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Methane gas escapes from ocean floor fossil deposits at a rate of about two hundred or more cubic meters every day, which poses some environmental concerns, as the methane gas is a greenhouse gas, which causes a global warming effect 23 times more accentuated than carbon dioxide would, during a century. About half of... |
21 December 2007
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Jupiter's natural satellite Europa, is the only cosmic body in the solar system that might have an ocean of liquid water under its frozen surface, except for Earth. This represents a great opportunity for astrobiologists who believe that in the ocean life might be present, as diverse as in the oceans on Earth. H... |
14 December 2007
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Global warming has been in the scientists' attention for some time now. It was first discovered at the end of the 19th century, from studies that showed that the average temperature of the soil was rising. The greenhouse effect that is thought to trigger global warming takes its name from the Greenhouse, as a to... |
3 November 2007
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If we pay huge prices for perfumes coming from the anal glands of the musk deer and civet cat and coffee coming from the dung of civet cat, why should we be surprised by the fact that one the most expensive perfumes is actually vomit?Ambergris comes from the intestines of the sperm whales. It is actually a biliary se... |
6 October 2007
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It has been found that the frozen ocean of the North (for how long could it be still named so?) has its origins in ... a lake. 20 million years ago, what is now the Arctic Ocean was just a very large lake, whose fresh water flew southwards through a narrow strait into the Atlantic.But 18.2 million years ago, the tect... |
22 June 2007
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The kapok tree is going to solve a mystery that has puzzled the biologists for a long time: the similarity between African and South American rainforests.The two continents split 130 millions years ago; still, their forests are too similar, and it seems that 96 million years ago, they were still exchanging flora.A te... |
18 June 2007
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Mars is a frigid desert and has a thin atmosphere and surface features reminiscent both of the impact craters of the Moon and the volcanoes, valleys, deserts and polar ice caps of Earth. This week, a team of scientists discovered the most compelling evidence of liquid water on Mars. What happened to the lost oceans ... |
14 June 2007
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Are you getting tired of the same old view when you look out the windows of your apartment, or you just feel the need for a change in your life? No problem!Soon, with the push of a button you will be able to rotate your entire floor so that your apartment will get on another side of the building. This could be very ... |
23 May 2007
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Scientists put great hopes on the Ocean to ease the effects of dumping too much global warming producing carbon dioxide (CO2), by absorbing and storing it at great depths. These carbon sinks are crucial coping with the excess of CO2 from the atmosphere, as they slow down the greenhouse effect.This effect had been pre... |
18 May 2007
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The waters of the Southern Ocean are cold, remote and difficult to study, posing many questions, still unanswered. A team led by Alberto Naveira Garabato of the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton has solved one issue: the researchers studied the ocean circulation in the current that flows around Antarctica by ... |
11 May 2007
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Helio has recently introduced their latest handset, the Ocean, a 3G media and content powerhorse that delivers an interesting and convenient form factor as well as an impressive set of features. According to Helio, the Ocean was designed to become the ultimate social networking tool and can easily be used for instant... |
26 March 2007
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