News articles tagged with 'clay'
Opalinus Clay as a potential host rock for nuclear waste repositories
— 8 Mar 2011 14:29 | ChemistryScientists at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), Germany, have studied natural claystone in the laboratory for more than four years in order to determine how the radioactive…
Clay-armoured bubbles may have formed first protocells
— 7 Feb 2011 15:07 | ChemistryA team of applied physicists at Harvard's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), Princeton, and Brandeis have demonstrated the formation of semipermeable vesicles from inorganic…
NYU researchers find corn starch solution can help shape solid materials
— 5 Nov 2010 14:00 | TechnologyNew York University researchers have developed a method to shape solid materials using a corn starch solution. The process, devised by researchers in NYU's Courant Institute of Mathematical…
Tiny clays curb big earthquakes
— 25 Jun 2010 10:05 | Geology and palaeontologyCalifornia's San Andreas fault is notorious for repeatedly generating major earthquakes and for being on the brink of producing the next 'big one' in a heavily populated area. But the…
NASA's Mars rovers set surface longevity record
— 20 May 2010 14:25 | AstronomyNASA's Mars Exploration Rover Project will pass a historic Martian longevity record on Thursday, May 20. The Opportunity rover will surpass the duration record set by NASA's Viking…
New material absorbs, conserves oil
— 7 Feb 2010 16:50 | TechnologyAn ultra-lightweight sponge made of clay and a bit of high-grade plastic draws oil out of contaminated water but leaves the water behind…
Mountain on Mars may answer big question
— 4 Mar 2009 18:40 | AstronomyThe Martian volcano Olympus Mons is about three times the height of Mount Everest, but it's the small details that Rice University professors Patrick McGovern and Julia Morgan are looking…
Nitrous oxide emissions respond differently to no-till depending on the soil type
— 23 Oct 2008 10:10 | EnvironmentThe practice of no-till has increased considerably during the past 20 years. The absence of tillage coupled with the accumulation of crop residues at the soil surface modifies several…
Phoenix sees falling snow on Mars
— 29 Sep 2008 21:20 | AstronomyNASA's Phoenix spacecraft has detected snow falling from Martian clouds. Lander's soil experiments also have provided evidence of past interaction between minerals and liquid water,…
Widespread and hardworking water on ancient Mars
— 17 Jul 2008 15:32 | AstronomyPapers by Brown University scientists show that water on ancient Mars was pervasive and was working hard, changing the minerals below ground and on the surface. The paper in Nature…