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On Saturday, April 17, 2010, the Hyperion instrument onboard NASA's Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) spacecraft obtained this pair of images of the continuing eruption of Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull volcano.

On April 15, 2010, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument on NASA's Terra spacecraft captured these images of the ongoing eruption of Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull Volcano, which continues to spew ash into the atmosphere and impact air travel worldwide. The left-hand, natural-color visible image shows a brownish, ash-laden plume streaming across the North Atlantic toward the United Kingdom.

Satellite data improve aviation safety 16 April 2010 Thousands of planes are grounded across Europe due to the spread of volcanic ash following the recent eruption under Iceland's Eyjafjallajoekull glacier.

For the second time this month, Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull volcano (pronounced "Aya-fyatla-jo-kutl") erupted.

BERKELEY — For the past decade, French-born artist Jean-Paul Bourdier has photographed friends covered in paint against desert landscapes to illustrate the connection between the body and the earth.

A little more than a month later, Zadeh got her chance.

PASADENA, Calif. NASA has successfully completed the first science flight of the Global Hawk unpiloted aircraft system over the Pacific Ocean.

Jackal skulls, mice skeletons, microfossils and volcanic rocks all feature in 'A Crucial Difference', a new exhibition at UCL.

It's space, but is it art? Stunning images of the galaxy are fast becoming common currency thanks to technology like the Hubble Space Telescope, but a unique investigation at the University of Cambridge this week will seek to determine whether something strange is going on behind the scenes.

A NASA research team is using the latest advances in satellite artificial intelligence to speed up estimates of the heat and volume of lava escaping from an erupting volcano in Iceland.

Raymond Alcide Joseph, Haiti's ambassador to the United States, will visit the campus to express his gratitude to UCLA's Operation Haiti team and other medical personnel who volunteered for relief efforts in Haiti in the wake of the Jan.

PASADENA, Calif. NASA, U.S. Navy and university researchers have successfully demonstrated the first robotic underwater vehicle to be powered entirely by natural, renewable, ocean thermal energy. The Sounding Oceanographic Lagrangrian Observer Thermal RECharging (SOLO-TREC) autonomous underwater vehicle uses a novel thermal recharging engine powered by the natural temperature differences found at different ocean depths.

The topography surrounding the Laguna Salada fault in the Mexican state of Baja, California, is clearly shown in this combined radar image and topographic view (above) generated with data from NASA's Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM).

The Anza group at the University of California San Diego operates a broadband seismograph network consisting of 17 three component broadband seismograph stations centered near Anza, California (see map) .

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UCL?s Professor John Butterworth, who led the UK development of one of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) detectors, explains the significance of the record-breaking particle collisions achieved today.

During recent trips to study the damage in Haiti and Chile, Stanford earthquake engineering expert Eduardo Miranda witnessed firsthand the lesson of those disasters: What engineers already know about how to build for earthquakes can save hundreds of thousands of lives.

ANN ARBOR, Mich.—The skull of a juvenile sauropod dinosaur, rediscovered in the collections of Pittsburgh's Carnegie Museum of Natural History, illustrates that some sauropod species went through drastic changes in skull shape during normal growth.

The fifth novel by University of Manchester Professor of Contemporary Literature Patricia Duncker, has been published.

March 29, 2010 — Miami — The University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science announced today that it has selected Jose L. Jimenez, Ph.D.

Students at Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) are using the latest digital technology and crisis mapping tools to aid Chilean earthquake relief efforts with the web-based platform Ushahidi. On Feb. Patrick Meier, Ushahidi's director of crisis mapping and strategic partnerships, was speaking at a conference at Columbia on the role of digital technology in international affairs, sponsored by student-run blog The Morningside Post .

Since Haiti's Jan. 12 earthquake, Columbia doctors and nurses have been on the ground as part of the relief effort and are now helping local organizations rebuild the country's healthcare system.

For individuals interested in helping those affected by the earthquakes in Haiti and Chile, there are a number of organizations accepting donations that will help bring critical aid to affected communities.

