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and recently helped uncover an enormous underground water aquifer in Kenya's driest region. To get the most from all this technology on offer, Terefa Waluwa,
It cost $20bn to build in 2008 (they reportedly imported sand from Spain for its private beaches)
lectures by business experts, networking#not to mention a great view over the city's beach. The pattern is repeated all the way down Rothschild,
along with Ben-Shahar, presented some of his findings at April's Association for Chemoreception Sciences meeting in Huntington beach,
keeping energy-hungry smartphones or tablets going all day at the beach, music festivals or picnics in the park is easier than ever.
while it tucked away in bags, on the way between beaches and parks. Making sure the charger premium look won be compromised with scratches or stains.
enabling EV drivers to easily recharge at locations throughout the United states. Headquartered inmiami Beach, FL with offices in San jose, CA;
and where they will strike on the coastline. DEWS processes this data and provides authorities with all the relevant information needed for making a decision on the type of public warning messages that are required.
and improve integrated resource management with special attention on coastal and marine ecosystems. The environment will not be the only beneficiary of INCAM.
The supply of fresh water to locations experiencing shortages will help take the pressure off aquifers and reservoirs,
be driven onto a beach or rocky coast, or slam into an oil rig, lighthouse or other structure.
slow-moving rock slides and ground subsidence owing to overexploitation of aquifers in Italy and Spain;
and evolution of the species studied. t is the profoundly diverse nature of insects that has presented insurmountable problems for scientists reconstructing relationships says Gavin Svenson curator and head of invertebrate zoology
#Rice genome could answer the 9 billion-people question Researchers have sequenced the complete genome of African rice a hardy crop that could help feed the world s growing population. ice feeds
and chair of the school of plant sciences with a joint appointment in the department of ecology and evolutionary biology. ice will play a key role in helping to solve what we call the 9 billion-people question. he 9 billion people question refers to predictions that the world
#Car paint with graphene gets ice off radar domes Rice university rightoriginal Studyposted by Mike Williams-Rice on December 18 2013ribbons of ultrathin graphene combined with polyurethane paint meant for cars can keep ice off of sensitive military
Bulky radar domes (known as adomes like those seen on military ships keep ice and freezing rain from forming directly on antennas.
But the domes themselves must also be kept clear of ice that could damage them or make them unstable.
when they re coated with ice because they re very poor conductors. nter graphene the single-atom-thick sheet of carbon that both conducts electricity and because it s so thin allows radio frequencies to pass unhindered.
and would not produce enough heat to melt ice or keep it from forming but graphene nanoribbons (GNRS) unzipped from multiwalled carbon nanotubes in a chemical process invented by the Tour group in 2009 do the job nicely he says.
Lipson says he hopes this simple demonstration is just the ip of the iceberg. 3d printing technology could be moving from printing passive parts toward printing active integrated systems he adds.
Imagine you and your mother are pictured together building a sandcastle at the beach. You re both tagged in the photo quite close together.
The dwarf planet Ceres contains ice buried beneath an outer crust and researchers have drawn a parallel between the two bodies.
Like Ceres the water was most likely in the form of ice below the planet s surface.
and 15n contained in the shells of tiny marine animal plankton called foraminifera. The ratio of 15n to 14n was used then to reconstruct the rate of nitrogen fixation.
#Ice may explain odd craters on Mars Brown University right Original Studyposted by Kevin Stacey-Brown on August 6 2013brown (US) More than 600 double-layer craters on Mars may have been caused by debris
while it was covered by sheets of glacial ice tens of meters thick. Double-layered ejecta craters or DLES like other craters are surrounded by debris excavated by an impactor.
During these times ice from the polar caps is redistributed into the mid-latitudes of Mars as a layer about 50 meters thick in the same place that we see that the DLES have formed.
This made us think that this ice layer could be part of the explanation for the formation of the unusual DLE second layer.
In the scenario Head and graduate student David Kutai Weiss describe in the journal Geophysical Research Letters the impact blasts through the ice layer spitting rock and other ejecta out onto the surrounding ice.
But because that ejected material sits on slippery ice it doesn t all stay put. The researchers believe the layering occurs
when material near the top of an upraised crater rim slides down the slippery ice and overtops material on the lower slopes.
and a slick ice layer creates the DLES telltale two-layered appearance. I think for the first time
and Head thinking that ice could be a key ingredient for making a DLE. Ice would reduce the coefficient of friction on the slopes of crater rims increasing the likelihood of a slide.
