News articles tagged with 'water' (Page 100)
Water discovered on a giant extrasolar planet
— 12 Jul 2007 07:01 | AstronomyScientists report the first conclusive discovery of the presence of water vapour in the atmosphere of a planet beyond our Solar System. The discovery was made by analysing the transit…
Life elsewhere in Solar System could be different from life as we know it
— 6 Jul 2007 19:18 | AstronomyThe search for life elsewhere in the solar system and beyond should include efforts to detect what scientists sometimes refer to as 'weird' life - that is, life with an alternative…
Hydrocarbons found on Hyperion
— 5 Jul 2007 02:32 | AstronomyNASA's Cassini spacecraft has revealed for the first time surface details of Saturn's moon Hyperion, including cup-like craters filled with hydrocarbons that may indicate more widespread…
Thousand-year-old Arctic ponds disappearing due to global warming
— 3 Jul 2007 02:36 | EnvironmentResearch has uncovered alarming evidence that high Arctic ponds, many which have been permanent bodies of water for thousands of years, are completely drying out during the polar summer.…
Computer models suggest planetary and extrasolar planet atmospheres
— 19 Jun 2007 18:39 | AstronomyThe world is abuzz with the discovery of an extrasolar, Earth-like planet around the star Gliese 581 that is relatively close to our Earth at 20 light years away in the constellation…
New life discovered in the Antarctic deep sea
— 16 May 2007 19:10 | BiologyScientists have found hundreds of new marine creatures in the vast, dark deep-sea surrounding Antarctica. Carnivorous sponges, free-swimming worms, crustaceans, and molluscs living…
Ancient amphibians evolved a bite before migrating to dry land
— 18 Apr 2007 00:05 | Geology and palaeontologyAncient aquatic amphibians developed the ability to feed on land before completing the transition to terrestrial life, researchers from Harvard University report this week in the Proceedings…
New system developed by Scripps researchers
— 22 Mar 2007 12:15 | BiologyTracing the origins of marine animals can be extremely difficult, especially in the free-flowing, soup-like conditions of the ocean, but obtaining this information is vital not only…
Caribbean extinctions occurred 2M years after apparent cause
— 12 Mar 2007 23:17 | Geology and palaeontologySmithsonian scientists and colleagues report a new study that may shake up the way palaeontologists think about how environmental change shapes life on Earth. The researchers summarised…