A new scientific study has determined that soil-dwelling creatures that inhabited the world some 55 million years ago evolved to be a lot smaller than they had been before, largely due to the increased global temperatures during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM). This is among the first studies to investiga... |
7 October 2009
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The Spirit rover is currently in a “sticky” situation, so to speak, having been trapped inside a very soft area of soil on the Red Planet since May 7th. After several attempts to get the robot to move in any direction, Mars Exploration Rovers (MER) mission controllers decided to temporarily halt all drivi... |
19 May 2009
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Now that the Phoenix Mars Lander is defunct and the mission is officially over beyond all hope, scientists have been able to focus on the data that the device has collected and relayed to us. The main source of interest is represented by the water found in the region of the landing site, but a series of examinations ... |
16 December 2008
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There's not much certainty provided by the facts theorized about the Earth's early years. Actually, the first five hundred millennia hold so little record of activity that the respective time frame is referred to as the Earth's dark ages. This major shortage of solid proof left many questions unanswere... |
9 December 2008
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One week ago, the Robotic Arm of the Phoenix Lander gathered and stored the 6th sample of Martian soil. Originally, the mission coordinators estimated that only 3 would be collected. But, as the mission has surpassed even the boldest of predictions since its May 25 landing on Mars (for 3 months, as it was scheduled)... |
21 October 2008
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Experts have found what appears to be the oldest of the footprints that ever marked the soil of the planet, in the remains of a shallow sea in Nevada. Apparently made 570 million years ago by the first animals that evolved legs, this footprint comes to push the walking advent 30 million years further in time. Re... |
6 October 2008
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Laboratory tests carried out on Earth showed that the Phoenix Mars Lander needs to expose more of the ice bellow the dusty layer on the surface of the planet if researchers want to collect a proper sample for analysis. As a result, the robotic arm of the spacecraft was instructed on Monday to extend an already dug up... |
16 July 2008
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The Thermal and Evolved Gas Analyzer instrument, or TEGA for short, on board the Phoenix Mars Lander, failed to pass its first sample test after the Martian soil delivered by the robotic arm of the lander was unable to reach the instrument. Mission controllers said on Saturday that they would try to determine what we... |
9 June 2008
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Human habits are extremely diverse worldwide. But some really leave you stunned. And while we are searching for remote galaxies and worlds in the sky, some things seem to belong to other worlds. You can imagine the shock of Shamsunnahar Hena, a gynecologist in a Bangladesh hospital, when her pregnant patient said she... |
2 April 2008
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1. Soil is the fragile and loosened material covering most of the ground surface and supporting life. At an overall human population of 6 billion, 2.5 hectares of ground are corresponded to each person. But 70 % of the ground surface is of no use for humans: barren, frozen or snow covered areas, steep mountains, sand... |
24 January 2008
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Chimps are not quite gentle when eating. And besides being messy during the dinner time, they even engulf dirt while doing this. It may seem fulsome, but our closest living relatives are not stupid: eating soil appears to improve their health and their ability to fight infections. This is the result of a new research... |
14 January 2008
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A sample of Martian soil collected and analyzed by NASA's Spirit Rover represents the strongest evidence yet that Mars was once a wet planet. The patch underwent thorough analysis and was found to be rich in silica, a chemical compound that needs water to be produced.MER-A (Mars Exploration Rover - A), a.k.a Sp... |
22 May 2007
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It's called OPRA (Optical Probe for Regolith Analysis) and it will literally dig its way through Martian soil to analyze the layers below the surface in their home. Researchers at the Arkansas Center for Space and Planetary Sciences in partnership with Space Photonics Inc. received a $403,000 grant from NASA, ... |
30 April 2007
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Happiness could be found in the mud ...A mixed research team from the University of Bristol and University College London has discovered that bacteria found in the soil turned on a group of neurons that synthesize the brain chemical serotonin, named also "the happiness hormone". When the researchers treated lab mice ... |
10 April 2007
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