When I did a quick calculation I realized that the landslide wouldn be expected to happen (on crater rims)
unless the ejecta was landsliding on an ice layer Weiss says. The scenario also requires a steep slope on the outside of a crater rim.
The ice model also accounts for other distinctive features of DLES. For example unlike other crater types DLES tend not to have secondary craters surrounding them.
But if that surrounding surface were covered by ice evidence of shallow secondary craters would disappear
when the ice disappeared. The model also appears to explain the locations of DLES at middle
or high latitudes areas where scientists believe there may once have been glacial ice on Mars. Ultimately understanding how DLES
The border between the lowlands and the highlands would have been the coastline for the hypothetical ocean.
Researchers used new high-resolution images from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) to study a 100-square-kilometer area that sits right on this possible former coastline.
#Plankton fossils found in 3 billion-year-old rocks Researchers say they ve discovered microfossils of plankton in 3 billion-year-old rocks.
The spindle-shaped microfossils are from 20 to 60 microns in length about the size of fine sand and within the size range of today s microplankton.
In development since 2005,#the robot can climb a 35 degree incline, walk on ice, and maintain balance even
The facility is a series of small buildings in the shadow of the looming Orot Rabin power station on Israel s northern coastline.
like chirping birds or a passing ice-cream truck. Sound preferences can be adjusted via a circular scroll panel on the face of the device.
Plastic trash is also polluting our oceans and washing up on beaches around the world. Tons of plastic from the US and Japan are#floating in the Pacific ocean
but unappreciated role in marine ecosystems can be managed properly conserved and exploited. The research was detailed in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Editor's note:
and viruses but this is the first time anyone has built a chromosome from a eukaryote an organism
Marine biologists and engineers have developed now a massive Exosuit weighing 530 lbs. 240 kilograms) designed for ocean depths down to 1000 feet (305 meters) another extreme environment where no one can hear you scream.
Many of these migrating fish plankton and other animals have bioluminescent or biofluorescent properties but scientist have studied only them with remote instruments
That's what makes the Exosuit a giant leap forward for marine biologists who have never before been able to study these little-known organisms in their natural habitat.
and flashing patterns of bioluminescent organisms or to effectively collect fishes and invertebrates from deep reefs John Sparks a curator in the American Museum of Natural history's Department of Ichthyology said in a statement.
that had been thought to come almost exclusively from marine plankton such as shelled algae. Biologists knew that bony fish a group that includes most fish apart from cartilaginous ones such as sharks
The carbonate coming from plankton doesn't dissolve until it sinks to depths greater than 1000 metres.
Ocean scientists have warned that plankton and corals will produce less calcium carbonate as the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere rises,
Depending on temperature, these complexes can grow into large water droplets or frozen balls of ice, leading to cloud formation and rain or snow.
and lay there in the ice, he says.""And those weren t even carefully prepared samples.
who announced the finding on 10 january at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Long beach, California1.
Polynyas are regions of open water near sea ice that are kept from freezing by wind and currents that sweep newly formed ice away.
the researchers used satellite sensors to hunt for polynya regions where ice formed particularly rapidly.
"The seals went to an area of the coastline that no ship was ever going to get to,
"Given the large volume of subsea-floor crust, one can t help but wonder how the amount of living biomass there compares to that at the Earth s surface,
Previously, CITES delegates have hesitated to interfere with trade in commercially valuable marine species, say many campaigners. Conservationists see the move into timber as equally significant,
those of us who think of ourselves as reality-based have snickered at the conspiracy theorists who argue that contrailshose wispy streams of ice
In December astronomers announced hints of watery plumes spurting from Jupiter's large moon Europa potentially giving us a peek into a vast ocean likely to exist beneath its ice.
Europa meanwhile appears to be covered entirely by an ocean sandwiched between a rocky core and a thin ice crust.
Galileo also hints that Europa's ice crust has active plate tectonics which would let nutrients from the surface make their way into the liquid ocean.
and drill through the ice since we don't know for sure if the plumes are fed by it.
and explaining the salty ice grains we see coming out of the surface. The team also found that the southern hemisphere has a stronger gravitational pull than its topography would suggest.
