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Research and Markets: Rare Earths Elements in High-Tech Industries:...
2013-11-27 17:26:07| Semiconductors - Topix.net
Rare earth elements are used in CMP polishing slurries and as high-k dielectrics in the semiconductor industry.
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Watching Earth's Winds, On A Shoestring
2013-11-05 05:45:32| rfglobalnet News Articles
Built with spare parts and without a moment to spare, the International Space Station (ISS)-RapidScat isn't your average NASA Earth science mission.
XPRIZE dives into Earth's final frontier our oceans and their future health
2013-10-22 06:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The XPRIZE Foundation, once known for competitions for spaceflight innovation, has turned its focus to the seas, launching a series of new prizes for ocean health over the next seven years. The Ocean Initiative represents the biggest XPRIZE commitment to date, reinforcing earlier competitions for devices to monitor ocean acidification and clean up oil spills. "The oceans are in trouble. They have been under attack for the last half century, and we do feel we are at a tipping point right now,"...
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How Earths rotation affects vortices in nature, such as hurricanes and ocean currents
2013-10-15 16:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: What do smoke rings, tornadoes and the Great Red Spot of Jupiter have in common? They are all examples of vortices, regions within a fluid (liquid, gas or plasma) where the flow spins around an imaginary straight or curved axis. Understanding how geophysical (natural world) vortices behave can be critical for tasks such as weather forecasting and environmental pollution monitoring. In a new paper in the journal Physics of Fluids, researchers Junho Park and Paul Billant of the CNRS Laboratoire...
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The tundra: A dark horse in planet Earth's greenhouse gas budget
2013-10-10 15:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Vast areas on the Northern Hemisphere are covered by tundra. Here, dwarf shrubs, sedges, mosses etc. thrive on top of permafrost in areas where only the uppermost soil layer thaws during the short Arctic summer. New studies show that the tundra may become a source of CO2 in the future. Researcher Magnus Lund from Aarhus University explains: "The soil below the tundra contains very large quantities of carbon -- more than twice as much as is present in the planet's entire atmosphere. Therefore,...
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