today announced a bold commitment to protect the remaining forests and critical ecosystems of Sumatra, an Indonesian island that holds some of the world's most diverse -- and endangered -- forests. The historic agreement represents the first-ever island-wide commitment to protect Sumatra's stunning biodiversity.The commitment has been endorsed by governors of all provinces across Sumatra, the world's sixth-largest island, and was also endorsed by four ministers. ... Robert Hazen to Receive 2009 MSA Distinguished Public Service Medal - (Carnegie Institution) Robert Hazen, senior staff scientist at the Carnegie Institution's Geophysical Laboratory, will receive the 2009 Distinguished Public Service Medal of the Mineralogical Society of America. Hazen researches the possible roles of minerals in the origin of life and is author of more than 300 articles and 19 books on science, history and music.... Experts agree: to protect the environment, biofuel standards are needed - (Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies) Society is in a race to find renewable sources of carbon-neutral energy. Cellulose-based biofuels hold promise, but we need to proceed cautiously and with an eye toward minimizing long-term ecological impacts. Without a sound plan, we could wind up doing more environmental harm than good.... AAAS satellite image analysis reveals South Ossetian damage - (American Association for the Advancement of Science) Satellite images captured before and after the Aug. 7-8 clash between Georgia, South Ossetian separatists and Russia reveal that 424 civilian structures near Tskhinvali were damaged by Aug. 19 -- although they appeared intact in images taken on Aug. 10 and earlier, the American Association for the Advancement of Science has reported.... Hydrogen + corncobs (with a splash of boron) = fuel of the future? - (University of Missouri-Columbia) The next alternative fuel in a vehicle's tank might be nothing more than gas with a little help from corn. However, instead of the usual petroleum-based fuel, this gas will be hydrogen, and the corn will be in the form of corncob-charcoaled briquettes. ... A new journal where molecular biology meets clinical research - (European Molecular Biology Organization) The European Molecular Biology Organization proudly announces the introduction of EMBO Molecular Medicine, a new journal dedicated to a research discipline focused on the interface between molecular biology and clinical research. The new journal, launching in 2009, will publish original research offering molecular insights into cellular and systemic processes underlying defined human diseases as well as potential clinical applications for diagnosis, prevention and therapy.... Europe rallies behind nanotechnology to wean world from fossil fuels - (European Science Foundation) Nanotechnologies can be used to develop sustainable energy systems while reducing the harmful effects of fossil fuels as they are gradually phased out over the next century. This optimistic scenario is coming closer to reality as new technologies such as biomimetics and Dye Sensitized solar Cells emerge with great promise for capturing or storing solar energy, and nanocatalysis develops efficient catalysts for energy-saving industrial processes.... Deep magma matters in volcanic eruption cycle - (Penn State) Although the Soufriere Hills volcano on Montserrat exhibits cycles of eruption and quiet, an international team of researchers found that magma is continuously supplied from deep in the crust but that a valve acts below a shallower magma chamber, releasing lava to the surface periodically.... Smithsonian perspective: Biodiversity in a warmer world - (Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute) Will climate change exceed life's ability to respond? Biodiversity in a Warmer World, published in the Oct. 10, 2008, issue of the journal, Science, illustrates that cross-disciplinary research fostered by the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama clearly informs this urgent debate.... Opening a can of worms: Serendipitous discovery reveals earthworms more diverse than first thought - (Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council) Scientists have found that the UK's common or garden earthworms are far more diverse than previously thought, a discovery with important consequences for agriculture. BBSRC-funded scientists at Cardiff University have found that many of the common earthworm species found in gardens and on agricultural land are actually made up of a number of distinct species that may have different roles in food chains and soil structure and ecology.... Brainy genes, not brawn, key to success on mussel beach - (University of Southern California) Scientists find that mussels in their natural habitat express their genes in cyclic waves, in what appears to be a survival strategy akin to the circadian rhythms that govern sleep. In addition, two sets of genes used to cope with heat stress are identified, in the first real-time molecular sampling of two mussel communities.... Bold traveler's journey toward the center of the Earth - (DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) The first ecosystem with only a single biological species has been discovered and its genome analyzed by a multi-institutional and multidisciplinary team. Living 2.8 km beneath the surface of the earth in the Mponeng gold mine near Johannesburg, South Africa, the rod-shaped bacterium Desulforudis audaxviator exists in complete isolation, total darkness, a lack of oxygen, and 60-degree-Celsius heat. ... Digital zebrafish embryo provides the first complete developmental blueprint of a vertebrate - (European Molecular Biology Laboratory) Researchers at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory have generated a digital zebrafish embryo -- the first complete developmental blueprint of a vertebrate. With a new microscope scientists could for the first time track all cells for the first 24 hours in the life of a zebrafish. The data was reconstructed into a three-dimensional, digital representation of the embryo. The study is published in the current online issue of Science. Movies of the digital embryo will be made publicly available.... Volcanic eruptions more complex and harder to predict, according to new Science paper - (University of East Anglia) New research by a team of US and UK scientists into volcanoes has found that they function in a far more complex way than previously thought, making future eruptions even harder to predict.... Tropical rainforest and mountain species may be threatened by global warming - (University of Connecticut) Contrary to conventional wisdom, tropical plant and animal species living in some of the warmest places on Earth may be threatened by global warming, according to University of Connecticut Ecologist Robert K. Colwell and colleagues in this week's issue of Science magazine.... Evolution of virulence regulation in Staphylococcus aureus - (Cell Press) Scientists have gained insight into the complex mechanisms that control bacterial pathogenesis and, as a result, have developed new theories about how independent mechanisms may have become intertwined during evolution. The research, published by Cell Press in the Oct. 10 issue of the journal Molecular Cell, may lead to strategies for developing more effective therapeutics against the human pathogen responsible for most of the antibiotic-resistant infections contracted in the community.... ASU Mars scientist wins distinguished award from Geological Society of America - (Arizona State University) Philip R. Christensen, Regents' professor of geological sciences in the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University, has been given the G.K. Gilbert Award for 2008 by the Planetary Sciences Division of the Geological Society of America. ... Waterborne disease risk upped in Great Lakes - (University of Wisconsin-Madison) An anticipated increased incidence of climate-related extreme rainfall events in the Great Lakes region may raise the public health risk for the 40 million people who depend on the lakes for their drinking water, according to a new study.... Research center to free chemistry from Earth's bonds - (National Radio Astronomy Observatory) A new research center brings together chemists and astronomers to dramatically improve our understanding of how chemical reactions in the extreme environment of space produce molecules that are the precursors to life.... Copyright © 2008, Typojoe.com. All Rights Reserved. |