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Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 06:58:47 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Volcanic Eruptions in North America Were More Explosive in Ancient Past
Volcanic Eruptions in North America Were More Explosive in Ancient Past
Wed, 16 Jun 2010 16:17:00 -0500
Millions of years ago, volcanic eruptions in North America were more explosive and may have significantly affected the environment and the global climate. So scientists report in this week's issue of the journal Nature.
The researchers found the remains--deposited in layers of rocks--of eruptions of volcanoes located on North America's northern high plains that spewed massive amounts of sulfate aerosols into the atmosphere 40 million years ago. The scientists conducted their ...
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Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 06:59:41 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Researchers Use Science to Identify Soccer Stars
Researchers Use Science to Identify Soccer Stars
Wed, 16 Jun 2010 16:43:00 -0500
Until now, rating the world's best soccer players was often based on a fan's personal sense of the game. But researchers at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., recently developed a computer program that, for the first time, measures player success based on objective assessments of performance instead of opinion.
Luis Amaral, an associate professor of chemical and biological engineering at Northwestern, says that while basketball and baseball offer a wealth of statistical data to ...
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Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 11:57:59 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Gulf Oil Spill: Mississippi River Hydrology May Help Reduce Oil Onshore
Gulf Oil Spill: Mississippi River Hydrology May Help Reduce Oil Onshore
Thu, 17 Jun 2010 10:14:00 -0500
The Gulf of Mexico: what role will the Mississippi River play in oil washing ashore and into delta wetlands?
One of the spill's greatest environmental threats is to Louisiana's wetlands, scientists believe.
But there may be good news ahead.
Scientists affiliated with the National Center for Earth-surface Dynamics (NCED), a National Science Foundation (NSF) Science and Technology Center headquartered at the University of Minnesota, are using long-term field plots in ...
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Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 14:24:29 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Caribbean Coral Reef Protection Efforts Miss the Mark
Caribbean Coral Reef Protection Efforts Miss the Mark
Thu, 17 Jun 2010 13:00:00 -0500
Conservation efforts aimed at protecting endangered Caribbean corals may be overlooking regions where corals are best equipped to evolve in response to global warming and other climate challenges.
That's the take-home message of a paper published in this week's issue of the journal Science by researchers Ann Budd of the University of Iowa and John Pandolfi of the University of Queensland, Australia.
Budd and Pandolfi focus on understanding the biodiversity of ...
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