That could be explained by a localised sea sitting beneath 35 kilometres of ice and up to 8 kilometres deep.
although the idea of this thing blowing all of its ice away and becoming a little rocky moon is kind of nice Lunine says.
what was once an ice moon. Journal reference: Science DOI: 10.1126/science. 125055 5
#Mini robot space surgeon to climb inside astronauts It could one day answer the prayers of astronauts who need surgery in deep space.
A physical simulation of a comet's impact with a planet shows that the conditions are extreme enough to create amino acids within the comet's ice.
Theoretical studies had suggested that the shock of an impact could rearrange the components of the ice into something more interesting.
and colleagues made model comet ice in the lab containing various amounts of ammonia carbon dioxide and methanol.
Then they shot the ice with a steel pellet travelling at about 7 kilometres a second to simulate the comet smacking into a planet
The goop that remained after the ice was evaporated away was analysed by Price's colleague Zita Martins at Imperial College London who found it contained the amino acids alanine and norvaline.
When this article was published first on 15 september it did not give details of the researcher who detected amino acids in the ice.
and European trees from the same era while Antarctic ice cores from 775 also have increases in beryllium-10 another isotope caused by cosmic rays.
and in the Antarctic ice are the first evidence for a burst much closer to home.
Recalling the week you just spent at the beach probably makes you feel happy while reflecting on being bullied provokes more negative feelings.
The new work could have implications for the study of marine ecosystems and for our understanding of how infections take hold in medical devices.
The new findings could also be important for studies of microbial marine ecosystems by affecting how bacteria move in search of nutrients
This phenomenon could easily apply to a wide range of plankton and sperm cells as well. Howard A. Stone a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Princeton university who was involved not in this research calls this a very interesting paper
For example, in trying to prevent the buildup of ice on an airplane wing, the contact time of raindrops is critical:
The new work by Rice chemist James Tour and his colleagues could keep glass surfaces from windshields to skyscrapers free of ice
and polyurethane paint to melt ice on sensitive military radar domes which need to be kept clear of ice to keep them at peak performance.
The material would replace a bulky and energy-hungry metal oxide framework. The graphene-infused paint worked well Tour said
When voltage was applied to either side of the slide the ice melted within minutes even
and ice but also be transparent to radio frequencies. It's really frustrating these days to find yourself in a building where your cellphone doesn't work.
Halas said the squid skin research team which includes marine biologists Roger Hanlon of the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole Mass
He was relaxing on the beach after surfing in San Clemente, Calif. when he picked up some sand,
#Mega-Canyon Discovered Beneath Greenland Ice Sheet A previously unknown canyon has been discovered in Greenland hidden beneath the ice.
The canyon which is thought to predate glaciation has remained hidden beneath two kilometres of ice for more than four million years.
It has the characteristics of a meandering river channel an ancient river system that Bamber thinks hasn't been modified significantly by ice cover.
Considerable effort has been put into collecting bed topography of the Greenland ice sheet recently and there is a lot of data to be processed and interpreted.
I'm sure there are many secrets left to discover beneath Greenland's ice and likewise in Antarctica.
Radio waves of certain frequencies can travel through ice but bounce off the bedrock beneath. So researchers sent down pulses of radio energy of this particular frequency.
This lubricates the ice sheet and therefore determines the speed at which it moves. We think the canyon is an efficient conduit for ice-melt from the glacier.
If you want to model glacial movement â##something that is ever more crucial due to global warming â##then knowing about such topography is very important.
http://news. nationalgeographic. com/news/2013/07/130723-east-antarctic-ice-sheet-melt-global warming/Do not try
A lot of the scientific value of the past 22 years can be damaged by a single missed year. â#Scientists at Palmer have been meticulously studying the Antarctic marine ecosystem including all of the life in it from microbes to penguins every year since 1990.
Scientists have documented also stronger surface winds cloudier skies more snowfall less ice and warmer ocean water.
because supplies including scientific equipment take a long involved route from a port in Long beach California south to the port in Punta arenas where they re loaded onto the Gould.
#Dramatic Ice Loss Is Messing With Antarctica's Gravity Just when you wondered if climate change news couldn't get much worse along comes proof that it's affected one of the fundamental forces of nature:
The ice sheet covering West Antarctica lost enough mass between 2009 and 2012 to cause a measurable dip in the region's gravity field.
which has been taking high-resolution measurements of Earth's gravity for the past four years with those of the American-German orbiter GRACE which uses gravity data to measure changes in ice mass.
