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Experts announce the discovery of 140 trillion times more water than our entire planet holds, in an enormous cloud surrounding a quasi-stellar radio source (quasar). Astronomers say that this is the largest and oldest water cloud ever discovered in the Universe.
According to early estimates, the cloud is about 12 ... |
23 July 2011
02:12 GMT |
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Though many experts argue that carbon-based lifeforms are the most like to continue evolving, others believe that there are chemicals beside carbon that can underly life. Silicon is a good example for it, but other chemicals may be capable of this as well. Famed physicist Stephen Hawking is one of the experts who arg... |
18 July 2011
07:47 GMT |
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An international collaboration of astronomers using the Chile-based APEX telescope managed to find a concentration of hydrogen peroxide in space. The chemical was never seen in interstellar space before.With the new data, chemists and astrobiologists could deepen their understanding about how the two most important m... |
7 July 2011
04:52 GMT |
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Peering under a thin layer of iron oxide, or rust, could reveal important carbonate deposits on the surface of Mars, a new study indicates. Finding the mineral could confirm theories that the Red Planet once had liquid water flowing on its surface. Geologists know this from studying water-logged formations here on Ea... |
4 July 2011
04:47 GMT |
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The question of where water stops and where air begins is a very old, and difficult-to-answer one. Experts have been trying to do so for years, and now it would appear that they finally have an answer. The layer separating the two is as thin as the distance between two atoms in a hydrogen molecules. At the topmost la... |
13 June 2011
08:09 GMT |
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Princess Beatrice, the daughter of Sarah Ferguson Duchess of York, has always had issues with her weight but they seem a matter of the past now. Beatrice made an appearance over the weekend, looking slimmer than ever. Back in 2008, the Daily Mail says, Bea was photographed on the beach in vacation, in a two-piece swi... |
23 May 2011
16:01 GMT |
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According to new calculations made by astronomers, it would appear that the layer of dry ice previously found at the south Martian pole is about 30 times thicker than initially calculated. Dry ice is a solid form of carbon dioxide. The chemical turns into a solid at minus 78.5 degrees Celsius (−109.3 °Fahre... |
22 April 2011
03:16 GMT |
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People living in the deep desert have difficult times getting water to drink, and experts want to fix this issue by turning to nature for inspiration. They are developing a device that is inspired by a special type of beetle living in an African desert. The insect, a member of the Stenocara gracilipes species, is cal... |
21 April 2011
10:45 GMT |
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For millennia, people have used water to extinguish fire in most circumstances. Now, after thousands of years, experts are getting ready to move to the next fire-fighting technology, which uses electricity. Generally, we are told not to use water on power outlets, as this may cause unwanted interactions between the c... |
28 March 2011
05:25 GMT |
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An analysis of the most feasible, possible ways of traveling through space has revealed that using spacecraft powered primarily by water to explore Mars and other locations in the solar system might open up new possibilities in space exploration.Flights to the Red Planet, Venus, the Saturnine moons Enceladus and Tita... |
25 March 2011
08:41 GMT |
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The fact that we are heading towards a water crisis is no longer a secret to anyone. Given the rate at which the world's population is growing, we may soon find ourselves searching for the precious chemical all over the place. The World Water Day again brought these issues to the spotlight.Celebrated every March... |
24 March 2011
04:20 GMT |
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Certain types of bacteria were found to be able to produce biofilms that are significantly more efficient at repelling water than Teflon is. This is the same material used to make non-sticky pans. According to a new study, it would appear that these biofilms, belonging to only a few species of microorganisms, are the... |
31 January 2011
10:56 GMT |
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Experts announce that one of the most likely reasons for which the Moon contains such large amounts of water and ice is that comets slammed into its surface billions of years ago. This allowed the chemical to accumulate, and get stored at the most suitable locations on the lunar surface. According to the new data, ... |
10 January 2011
02:56 GMT |
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Investigators figured out a few years ago that certain locations on our planet tend to mimic conditions that most likely existed on Mars millions to billions of years ago. Studies conducted at these spots are currently being put together to create a timeline of how things evolved on the Red Planet. One of the main re... |
10 December 2010
04:06 GMT |
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Though it may seem a bit of an exaggeration at first, science has yet to make sense of what the most basic water molecules can do. Granted, they know their physical and chemical properties, but when it comes to how water behaves in large amounts, our understanding is still fairly limited. Some physics and chemistry s... |
29 November 2010
09:46 GMT |
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Over the past few years, evidence has been mounting that the Red Planet once featured flowing water on its surface, as well as a large ocean in its northern hemisphere. Now, a new study shows that reservoirs of liquid water may exist right beneath the surface.The international science group that conducted the investi... |
29 November 2010
04:55 GMT |
