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Acoustical Signals Give Landslides Away Researchers in the United Kingdom announce the development of a new method of surveying dangerous geological areas for risks of impending landslides. The technique relies of sound interpretation to give early warnings of the looming threat.The electronic ear can listen for the subtle noises that ground layers make as...	4 November 2010 06:25 GMT

Shrimp Found Swimming 600 Feet Below Antarctic Ices In November 2009, the otherwise-gray day of researchers working on surveying the underside of the Antarctic ice sheet was brightened up when they discovered a shrimp-like creature swimming no less than 600 feet underneath the surface of the ice shelf. The animal was going about its business inside a borehole that the...	19 March 2010 07:44 GMT

Graphene Sheet in Oil Wells Could Make All the Difference The economic factor is one of the main things that dictate whether an oil well will be opened or not, economists say. Experts at the Rice University have recently entered a new research effort, aimed at producing a nanometer-thick layer of graphene that would constitute an additive for average drilling bits. The inno...	27 October 2009 10:37 GMT

Evidence Indicates the Amazon River Is 11 Million Years Old In a new survey of the sediment crust located at the mouth of the Amazon, geologists from Brazil's national oil company Petrobras have determined that the age of the transcontinental river is of about 11 million years old. While, at the beginning, the river looked somewhat different from today, its present shape...	8 July 2009 06:10 GMT

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