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Magma, a company specialized in developing and manufacturing PCI & PCI Express expansion systems for servers, desktops and portable platforms, has recently announced the introduction of an external PCI Express expansion chassis that connects to the computer via a high-speed Thunderbolt interconnect.The stylish alumin... |
8 September 2011
09:24 GMT |
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In a groundbreaking new research, investigators were able to determine the existence of a new, previously-unstudied force that acts on our planet's tectonic plates, leading to their interactions. This newly-found mechanism allows geologists and seismologists to gain a new perspective on the tectonic interplay ta... |
7 July 2011
04:11 GMT |
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The crust covering the Jovian moon Io may also be keeping a vast ocean of magma buried just beneath the surface from spilling out. According to the conclusions of the latest study conducted on this object, it would appear that the underground layer of molten rock spreads all over the moon. This may provide an explana... |
13 May 2011
03:19 GMT |
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For many years, experts have been trying to figure out how is it that the Colorado plateau formed. Though they conducted a large number of studies, the issue still remained cloudy. Now, a theory is proposing an interesting approach to looking at this issue. Landscape features such as the Grand Canyon and Monument Val... |
3 May 2011
08:23 GMT |
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A group of researchers presented the results of a new scientific investigation earlier this month, showing for the first time the existence of magma chambers below the surface of the Hawaii Islands, at extremely shallow depths. The research showed that some of the chambers lie 1.9 to 2.5 miles (3 to 4 kilometers) bel... |
3 January 2011
10:01 GMT |
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Investigators conducting geological research in the Nevada Desert of the United States recently discovered a cooled, solidified blob of magma, that may be a clear indicator that a volcano once existed in the area, millions of years ago.The area features other, similar granite intrusions, and researchers hope that the... |
6 November 2010
05:37 GMT |
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Scientists are not in the habit of advising national authorities to evacuate the general population from areas surrounding active volcanoes at the first sings of trouble. However, at times, they are very quick to do so, based on telltale signs that can be interpreted with ease by experts. Planetary scientists can use... |
26 October 2010
05:25 GMT |
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Experts recently discovered what may very well be a remnant of a primitive Earth mantle. The reservoir was identified in the Canadian Arctic, on the Baffin Island. The team that made the finding was led by geologist Matthew Jackson, who is based at the Boston University. Details of the discovery were published this w... |
12 August 2010
06:09 GMT |
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Investigators from the Oregon State University (OSU) and the University of California in Davis (UCD) have recently determined what causes the historical eruptions of Oregon's tallest mountain, Mount Hood. The new data seems to indicate that a mixing occurring between two different types of magma may be responsib... |
3 August 2010
11:05 GMT |
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The key to being able to predict when a volcano will next erupt is understanding the inner workings of that specific mountain. While general analysis can be applied to all volcanoes of a certain type, truly precise predictions can only be achieved if experts analyze each mountain individually. When it comes to Italy&... |
26 July 2010
06:59 GMT |
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In a series of new investigations, researchers in the United States were able to determine that our natural satellite may in fact contain a lot more water than previously estimated. The experts base their conclusions on new studies of the rock samples that were brought back by the Apollo 11 mission, the first manned ... |
15 June 2010
03:00 GMT |
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Everyone knows how average volcanoes look like, a large mountain with active interior, which funnels magma from the mantle onto the planet's surface, where it turns to lava and devastates everything around. But a special type of such structure is represented by glaciovolcanoes, which are similar to the “re... |
23 April 2010
16:01 GMT |
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For many years, researchers have been proposing that one of the primary reasons for some of the world's most devastating extinction events was the explosion of supervolcanoes. These are massive relatives of their smaller counterparts, and have the ability to release vast amounts of lava, gas and ash around them.... |
10 April 2010
04:37 GMT |
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Two decades of hard work have finally paid off for a collaboration of researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the Rice University, and the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). Geophysicist Chuck DeMets (UWM), alongside colleagues Richard Gordon (Rice) and Donald Argus (JPL), has managed to produce an ... |
23 March 2010
16:01 GMT |
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In the middle of the northern parts of the Atlantic Ocean lies the small island nation of Iceland. It is located at a very peculiar place, right on top of the Atlantic Ridge, which is sort of like a seam going southwards through the mid-Atlantic. What makes this ridge extremely special is that it produces new oceanic... |
23 March 2010
03:04 GMT |
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Experts from a number of universities and research institutes recently revealed to the world the discovery of a submerged erupting volcano, located at a depth lower than that of any other active structure. The work, which was funded by the US National Science Foundation (NSF), and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric... |
18 December 2009
02:52 GMT |
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The US Hawaii Islands are located on top of a very sensitive tectonic and volcanic center, which is part of the Ring of Fire, the hypothesized circle that surrounds the Pacific Ocean. This area features intense volcanic activity, as well as earthquakes, all caused by the subduction processes that take place between t... |
4 December 2009
03:04 GMT |
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Some 251.4 million years ago, the Permian Age came to an abrupt end, when a massive extinction event, known among experts as the “Great Dying”, killed off just about everything on the planet, with just a few exceptions. The event marked the beginning of the Triassic Age, and experts have been puzzling ove... |
6 November 2009
15:41 GMT |
