Earth Sciences News from SciGuru.com for latest discoveries and developments in earth sciences http://www.sciguru.com http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3813/Beware-the-smell-of-bitter-almonds.-Why-do-many-food-plants-contain-cyanide?-/ Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:10:50 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3813 In murder mysteries, the detective usually diagnoses cyanide poisoning by the scent of bitter almonds wafting from the corpse. The detective knows wha http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3810/Asteroid-Impact-in-2182?/ Thu, 29 Jul 2010 10:55:47 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3810 Scientists are reporting that a 560-meter diameter asteroid could hit the Earth in the year 2182. "The total impact probability of asteroid '(101955) http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3807/Two-Catalysts-Are-Better-Than-One/ Thu, 29 Jul 2010 10:13:53 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3807 Much like two children in the back seat of a car, it can be challenging to get two catalysts to cooperate for the greater good. Now Northwestern Unive http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3806/Unraveling-the-Matrix-to-Improve-Signal-processing-Applications-and-Data-compression-Schemes/ Thu, 29 Jul 2010 07:01:39 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3806 Among the most common tools in electrical engineering and computer science are rectangular grids of numbers known as matrices. The numbers in a matrix http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3805/Best-hope-for-saving-Arctic-sea-ice-is-cutting-soot-emissions,-says-Stanford-researcher/ Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:07:31 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3805 Soot from the burning of fossil fuels and solid biofuels contributes far more to global warming than has been thought, according to a new Stanford stu http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3802/In-the-'neck'-of-time:-Scientists-unravel-key-evolutionary-trait-leading-to-better-brain-power/ Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:41:37 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3802 By deciphering the genetics in humans and fish, scientists now believe that the neck - that little body part between your head and shoulders - gave hu http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3797/Caltech-Astronomer-Finds-Planets-in-Unusually-Intimate-Dance-around-Dying-Star-/ Wed, 28 Jul 2010 09:18:32 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3797 Hundreds of extrasolar planets have been found over the past decade and a half, most of them solitary worlds orbiting their parent star in seeming iso http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3792/Stars-Just-Got-Bigger:-A-300-Solar-Mass-Star-Uncovered/ Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:32:26 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3792 Using a combination of instruments on ESO's Very Large Telescope, astronomers have discovered the most massive stars to date, one weighing at birth mo http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3791/The-Flight-of-Migrating-Microbes/ Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:17:09 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3791 Every day, millions of microorganisms travel with the wind from one place on Earth to another. Bacteria, funguses and viruses on dust particles can mo http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3790/Scientists-Set-Sail-to-Map-the-Arctic-Seafloor/ Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:03:42 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3790 American and Canadian scientists are setting sail this summer to map the Arctic seafloor and gather data to help define the outer limits of the contin http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3788/Oil-dispersants-used-in-Gulf-of-Mexico-unlikely-to-be-endocrine-disrupters-and-have-low-toxicity/ Tue, 27 Jul 2010 11:05:25 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3788 Government scientists are reporting that eight of the most commonly used oil dispersants used to fight oil spills, such as the massive episode in the http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3787/Caltech-Team-Finds-Evidence-of-Water-in-Moon-Minerals/ Tue, 27 Jul 2010 10:50:50 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3787 That dry, dusty moon overhead? Seems it isn't quite as dry as it's long been thought to be. Although you won't find oceans, lakes, or even a shallow p http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3785/Mountain-marmots-made-bigger-by-climate-change,-says-new-study/ Mon, 26 Jul 2010 18:04:48 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3785 The research, carried out by scientists at Imperial College London and collaborators in the UK and USA, looked at a population of yellow-bellied marmo http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3781/UBC-researcher-discovers-ancient-"stress-hormone"-in-pre-historic-fish/ Mon, 26 Jul 2010 17:33:58 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3781 A University of British Columbia zoologist has discovered a new corticosteroid hormone in the sea lamprey, an eel-like fish and one of the earliest ve http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3773/Detector-Technology-Could-Help-NASA-Find-Earth-like-Exoplanets-/ Mon, 26 Jul 2010 08:03:31 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3773 The hunt is on for Earth-like planets outside of our solar system. Since the 1990s, astronomers have detected more than 450 extrasolar planets-mostly http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3767/Researchers-identify-DNA-damage-repair-gene-in-Fanconi-anemia-pathway/ Sun, 25 Jul 2010 08:01:28 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3767 After more than a century of technological refinements, zippers still get stuck. So do the molecular machines that routinely unzip the double helix of http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3765/Redundant-genetic-instructions-in-'junk-DNA'-support-healthy-development/ Sat, 24 Jul 2010 17:50:23 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3765 Seemingly redundant portions of the fruit fly genome may not be so redundant after all. New findings from a Princeton-led team of researchers suggest http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3760/Antarctica-Traced-from-Space/ Sat, 24 Jul 2010 09:51:22 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3760 Antarctica may not be the world's largest landmass -- it's the fifth-largest continent -- but resting on top of that land is the world's largest ice s http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3759/NASA-Spacecraft-Camera-Yields-Most-Accurate-Mars-Map-Ever/ Sat, 24 Jul 2010 09:41:04 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3759 A camera aboard NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft has helped develop the most accurate global Martian map ever. Researchers and the public can access the http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3756/Newly-discovered-asteroid-named-for-Nobel-laureate-Elie-Wiesel/ Sat, 24 Jul 2010 08:48:08 -0400 http://www.sciguru.com/newsitem/3756 Last May, a minor planet-also known as an asteroid-discovered by an amateur astronomer was officially named "Eliewiesel" in honor of 1986 Nobel Peace