Today (Monday, March 22) work crews will begin removing seven trees from the large eucalyptus grove near the west entrance to campus.

The world's policymakers have underestimated the potential dangerous impacts that man-made climate change will have on society, said Charles H. Greene, Cornell professor of earth and atmospheric sciences. As one of the authors of "A Very Inconvenient Truth," published in the peer-reviewed journal Oceanography (March 2010), Greene said that he and his co-authors conclude that the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 2007 4th assessment report underestimates the potential dangerous effects that man-made climate change will have on society.

The exceptionally well preserved dinosaur, named Linheraptor exquisitus, is the first near-complete skeleton of its kind to be found in the Gobi desert since 1972, and will help scientists work out the appearance of other closely related dinosaur species. Linheraptor is in the Dromaeosauridae family of the carnivorous theropod dinosaurs and lived during the Late Cretaceous period.

Scripps researchers are mapping the rupture site of the massive 8.8-magnitude Feb. Chilean earthquake.

National Geographic puts McGill hydrographer on the map Bernhard Lehner's one-of-a-kind global rivers map to be included in April issue of magazine Bernhard Lehner, Dept.

A 'deepening tide of tolerance' means the UK has the necessary preconditions for the emergence of a black prime minister, according to a new book published this week through a major collaboration between Harvard University and The University of Manchester.

Story: Three strong earthquakes rocked Chile this morning, just as the country was swearing in a new president.

Reactions to Fidel Castro's death at age 90 strike a depressingly familiar tone. Some celebrate while others mourn.

BERKELEY — Engineers from the University of California, Berkeley, are traveling to Chile to help coordinate U.S. reconnaissance efforts to document the effects of the massive 8.8 magnitude earthquake that struck the region on Feb.

The team which discovered the site of a second stone circle, 500 years older than the nearby Stonehenge has won a prestigious archaeology award.

Asteroid killed off the dinosaurs, says international scientific panel The Cretaceous?Tertiary mass extinction was caused by an asteroid colliding with Earth Under Strict Embargo 19.

Preserving habitat corridors, thin strips of remnant habitat linking disconnected areas of natural habitat, to create habitat networks is a promising conservation strategy that can sustain biodiversity and ecosystem processes, according to a new McGill University-led study.

Following an intense study of agricultural ecosystems near Montreal, a new tool that enables the simultaneous analysis and management of a wide range of ecological services has been developed by Ciar

Through Lean, companies become good at streamlining their work processes. But be careful not to optimise the creativity process and of starving the organisation.

A University of Manchester physicist will visit some of the most extreme locations on Earth for a spellbinding new TV series, as part of the BBC's 2010 celebration of science.

On behalf of Columbia University, I extend my deepest sympathies to the victims of the earthquake in Chile, and especially to those members of our own community who have been most immediately affected by this tragedy.

The country needs a radical rethink of its approach to managing land and land use, according to a major report co-authored by a UCL professor.

Explorer Antony Jinman sets off on an epic journey to the North Pole today (Wednesday) with the help of a major sponsorship deal from the University of Plymouth. Antony is part of an expedition that will walk 480 miles from Cape Discovery to the North Pole over the next 10 weeks. As well as collecting samples to return to the School of Geography, Earth & Environmental Science, Antony will be posting a daily blog to enable people to track the expedition and ask him questions.

Giant plankton-eating fishes roamed the prehistoric seas for over 100 million years before they were wiped out in the same event that killed off the dinosaurs, new fossil evidence has shown. An international team describe how new fossils from Asia, Europe and the US reveal a previously unknown dynasty of giant plankton-eating bony fishes that filled the seas of the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, between 66-172 million years ago.

Redwoods poorly regulate their water use, and thus are highly sensitive to humidity. Without summer fog, redwoods can lose too much water through their leaves by transpiration and suffer drought stress.

February 15, 2010 — The University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science is listed as one of the top 'heavy hitters' in the recently released 'Essential Science Indicators' list published by Thomson Reuters.

Researchers from UCL have analysed millions of Oyster Card journeys in a bid to understand how, why and where we travel in London.