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Geologists recently announced that there might be more things that Mount St. Helens, Mount Rainier and Mount Adams have in common, other than the fact that they are all volcanoes. Preliminary studies seem to indicate that they draw their lava from the same enormous magma pool that spans the entire southwestern portio... |
26 October 2009
09:16 GMT |
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All volcanic eruptions are dangerous and powerful, obviously, but, among them, the Plinian type takes the cake. It includes extremely intense eruptions that regularly take place after many years of volcanic inactivity, and it is, at times (but not always), preceded by short periods of seismic activity. For the first ... |
8 October 2009
16:41 GMT |
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Back in the days when our planet was very young, the continents and oceans did not resemble anything we know and see today. The outer layer of the planet, the crust, was in a constant process of rearrangement, and volcanic eruptions were a common thing. But, from time to time, crust explosions at a grand scale took p... |
21 September 2009
20:51 GMT |
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Online videos are a huge success, with viewer numbers and content growing month after month. Their biggest drawback, in fact, is precisely their success as, with the millions of new videos created and uploaded every month and roughly 15,000 hours’ worth of video added to YouTube every day, it's almost impo... |
26 August 2009
05:30 GMT |
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A new geological theory gives rise to the belief that our planet has two inner cores instead of one, as scientists believed until now. That's not to say that the new theory proved correct. In fact, it's very difficult to say what exactly lies at the center of the Earth, as studying the region is nearly impo... |
7 January 2009
13:01 GMT |
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Another lucky strike for science came in the form of an accidental discovery of magma, following the drill operations conducted in Hawaii by a commercial geologist. Magma has never before been studied in its original form, and the many computer models were built based on the properties inferred from its cooler, gas-f... |
17 December 2008
08:25 GMT |
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We know how the seven continents are arranged today and we are aware (and it's easy to observe) that they were once grouped up in a single, massive continent, called Pangaea. But what's the mysterious force that caused the division of the continents and keeps moving them apart? New studies associate the con... |
16 December 2008
10:52 GMT |
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Canadian researchers have uncovered what may be the oldest chunk of Earth's crust, but the sparks lit by some techniques used in order to date the rocks may cast doubt over the whole finding. For the past four years, Jonathan O'Neill and his colleagues from the McGill University in Canada have been obs... |
26 September 2008
10:26 GMT |
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Most of the platinum metal extracted around the world comes from the Bushveld Complex located in South Africa, a region believed to have been created out of ancient magma some two billion years ago. However, why that particular area is so rich in platinum and other related metals remained a topic open for debate for ... |
12 June 2008
05:30 GMT |
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Volcanoes are the result of the tectonic movements of the Earth's crust, when magma from the entrails of the planet goes out as lava. They became present in the legends and mythology of all people living around them, which venerated and feared them at the same time. There are submarine and terrestrial volcanoes,... |
19 April 2008
07:57 GMT |
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Recently an alternative theory designed to contest the notion that Earth's mantle, the layer between the outer crust and the inner core, might have been solid, suggests that instead it could have consisted of a thick magma 'ocean', slowly flowing beneath the surface.Evidence collected from seismic even... |
6 December 2007
03:47 GMT |
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Scientists say that it takes less time for a planet to form, than for it to completely cool down and compose a solid crust. The study was based on the small meteorites, which occasionally land on the Earth's surface. Physicists from the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston, Texas, UC Davis and NASA, found th... |
23 November 2007
09:40 GMT |
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The experiment was conceived by the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory, to determine how oxide glass structures behave under extreme pressures. A diamond cell was uniquely constructed using a microscopic laser, to house pressures up to 32 gigapascals, equivalent to a tenth of the pressure at... |
12 November 2007
05:42 GMT |
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The world "volcano" comes from the Roman god of fire Vulcan, the equivalent of Hephaistos in the Greek mythology. In the ancient times, people attributed to the volcanoes a supernatural personality, which was worshiped. Old Greeks believed the Earth was a floating disc over the surface of an ocean whose storms trigge... |
3 November 2007
07:07 GMT |
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Surprising new photos were presented by the ESA today, showing one of the most beautiful and unusual features on the surface of Mars. Deuteronilus Mensae is situated North of Arabia Terra, bordering the northern lowlands and the southern highlands.At latitude of 39° North and 23° East, it's glacial formation wi... |
21 May 2007
09:14 GMT |
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Mauna Loa is one of the five volcanoes making up the Hawaii Island, the Earth's largest one, with a volume estimated at about 18,000 cubic miles (75,000 km³).The way the massive volcano is bulging and the swelling could enable the researchers to forecast when the next massive eruption will occur. Better prognose... |
18 May 2007
07:11 GMT |
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Northwestern US is not given to rest: Mount St. Helens seems to enter the same cycle followed by Kilauea in Hawaii with magma being replaced from an reservoir located under the volcano at the same pace as it goes out as lava at the surface. "While the two volcanoes are different in many respects, St. Helens appears t... |
30 March 2007
10:11 GMT |
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During the antiquity, people attributed to the volcanoes a supernatural personality, which was worshiped. Now, researchers just focus on achieving the right methods of preventing the volcanic eruptions and decreasing the damages they inflict.Under the terrestrial crust, the rocks are under molten stage, forming the m... |
8 March 2007
09:45 GMT |
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