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A team of geologists of the University of Innsbruck the University of Leeds (UK) discovered the oldest radiometrically dated dripstones currently known from the European Alps.

The National Academy of Sciences today elected three professors at the University of California, San Diego to membership in the National Academy of Sciences, one of the highest honors bestowed on U.S. scientists and engineers.

News release URL Bromirski et al paper in Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans Scripps Homepage ScrippsNews Home Sea level in eastern Pacific may begin to rise due to climate regime shift, say Scri

Scientists have captured and studied the collision of two asteroids for only the second time in the history of astronomy. In the May 20 edition of the Astrophysical Journal Letters (currently online), UCLA's David Jewitt and colleagues report on observations from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope of a large asteroid that was hit by a much smaller one.

In one of his songs Bob Dylan asks "How many years can a mountain exist before it is washed to the sea?", and thus poses an intriguing geological question for which an accurate answer is not easily provided.

PA145/11 Fifty years after the CIA was thrown into the public spotlight by its attempt to remove the Castro regime in Cuba in the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion, some of the world's leading experts

Sharks, tuna, billfish and other oceanic top predators have suffered major population declines in recent decades, causing many researchers to consider them the species at the highest risk of extinction. But now Stanford researchers have found that anchovies, sardines and other small fishes are at an equal or greater risk of suffering a collapse.

Design techniques honed at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., for Mars rovers were used to create the rover currently examining the inside of Japan's nuclear reactors, in areas not yet deemed safe for human crews.

Japanese nuclear crisis adds to the urgency of dealing with radioactive used fuel, and may raise cost of new plants, MIT Energy Initiative study says **A live webcast of today's press conference is currently underway.

Eyjafjallajökull, the Icelandic volcano that grounded air traffic across Europe last year, is the subject of a new research project at the University of Bristol, funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC).

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. Coastal residents and oil-rig workers may soon have longer warning when a storm headed in their direction is becoming a hurricane, thanks to a University of Illinois study demonstrating how to use existing satellites to monitor tropical storm dynamics and predict sudden surges in strength.

ANN ARBOR, Mich.—Melting glaciers and ice caps on Canadian Arctic islands play a much greater role in sea level rise than scientists previously thought, according to a new study led by a University of Michigan researcher.

As part of its commitment to maintaining the highest possible safety standards at all of its facilities, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) adopted an updated site-wide seismic hazard analysis standard in 2007.

ANN ARBOR, Mich.—The ongoing spread of non-native mussels in the Great Lakes has caused "massive, ecosystem-wide changes" throughout lakes Michigan and Huron, two of the planet's largest freshwater lakes, according to a new University of Michigan-led study.

A new study from The Australian National University has for the first time confirmed that long-term climate change has the potential to spin the Earth's tectonic plates. Dr Giampiero Iaffaldano from the ANU Research School of Earth Sciences and colleagues in France and Germany have established a link between the motion of the Indian plate over the past 10 million years and a specific climate change event over the same period: the intensification of the Indian monsoon.

bekam Dr.h.c. Harald Schuh, Vorstand des Instituts für Geodäsie und Geophysik der Technischen Universität Wien, die Vening Meinesz Medaille 2011 der European Geosciences Union (EGU) überreicht.

The Vening Meinesz Medal was awarded to Harald Schuh for his work in the field of Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) and his important contribution to space geodetic research.

By studying fossilized mollusks from some 3.5 million years ago, UCLA geoscientists and colleagues have been able to construct an ancient climate record that holds clues about the long-term ef

The quake in Japan released one million times more energy than the strongest earthquakes known from the Inn valley. Medieval earthquakes have caused remarkable damage in the Inn valley though. A research group at the Institute for Geology and Palaeontology under supervision of Prof. Rainer Brandner investigates geological reasons, in cooperation with the Seismological Survey of Austria.

— Coral Gables — Climate change is already widely recognized to be negatively affecting coral reef ecosystems around the world, yet the long-term effects are difficult to predict.

Aquaculture is a booming industry, but that means effluent from fish farms will be booming, too. What happens to that drifting waste in coastal settings is critical to maintaining a healthy environment, but little has been known about how that waste travels once it is no longer down on the farm.

