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Haven't we been told there's water on Mars before?
Science, Maths & Technology

Haven't we been told there's water on Mars before?

...carbon dioxide. [Part of Nirgal Vallis, a valley on Mars first seen on this image by Mariner 9 in 1972. This image is 120km from side to side] Part of Nirgal Vallis, a valley on Mars first seen on this image by Mariner 9 in 1972. This image is 120km from side to side. In the 1970s attention turned to the much juicier topic of liquid water on Mars, with the discovery by...
Sea level rise in Tuvalu, South Pacific
Nature & Environment

Sea level rise in Tuvalu, South Pacific

...carbon sinks, where carbon dioxide is removed from the atmosphere, such as by increasing tree cover. The ASIS argues that damaging greenhouse emissions have been caused primarily by the burning of fossil fuels, mainly by rich industrialised countries. They argue that as small island states have not been responsible for the damaging greenhouse gas emissions, but are...
To the Moon and beyond
Science, Maths & Technology

To the Moon and beyond

...carbon-nitrogen water that is essential for life and these very early studies found that there was barely any volatiles present on the moon and that it was a born dry planetary body. However, in 2008, Saal et al published a paper looking at green glass which is produced in firefight interruptions to the moon surface and they found significant quantities of volatiles...
Thomas Stocker - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Thomas Stocker - Stories of Change

...carbon budget. That is now firmly engrained in the Working Group One contribution in the summary for policymakers, and made it all the way up into the synthesis report and became a unifying principle for the joint messages of the working group, one, two and three in the synthesis report summary for policymakers. The carbon budget is essentially the sum of all the carbon...
Hot rolling
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Hot rolling

...carbon and alloy steels stainless steels aluminium alloys copper alloys titanium alloys nickel-based alloys With hot rolling it is easier to deform difficult-to-work metals than with cold rolling. Cast ingot structures, at heavy deformations and at temperatures where recrystallisation occurs, promote recrystallisation. Control of the sheet temperature can produce...
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Orbital forging
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Orbital forging

...carbon and low-alloy steels, stainless steels, aluminium alloys and brasses. Powder compacts can be orbitally forged to increase their densities to near theoretical. This is a type of powder forging. Design: Process is used to produce components with large-diameter flanges up to 150 mm dia. Components include bevel gears, claw clutch parts, wheel discs with hubs, bearing...
Sniffing out signs of life
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Sniffing out signs of life

...carbon. As temperatures change, different volatiles become more prominent; think about the difference between the smell of rising dough and the smell of baking bread coming from a hot oven! Smells or odours aren’t always detectable by the human nose but they are present in much of the Earth and its atmosphere, forests, oceans and cities (Figure 2). VOCs can be produced...
Can we be categorised by our DNA?
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Can we be categorised by our DNA?

...footprints of historical migrations in the Iberian Peninsula’, Nature Communications 10(551). Available at: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-08272-w Chacón-Duque, JC., Adhikari, K., Fuentes-Guajardo, M. et al. (2018) ‘Latin Americans show wide-spread Converso ancestry and imprint of local Native ancestry on physical appearance’, Nature Communications 9(5388)....