News articles tagged with 'cores'
Sensational climate research in the Arctic
— 4 Jun 2009 14:11 | Geology and palaeontologyAn international team of researchers from Russia, Germany, the USA and Austria has conducted a deep drilling programme in the utmost northeast of Russia during the last six months to... — full story
Drilled cores yield unique Arctic climate data
— 2 Jun 2009 15:32 | Geology and palaeontologyA team of scientists from the United States, Germany, Russia and Austria returned recently from a six-month sediment drilling expedition at a frozen lake in Siberia, where they retrieved... — full story
Seeking Earth's past by drilling in remote Arctic
— 21 Mar 2009 17:10 | EnvironmentDrilling by an international team of palaeoclimatologists to retrieve sediment and meteorite-impact rocks began in mid-March under a frozen Siberian lake, with a goal to retrieve the... — full story
More chip cores can mean slower supercomputing
— 24 Jan 2009 16:52 | TechnologyThe worldwide attempt to increase the speed of supercomputers merely by increasing the number of processor cores on individual chips unexpectedly worsens performance for many complex... — full story
Geoscientists drill for secrets under Arctic lake
— 19 Dec 2008 13:20 | Geology and palaeontologyIn the next few days, a convoy of bulldozers and trucks will set out from a remote airport in Siberia, heading for a frozen lake 62 miles north of the Arctic Circle, but the trip isn't... — full story
Ice cores from Antarctica show fluctuations in the Earth's greenhouse gases
— 15 May 2008 11:00 | EnvironmentIce cores from Antarctica show both the lowest atmospheric content of CO2 (carbon dioxide) and fast changes in the content of CH4 (methane) measured over the past 800,000 years. Knowledge... — full story
Scientists to exhibit at National Science Foundation Open House
— 31 Jan 2008 08:25 | Geology and palaeontologyGeoscientists Julie Brigham-Grette and Robert Deconto of the University of Massachusetts Amherst have been invited to host one of 11 exhibits at the National Science Foundation Open... — full story
Arctic expeditions find giant mud waves, glacial tracks
— 12 Dec 2007 21:42 | EnvironmentScientists gathering evidence of ancient ice sheets uncovered a new mystery about what's happening on the Arctic sea floor today. Sonar images revealed that, in some places, ocean currents... — full story
New Tibetan ice cores missing A-bomb blast
— 12 Dec 2007 00:43 | Geology and palaeontologyIce cores drilled last year from the summit of a Himalayan ice field lack the distinctive radioactive signals that mark virtually every other ice core retrieved worldwide... — full story
European lead in reading past climates from ice cores
— 12 Oct 2007 11:06 | EnvironmentClimate change is a reality today, but how can we find out about the future dangers it poses? What we really need is a full record of the Earth's climate for several hundred thousand... — full story