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According to a new study, common Escherichia coli infections that cause gastroenteritis can have negative, long-term health effects, that lead to people developing kidney problems, chronic high blood pressure and even heart diseases. People can develop gastroenteritis after drinking water that is contaminated with th... |
19 November 2010
10:29 GMT |
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Researchers in the United States are proposing a new approach to sanitizing the areas in which more than 2.6 billion people live in unimaginable conditions. The team says that a total revamp of the value chain behind the sanitation chain is needed, and provides solutions in this matter. The people who are now living ... |
19 November 2010
07:09 GMT |
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Most people only think of comets as enders of worlds, but some scientists are making a strong case that the space objects are more likely cosmic arks of life, taking life-precursor molecules through space in all directions. Some of these objects may have done this for our planet as well, say investigators. In additio... |
4 November 2010
07:06 GMT |
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Earth's natural satellite is apparently still capable of holding secrets from us even after decades if intensive studies, and a few visits. Researchers say that they have just discovered a new type of rock of the Moon, that can be found on its far-side. The discovery was made as a lunar orbiter surveyed the othe... |
4 November 2010
04:04 GMT |
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According to new data collected by Spirit, it would appear that water flowed on Mars more recently than thought, perhaps even in the last hundred millennia or so. The battered rover, which was this year designated as a stationary science station on the Red Planet, found evidence of underground water at the locations ... |
29 October 2010
02:20 GMT |
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The six-astronaut crew aboard the International Space Station now has an additional piece of hardware for producing water aboard the orbital facility, which was activated only recently. With the new instrument, concerns about water availability have decreased aboard the space lab, where astronauts are heavily depende... |
26 October 2010
10:54 GMT |
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In a groundbreaking new discovery, a team of investigators managed to develop a new technique for producing graphene-based transistors and nanoelectronics, which relies on the use of simple water for tuning the material's band gap.Developing methods of doing this is of paramount importance for the electronics in... |
26 October 2010
10:26 GMT |
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In some areas of the world, differences that occur in the amount of precipitations that fall each season can contribute to modifying the local gravity field. The way the water is stored on the landmass can also have the same effect, scientists say.The planet's water cycle is known to move the chemical around a l... |
22 October 2010
03:46 GMT |
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In the latest issue of the esteemed journal Science, six new studies show that the Moon actually contains an abundance of water, especially at ground zero, where the LCROSS spacecraft slammed into the lunar surface last year. That was the first instance in which a space agency carried out such a mission. A spent rock... |
22 October 2010
02:40 GMT |
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A new research carried out by researchers from the Universidad de Castilla la Mancha (UCLM), concluded that sports persons should drink more water so that they can perform at their full capacity.According to this research, 91% of professional basketball, volleyball, handball and football players are dehydrated when t... |
19 October 2010
11:08 GMT |
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According to a new investigation, it would appear that the long-held theory stating that tectonic plates carry water from the surface deep underground. The new work shows that water penetrates only about 400 kilometers in the mantle. Our planet is made up of three large layers – the core, the mantle and the cru... |
19 October 2010
09:54 GMT |
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For the first time ever, a group of scientists has demonstrated experimentally that it is possible to produce a white hole inside a simple kitchen sink. The idea has been hypothesized a long time ago.At this point, there are numerous difficult-to-tackle issues in physics, one of which is the problem of hydraulic jump... |
12 October 2010
08:51 GMT |
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A lot of ink has been spilled over the liquid ocean that is believed to exist below the icy crust of Saturn's moon Enceladus, and yet few observed the fact that the discussion shouldn't have existed at all. We now take for granted that the geysers at the moon's South Pole emit water particles and organ... |
7 October 2010
04:31 GMT |
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A NASA and NSF-funded research, carried out by a team from the University of California Santa Cruz and the Carnegie Institution of Washington, has announced the discovery of an exoplanet, three times the mass of Earth, that orbits a nearby star and is placed in the middle of the star's “habitable zone&rdqu... |
30 September 2010
08:29 GMT |
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According to astronomers, it would appear that the large quantities of water that have been discovered on the Moon are nothing but bad news for experts and space agencies that were hoping to construct large telescopes on the surface of Earth's natural satellite. The water amounts may be a boon for planned manned... |
21 September 2010
03:02 GMT |
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According to official statistics, numerous fish die each year in streams in the United States before they even have a chance to deposit their eggs. The cause for this mass dying is none other than storm water. Naturally, we're not talking here about the “common” variety, the one that falls from the s... |
20 September 2010
08:52 GMT |
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A recent study carried out by researchers at the University of Quebec in Montreal, the University of Montreal and the Polytechnic School of Montreal, shows that children that are exposed to high concentrations of manganese in drinking water had results on IQ tests worse than children with lower exposures.The team of ... |