Science | Schools Cath Harris | 06 Apr 11 Forensic science, fossil dating and volcanic eruptions were among the topics investigated by more than 400 secondary school students at this year's Oxford University Science Roadshow.

A team of researchers from UCL Earth Sciences departed today for the Arctic to test how well sea-ice thickness is measured by the European Space Agency's ice satellite CryoSat-2, which originated at UCL. The project team consists of researchers from UCL Earth Sciences? Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling (CPOM): Dr Katharine Giles (Natural Environment Research Council postdoctoral fellow), PhD student Rosemary Willatt and Director of CPOM Dr Seymour Laxon.

PASADENA, Calif. The Kilauea volcano that recently erupted on the Big Island of Hawaii will be the target for a NASA study to help scientists better understand processes occurring under Earth's surface.

PASADENA, Calif.—If you're sitting on a bench in New York City's Central Park in winter, you're probably freezing. After all, the average temperature in January is 32 degrees Fahrenheit. But if you were just across the pond in Porto, Portugal, which shares New York's latitude, you'd be much warmer—the average temperature is a balmy 48 degrees Fahrenheit.

Science | Schools Guest: David Pyle | 29 Mar 11 The first I heard about ' I'm a Scientist ' was from a link on NERC 's website, advertising upcoming science engagement activities.

Science | Schools Guest: David Pyle | 29 Mar 11 The first I heard about ' I'm a Scientist ' was from a link on NERC 's website, advertising upcoming science engagement activities.

PA 102/11 Global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) are now fully embedded in modern society, from in-car navigation to the timing of the world's financial transactions.

Oceanic wind speeds and wave heights have increased significantly over the last quarter of a century according to a major new study undertaken by ANU Vice-Chancellor Professor Ian Young. Published in Science , the study is the most comprehensive of its kind ever undertaken. Other authors include Swinburne University oceanographers Professor Alex Babanin and Dr Stefan Zieger.

A marine research consortium that includes a University of Plymouth team led by Jason Hall-Spencer has just received a €3.5million grant from the European Commission to fund vital research into the effects of ocean acidification.

March 17 marks St. Patrick's Day 'a day when shamrocks, Ireland and "wearing of the green" are especially en vogue.

A Phase II trial to treat skin erosions in patients suffering from the severe genetic skin disorder, Recessive Dystrophic Epidermolysis Bullosa (RDEB), begins today, led by a team of scientists and clinicians at King's Health Partners.

By Melissa Beattie-Moss Research/Penn State Crack open Bartlett's Familiar Quotations , and you'll find hundreds of quotes and quips about the concept of time.

Written by Jeanette Takamura , dean of Columbia's School of Social Work , who was in Tokyo to attend a conference when the March 11 earthquake and tsunami struck northern Japan.

At the click of a mouse button, scientists can virtually inspect the surface of our planet using widely available mapping software.

The economic aftershocks of the earthquake and tsunami which struck Japan on Friday are only slightly less difficult to fathom than the scale of the human tragedy and physical devastation.

The March 11, magnitude 9.0 earthquake in Japan may have shortened the length of each Earth day and shifted its axis. But don't worry-you won't notice the difference. Using a United States Geological Survey estimate for how the fault responsible for the earthquake slipped, research scientist Richard Gross of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., applied a complex model to perform a preliminary theoretical calculation of how the Japan earthquake-the fifth largest since 1900-affected Earth's rotation.

It was a hectic weekend at the Munrow Sports Centre between 25-27 February, as University of Birmingham Sport (UBSport) hosted the British Universities and Colleges Sport (BUCS) Individual Squash Championships.

Top Stories People Press Clips @Work What's Happening Faculty Authors The Call of the Arctic Scripps scientists deploy new technology to track changes facing inhabitants of the north Mario Aguilera |

The topography surrounding Sendai, Japan is clearly visible in this combined radar image and topographic view generated with data from NASA's Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) acquired in 2000.

— Miami — Scientists from the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science were part of a national research team to find two plumes of oil-based pollutants downwind of the BP Deep Water Horizon oil spill. In a study published in this week's issue of the journal Science , the research team offers new insight into the mechanism by which the crude oil traveled from the sea surface to the atmosphere.