Data from the ESA's Cryosat satellite shows that West Antarctica's seasonal ice melt has sped up by a factor of three
#If water in the early Solar system was inherited primarily as ice from interstellar space then it is likely that similar ices
DIRTT is hoping to forestall these problems with the help of their Doom engine-based software named ICE.
We re going to have cost certainty with ICE Jenkins says. The Doom engine is a computer program that can render 2-D blueprints into a 3-D space.
Because the engine is open-source DIRTT was able to adapt it for their own needs--for example ICE melts with other design softwares including Autocad.
An engineer or an architect can use ICE to mock up a room and create a live data set for every aspect of a space including the electrical engineering millwork and piping.
Because of ICE we don't have separate teams of manufacturers trying to coordinate with ordered engineering says Jenkins.
and other virtual reality viewing systems may integrate with the ICE software--to further simplify the design process
and take the beaches. The contract with French shipbuilders specified two Mistral class ships built in France,
The targeted fronts off southwest UK provide ideal conditions for abundant plankton growth which in turn can attract large numbers of fish seabirds dolphins and basking sharks.
and the weather conditions at the ocean surface they can detect the density of plankton in the water listen for clicks
Built to operate in all marine environments C-Enduro uses solar panels a wind generator a lightweight diesel generator
in order to cope with the demanding marine environment and to record different type of data. The Robotic Exploration of Ocean Frontsâ project is divided into two phases.
Phase one sees a fleet of seven marine drones being launched from a beach on the Isles of Scilly to travel up to 300 miles to the shelf edge and back.
#Chinaâ#moon landing and rover tip of iceberg Yutu (Jade Rabbit#)China rover-like robot was landed soft on the moon earlier this month.
One will operate off the Alaska coast to survey ice floats and wildlife; the other will conduct commercial environmental monitoring in the Arctic circle assist emergency response teams in oil spill monitoring
This however was just the tip of the iceberg for the long list of requirements needed to successfully achieve our final goal.
Theories include deliquescence, melting subsurface ice or even a liquid-water aquifer that feeds the process.
which will be created under the coastline of Northern ireland County Antrim, will be funded with the help of a EU grant of 6. 5 Million euros ($7. 1 million).
"I think we have seen just the tip of the iceberg. Digital imaging is expected to enable many emerging fields including wearable devices, sensor networks, smart environments, personalized medicine,
#Antarctica Larsen B Ice shelf Will Disintegrate Before the End of the Decade A newly published NASA study reveals that the last remaining section of Antarctica Larsen B Ice shelf is weakening
California, found the remnant of the Larsen B Ice shelf is flowing faster, becoming increasingly fragmented
Khazendar said. lthough it fascinating scientifically to have a front-row seat to watch the ice shelf becoming unstable and breaking up, it bad news for our planet.
This ice shelf has existed for at least 10,000 years, and soon it will be gone. ce shelves are the gatekeepers for glaciers flowing from Antarctica toward the ocean.
Without them, glacial ice enters the ocean faster and accelerates the pace of global sea level rise. This study, the first to look comprehensively at the health of the Larsen B remnant and the glaciers that flow into it
Khazendar team used data on ice surface elevations and bedrock depths from instrumented aircraft participating in NASA Operation Icebridge,
a multiyear airborne survey campaign that provides unprecedented documentation annually of Antarctica glaciers, ice shelves and ice sheets.
widening rift that has formed near the ice shelf grounding line will eventually crack all the way across. The free-floating remnant will shatter into hundreds of icebergs that will drift away
and the glaciers will rev up for their unhindered move to the sea. Located on the coast of the Antarctic Peninsula, the Larsen B remnant is about 625 square miles (1, 600 square kilometers) in area and about 1, 640 feet (500 meters) thick
which, according to authors of the study, explains its comparative stability. his study of the Antarctic Peninsula glaciers provides insights about how ice shelves farther south,
which hold much more land ice, will react to a warming climate, said JPL glaciologist Eric Rignot, a coauthor of the paper.
he evolving instability of the remnant Larsen B Ice shelf and its tributary glaciers, Earth and Planetary science Letters, Volume 419,1 June 2015, Pages 19910;
and then say that at that spotithin 500 metershere is black ice, says Steve Banfield, chief marketing officer for Inrix. t a much more focused warning than before,
replacing lifeguards at beaches with drones carrying floatation devices that can identify people in distress.