20 September 2010
08:49 GMT |
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In the new investigation, scientists determined that lakes and reservoirs which exhibit musty or earthy odors, as well as evidence of bacterial infestation, tend to have water with a very poor quality.The research was conducted by investigators at the United States Geological Survey (USGS), who say that glue-green al... |
14 September 2010
05:03 GMT |
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A recent investigation by American researchers has shed some new light onto the planet's water supplies. Though they may seem considerable at first, in this case looks can be extremely deceiving. Investigators from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) showed in the report that our planet features a volume ... |
10 September 2010
03:59 GMT |
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Scientists at the American space agency say that they managed to derive new data from the information sent back by the Phoenix Mars Lander mission. They say that water and tectonic activities may have existed on the Red Planet more recently than originally thought.The investigators say that the lander managed to iden... |
10 September 2010
01:47 GMT |
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While following up on some previous discoveries, a team of astronomers determined that water molecules in space can be produced simply in the presence of ultraviolet light.The group was investigating findings made some time ago, when a massive cloud of water vapors, heated at high temperatures, was discovered around ... |
2 September 2010
08:43 GMT |
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Scientists have discovered boiling hot water vapor in the atmosphere of an aging star, some 500 light-years away from Earth.This discovery contradicts what was generally believed until now - that the chemistry of aging stars would forbid the existence of water vapors within the atmosphere.In the outer atmosphere of t... |
2 September 2010
04:49 GMT |
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Last year, scientists from Bonn and Mexico started to uncover and map the walls of a very ancient Mayan city, called Uxul, and in the process they discovered huge water reservoirs.These big pools are called 'aguadas' and they are “about 100m square”, said Iken Paap, who directs the project with ... |
26 August 2010
08:50 GMT |
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Experts are currently trying to get approval for the construction of a new series of Earth-sensing satellites, that would be capable of observing how the ocean changes color depending on season and other factors.At this point, this is accomplished via three NASA satellites capable to tracking down plant life taking p... |
23 August 2010
10:05 GMT |
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In a new set of scientific studies, it was revealed that scientists don't know as much as they thought they did about how frozen cones drip, and icicles form. For many years, it was believed that samples featuring a precise quantity of water, freezing under the same conditions, would create icicles that feature ... |
16 August 2010
03:57 GMT |
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The NASA spacecraft Cassini has completed its latest distant flyby of Enceladus, one of Saturn's most interesting moons, and has just finished sending back the first raw and uncalibrated images.Although the fully-validated and calibrated photos will only be made available through the NASA Planetary Data System i... |
16 August 2010
03:08 GMT |
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Our understanding of the Moon has advanced considerably in the last year. A number of independent missions have discovered that water-ice exists at the lunar poles, and that water molecules are also trapped in regular regolith rocks on its surface. But a new investigation shows that the interior of the Moon is comple... |
6 August 2010
05:21 GMT |
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A team of investigators recently conducted a new study into a key class of enzymes that they say is absolutely critical for all types of cells during energy conversion. Through the work was conducted on bacteria, the researchers say that the findings also hold relevance for the way human cells convert energy as well,... |
4 August 2010
16:01 GMT |
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The six astronauts that are currently making up the Expedition 24 crew to the International Space Station (ISS) have in their care a number of scientific experiments that could have vast influences on the future of mankind. One of them is DECLIC-HTI, and its makers say that it could hold the key towards enabling spec... |
27 July 2010
11:07 GMT |
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It's no longer a secret to anyone that one of the primary effects of global warming is drought. In addition to increased temperatures and less water, the phenomenon also causes a shift in precipitation patterns. This causes additional distress to various ecosystems and regions, but can also have devastating effe... |
21 July 2010
04:17 GMT |
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It appears that water is starting to gain more and more uses on the IT market, even despite its rather fatal effect on any sort of electric circuitry. Now too long ago, IBM announced that its Zurich supercomputer was, strangely enough, cooled by means of hot water. Now, water has somehow become the means by which a 3... |
5 July 2010
10:40 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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Over the years, astronomers have identified a number of celestial bodies in our solar system that may be suitable candidates for holding some forms of life. Jupiter's moon Europe is the clearest example, with the Saturnine moons Titan and Enceladus threading close by. But a new contestant is currently making its... |
11 June 2010
02:48 GMT |
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In a groundbreaking new study, scientists at the University of Bristol, in the UK, managed to create the first ever, highly-concentrated liquid that does not contain water at all. The accomplishment was made possible only through the use of one of the blood's most important proteins, called myoglobin. This chemi... |
7 June 2010
10:19 GMT |
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