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Chemistry World July 9, 2008 Lewis Brindley |
Water found in Moon rocks US researchers have found water in rocks from the Moon - prompting new questions about its origin.  |
Chemistry World July 21, 2010 James Urquhart |
Volatile elements locked in moon rock Samples of a mineral present on the Moon and on Earth have been found to contain almost the same concentrations of hydrogen, chlorine and sulfur, adding weight to questions over how the Moon formed and evolved.  |
Chemistry World August 2009 Richard Corfield |
One giant leap NASA's Apollo missions answered many questions about the Moon - and as NASA unveils plans to return, lunar chemistry will again play a prominent role  |
Chemistry World August 5, 2010 Phillip Broadwith |
Dry Moon discovery Was there water on the Moon when it first formed? US geochemists say the distribution of chlorine isotopes in lunar rocks suggest not, or at least not as much as other recent studies have proposed  |
Geotimes October 2005 Naomi Lubick |
Moon Soil, Earth Air? Apollo astronauts brought back samples of soil from the moon that contained unexpectedly high levels of nitrogen. New research is shedding light on the anomaly.  |
Chemistry World July 30, 2009 James Urquhart |
Water linked to mantle oxidation US scientists have used an emerging technique to analyse minuscule samples of magma derived from the Earth's mantle in different tectonic environments and discovered a direct link between water content and the oxidation state of iron within the sample.  |
Smithsonian December 2006 Cate Lineberry |
Diamonds Unearthed In the first installment of a multi-part series, Smithsonian diamond expert Jeffrey Post, curator of the National Gem and Mineral Collection, explains how the rare crystals form.  |
Chemistry World October 6, 2014 Tim Wogan |
Solar wind whips up water on moon The volcanic glasses from the moon's soil let the scientists rule out other ways that water might have been created  |
Chemistry World October 20, 2015 Emma Stoye |
Ancient graphite may push start of life back by 300 million years Life on earth may have begun millions of years earlier than previously thought, claim researchers who have measured the carbon isotopes of graphite preserved in a 4.1 billion-year-old mineral.  |
Geotimes June 2007 Hansen & Gramling |
Are Volcanoes Picky Eaters? New measurements of the concentrations of elements within magma suggest a volcano's food may be a complex recipe -- and that what kind of magma a volcano prefers may affect its physical features, including the size to which it can grow, according to new research  |
Chemistry World May 9, 2013 James Urquhart |
Greener, cleaner steel US researchers have developed a greener way to produce metals such as steel. Their process could cut greenhouse gas emissions while using earth abundant and affordable metals.  |
IEEE Spectrum June 2009 William Sweet |
Do We Need to Go to the Moon to Get to Mars? Returning to the moon is not all that technically challenging. What's challenging is to make it an international effort that puts behind past grievances and sets the stage for a truly challenging international mission to Mars.  |
Chemistry World February 26, 2013 Holly Sheahan |
Capturing the potential of carbon dioxide A team of researchers from the University of Bath have opened up the idea of using carbon dioxide as a useful potential feedstock; a useful chemical resource rather than a troublesome waste product.  |
Geotimes November 2006 Kathryn Hansen |
Crystals Heat up Volcanic Eruptions Key pressure and temperature information preserved inside tiny bubbles in lava is causing scientists to rethink previous assumptions about how magma behaves, and what might trigger eruptions.  |
Science News May 9, 2009 |
Science Past From The Issue Of May 9, 1959 Scientists predict 25% increase in carbon dioxide by the year 2000.  |
Reactive Reports Issue 62 |
Take the Volcanic Fast-track to Nanotube Production Igneous rock from the Mount Etna volcanic eruptions could be used to mass produce carbon nanotubes, according to researchers.  |
Geotimes October 2006 Carolyn Gramling |
Flexing Plates Produce Volcanoes There's a new kind of volcano in town, according to a new study.  |
Popular Mechanics November 13, 2009 Jeremy Jacquot |
NASA Confirms There is Water on the Moon--But Where Did It Come From? By obtaining core samples like the ice cores collected by scientists in the Antarctic, it will be possible for scientists to study the climatic record of the moon and draw comparisons with the Earth's.  |
Geotimes September 2005 Sara Pratt |
Sourcing Ultradeep Diamonds Mineral impurities in a diamond may decrease the gem's value for jewelers, but for geologists they can prove to be priceless: South African diamonds containing garnet have recently provided evidence that very deep diamonds can form from surface materials.  |
Popular Mechanics October 2004 Harrison H. Schmitt |
Mining The Moon An Apollo astronaut argues that with its vast stores of nonpolluting nuclear fuel, our lunar neighbor holds the key to Earth's future.  |
Wired Sarah Douglas |
3 Weird Things About the Moon Three small unknown facts about the moon.  |
Chemistry World May 24, 2012 Jon Evans |
Can magma crystals predict eruptions? Mineral crystals blasted out from volcanoes can provide a window into the powerful processes going on inside those volcanoes, say UK and German earth scientists.  |
Chemistry World October 15, 2015 Aurora Walshe |
Carbon dioxide sees the light Collaborators in Spain and Germany have built a microreactor that uses visible light to drive a reaction that turns carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide -- an important chemical building block.  |
Chemistry World February 13, 2014 Tim Wogan |
Greener route to esters dodges toxic reactant The industrially important synthesis of esters could be set to become greener and safer as German chemists have found a way to use carbon dioxide in place of carbon monoxide for alkoxycarbonylation.  |
Chemistry World July 22, 2011 David Bradley |
Cracking diamonds reveals continental origins An analysis of the mineral inclusions in diamonds dredged up by eruptions from deep within the Earth has allowed scientists to get a handle on when the process of plate tectonics began.  |