Previously it was known that H20 existed on Mars in the form of ice but scientists had thought the atmosphere of Mars was too thin for liquid water to be possible.
but frozen solid in the polar ice caps. There have been fleeting hints of recent liquid water,
The other possibility is frozen underground aquifers solid during winter, melting during summer and seeping to the surface.
Interesting find Museum of Victoria senior curator of Ichthyology Dr Martin Gomon says it is an interesting find
it is strong enough to withstand the rigorous conditions faced in the marine environment. Significant efforts in recent years have focused on developing lightweight polymer matrix composites to replace heavier metal-based components in automobiles and marine vessels.
and ice shed by the comet that enter the atmosphere at 37 miles per second (60 km/s). As they hit the atmosphere,
Once in the subsurface, the material behaves as a colloidal biomatrix binding to the aquifer matrix,
the same way salt helps melt snow and ice on our roads after a blizzard.
sugar and calories provided by ice-cream are far more likely to contribute to weight gain that trivial amounts of these additives.#
Recently an ice-cream product line contaminated with Listeria was found responsible for several deaths and a nationwide recall in the United states. The bacteria are one of many that can be transmitted by factory workers.
Their current detection sensitivity is more in line with the needs of beaches, swimming pools, and other recreational water facilities.
"is the result of a three-year collaboration between IBM Research and chefs at the Institute of culinary education (ICE).
and improvements in theoretical understanding and computational speed and accuracy, wee just at the tip of the iceberg with
just as water changes from solid ice to liquid or steam with temperature change. Constructed from 1 billion tiny magnets,
A similar process can be observed in water molecules as water freezes into ice. Laura Heyderman
Other possibilities include melting of surface or near-surface ice or discharges of local aquifers."
Could there be an underground Martian aquifer? Researchers note that there is potential for the Curiosity rover to travel to an RSL
In addition, the superhydrophobic property can be effective at preventing ice and snow buildup on optical elements and can impede biofouling in marine applications.
#Smart micelles for marine environments martmaterials that alter their structure in response to specific, controllable stimuli have applications in various fields, from biomedical science to the oil industry.
which means it is potentially useful for dynamic marine environments. The researchers mixed the block copolymers with primer to create a nontoxic coating to replace traditional antifouling paint.
and ice in the planetary system,"explains Professor Metchev. These are much like the dust
and the ice grains produced by collisions among asteroids and comets in the Solar system.""Metchev's team conducted a study with data from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE TO search for any thermal glow that such dust
and ice can produce.""We found that 51 Eridani is surrounded by warm dust that indicates the presence of an asteroid belt,
what we believe is a large iceberg, Surendranath adds, since the basic ingredient is dirt cheap material that we are modifying using well-known chemistry.
what is done in making a coated ice-cream bar. The coating protects the drug from being degraded by the liver and removed by the kidney.
#Solving 80-year-old mystery, chemist discovers way to isolate single-crystal ice surfaces A Tufts University chemist has discovered a way to select specific surfaces of single-crystal ice for study,
publishing the week of October 26 in advance of print("Producing desired ice faces")."Crystal Ice Face The ability to select
and study crystal ice faces, like this one, could help answer important questions, such as how vapor interacts with ice crystals to produce rain,
which pollutants attach themselves to ice crystals, and why no two snowflakes are alike.""Ice crystals are ubiquitous
"I thought I'd grow a piece of ice and be done, but it's a very unusual material
"These limitations hindered scientists'ability to examine the molecular-level structure and dynamics of ice.
That has left gaps in our understanding of the important role that ice plays in the environment,
In 2013, Shultz's lab took a giant step toward removing these limitations by inventing a special apparatus to grow large samples of single-crystal ice.
But selecting a specific face from that ice remained elusive. Shultz credits her most recent breakthrough to simple geometry and trigonometry.
The most common type of ice called Ih or"ice one h,"is made up of water molecules in a hexagonal crystal shape in an orderly,
repeating arrangement called a lattice. Shultz found that by using certain measurements and formulas, she could determine the crystal's lattice orientation as it relates to a surface
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