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Space
Sandbox Readied to Plot Mars Rover's Escape
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009 - 17:53:16 - Ehud Rattner
NASA plans to fill a 'sandbox' with simulated Martian soil this week to test escape manoeuvres for the Mars rover Spirit, which has been stuck in a...

General Science
Vegetation May Not Slow Wave Erosion
Tuesday, June 9th, 2009 - 15:48:10 - Ehud Rattner
One assumption behind attempts to restore coastal wetlands as natural buffers against storms and floods may be wrong, a study suggests. Experts...

General Science
New Device Lets Plants Talk
Wednesday, May 6th, 2009 - 10:05:53 - Anuradha Menon
Although technology has benefited agriculture in a number of ways, there are some things that growers still do the old-fashioned way. Among them is...

Biology
Water Holding Frog
Water Holding Frog
Thursday, March 19th, 2009 - Sarah GIngichashvili
In a water-deprived region of Northern Australia, the water-holding frog survives by burying itself into the soil to avoid...

Biology
Fish Have a Memory Span of a Few Months
Wednesday, December 31st, 2008 - 18:59:42 - Iddo Genuth
Innovative research by the Technion’s Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, which was presented at the joint annual conference of the...

Environment
Global Warming's Ecosystem Double Whammy
Sunday, September 21st, 2008 - 17:46:47 - Ehud Rattner
Plants and soils act like sponges for atmospheric carbon dioxide, but new research finds that one abnormally warm year can suppress the amount of...

Space
Mars' soil is like Antarctica's
Mars' soil is like Antarctica's
Wednesday, July 9th, 2008 - Ehud Rattner
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander scraped the icy soil of the “Wonderland” area on June 26, confirming that subsurface soil and icy...

Space
Phoenix Inspects Martian Soil
Saturday, June 14th, 2008 - 18:14:09 - Iddo Genuth
New observations from NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander provide the most magnified view ever seen of Martian soil, showing particles clumping together even...

Space
Probelm with Phoenix Soil Sample
Monday, June 9th, 2008 - 14:22:43 - Iddo Genuth
On Sunday, Sol 14 of NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander mission, mechanical shakers inside the Thermal and Evolved-Gas Analyzer will attempt to loosen...

General Science
Charcoal is No More an Effective Carbon Sink
Friday, May 2nd, 2008 - 08:46:41 - Ehud Rattner
There has been greatly increasing attention given to the potential of ‘biochar’, or charcoal made from biological tissues (e.g., wood) to serve as a...

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