IEEE Spectrum June 2009 William Stone |
Mining the Moon How the extraction of lunar hydrogen or ice could fuel humanity's expansion into space  |
Chemistry World April 10, 2014 Tim Wogan |
Nanocrystalline copper turns CO into fuel A new type of nanocrystalline copper electrode that catalyses the electrochemical conversion of carbon monoxide to alcohols has been demonstrated by researchers in the US.  |
Chemistry World September 24, 2009 Rajendrani Mukhopadhyay |
A moist moon Strong evidence for water on the moon's surface has been found by three separate spacecraft-based spectroscopic studies.  |
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Water On The Moon The moon isn't the dry dull place it seems. Traces of water lurk in the dirt unseen.  |
AboutSafety January 17, 2002 |
Carbon Monoxide Poisoning In Enclosed And Semi-Enclosed Worksites Carbon monoxide is an invisible gas with no taste or smell. A look at sources and recommended procedures for safety in the workplace.  |
Popular Mechanics September 2007 Thomas D. Jones |
The Lunar Base: How to Settle the Moon (and Pay for Sleepovers) A four-time Space Shuttle astronaut explains what life will be like on NASA's four-man outpost come 2020, when the anti-Apollo mission will cast off aboard a new rocket and send explorers to hazardous territory.  |
Geotimes May 2007 Carolyn Gramling |
Lava Cooks up Carbon Nanotubes Mount Etna may be a fiery factory for one of the most sought-after tools of nanotechnology: tiny carbon nanotubes.  |
Chemistry World November 19, 2014 Rebecca Trager |
Watching carbon dioxide's globetrotting New high-resolution simulations depicting how local geography affects the transport of carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere have been created by NASA.  |
Geotimes May 2004 Joshua Chamot |
Big Impact for a Small Moon Mineral Researchers have identified a new mineral from the moon, revealing new details about space weathering processes and offering a better understanding of remote observations of the moon and its brethren.  |
Popular Mechanics September 25, 2007 Rand Simberg |
Space Gas Station Would Blast Huge Payloads to the Moon Boeing has unveiled a radical redesign of NASA's plan to return to the lunar surface: save weight by saving gas for an orbital fill-'er-up, then shoot 15 times more material to the moon.  |
Science News August 18, 2007 |
Timeline: From the August 14, 1937, Issue New "Tree-Form" Columns Permit Clear Aisles... Sea Serpent's Skull Found by California Student... Industrial Plants Loose co 2 But Green Plants Return it...  |
| AskMen.com |
NASA To Bomb The Moon A pair of unmanned science probes will help determine where astronauts could land and set up camp in years to come.  |
Science News August 12, 2000 |
TimeLine: August 9, 1930 A Fish With Hands... Little Eros on Way to Visit Earth... Birthplace of the Moon...  |
Popular Mechanics September 24, 2009 Joe Pappalardo |
Water Found on Moon These images show a very young lunar crater on the side of the moon that faces away from Earth, as viewed by NASA's Moon Mineralogy Mapper on the Indian Space Research Organization's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft.  |
Popular Mechanics January 12, 2009 Andrew Moseman |
Moon-Rock Bricks Could Build Lunar Bases and Settlements One of NASA's most ambitious goals is to return to the moon and create a permanent base. Some scientists think that the materials for lunar buildings are on the moon already.  |
Reactive Reports Issue 63 David Bradley |
Natural Copy Cat While plants convert carbon dioxide into sugar and oxygen, chemists are having a more difficult time finding an efficient method for converting carbon dioxide into useful fuels.  |
Geotimes January 2004 Sara Pratt |
Geophenomena The devastating fires that ravaged Southern California this fall present an unprecedented research opportunity for geoscientists... The role of steam in lava flows thousands of meters beneath the ocean surface...  |
Geotimes October 2005 Megan Sever |
Carbon's Complicated River Ride Researchers recently found that carbon moves from the atmosphere, through trees, soil and water, and back into the atmosphere in fewer than five years, indicating that the landscape is not providing as much long-term storage of carbon dioxide as hoped.  |
Popular Mechanics February 23, 2009 Andrew Moseman |
Can NASA's New Climate Detective Find the Missing CO2? Early Tuesday morning, a Taurus XL rocket will ferry a CO2 sniffing satellite, the Orbiting Carbon Observatory, into space, where it will try to unlock secrets of Earth's carbon cycle.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2006 |
NASA's Hubble Looks for Possible Moon Resources NASA is using the unique optical capabilities of the Hubble Space Telescope for a new class of scientific observations of the Earth's Moon.  |
T.H.E. Journal January 2007 |
Earth & Moon Pro Pack by e frontier The pack includes 3-D video models of the Earth and moon, the International Space Station, and the Hubble Space Telescope, which work with the company's animation software, Poser.  |
Popular Mechanics June 17, 2009 Joe P. Hasler |
Do We Really Need Another Satellite Orbiting the Moon? It is a tale of two satellites, a shared destination, and two very different missions.  |
Reactive Reports November 2007 David Bradley |
Cats Don't Work Like That Scientists have discovered that the three-way catalytic converter in your car converts carbon monoxide into carbon dioxide in two reaction steps, instead of a single step as previously thought.  |
Technology Research News April 7, 2004 |
Fiber spun from nanotube smoke Researchers from the University of Cambridge in England have developed a relatively simple way to manufacture continuous fibers of carbon nanotubes.  |
Wired November 27, 2007 Richard Morgan |
Today, Countries Battle for a Piece of the Arctic. Tomorrow? The Moon. What has gone unnoticed amid the international clamor between Canada, Denmark, Norway, Russia, and the US is that the Arctic battle has implications that reach far beyond the top of Earth. The squabbling will be a prelude to -- and even set the tone for -- eventual sovereignty claims on the moon.  |