Earth Science

Ytterbium

Just What Is Ytterbium Anyway?

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Vote for NASA’s Greatest Achievement in Earth Observation

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Picture of the Week—Lightning in a Volcanic Plume

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Karijini National Park in HD

Joshua Tewksbury and colleagues study whether the hot stuff in chili fruit deters bugs that may carry fungus.

What's So Hot About Chili Peppers?

An American ecologist travels through the Bolivian forest to answer burning questions about the spice

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Review: Dust, the Movie

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Underwater Volcano Erupts Near Tonga

A team from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration caught the first ever video recording of an underwater volcano erupting.

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Environmental Film Festival Review: RiverWebs

Monday evening I saw another film from the Environmental Film Festival, a screening of RiverWebs at the Japan Information and Culture Center

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Too Many Choices at the Environmental Film Festival

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These Magnets Can Hurt

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Picture of the Week—Lake Disappointment

The colors in this picture remind me of Vincent van Gogh, but it’s not a painting

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Picture of the Week—the Atmospheric Phenomenon Sprite

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Drought + Spark = Australia Burning

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A Melting Antarctica Could Bring an Underwater Smithsonian

Some unknown day in the future, ongoing climate change virtually assures the West Antarctic Ice Sheet will melt away

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Volcano Obsession -- UPDATED 03-23-09

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A Link Between Dams and Earthquakes?

The earth is big, and so are the tectonic plates—it doesn’t seem possible that anything humans could do to the earth would have an effect on those plates

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Don’t Drink the Water

The AP reported earlier this week that the Indian pharmaceutical industry is spewing a drug soup into the waters of a town near Hyderabad

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Picture of the Week—Snowy Peaks

The recent cold spell is getting a lot of attention, but we should all remember that it could be worse

Dr. Eric Lander, Director of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, speaks at the Mouse Genome Sequencing Press Conference on December 4, 2002.

A Welcome to the Obama Administration’s Scientist Appointees

Last month, then president-elect Obama devoted one of his weekly addresses to science

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An Antarctic Scientist's Advice for Surviving the Cold

Sure, it’s zero degrees outside. But you can handle it

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