Posted in Research Synopses on Sep 25th, 2006
[Antarctica, Global Warming, GRACE, Greenland, Research Synopsis]Late last week I ran across an article that finally spurred me to write a Published Research Synopsis after a break of nearly 6 months. What got me so excited is not just the very important conclusion (Greenland is melting, and faster than measured before), but also the […]
Posted in Research Synopses on Mar 21st, 2006
[Astronomy, Cassini, Cold Faithful, Enceladus, Life, Planetary Science, Saturn, Space, Water]Almost two weeks ago, Cassini mission scientists published a host of results pertaining to Saturn’s tiny moon Enceladus. The world had been given a hint of what to expect from the image on the right released last November that revealed a geyser of material […]
Posted in Research Synopses on Mar 4th, 2006
[disaster, Geologic Hazards, Geology, Volcano, yellowstone]Before reading this week’s Published Research Synopsis, hop on over to DamnInteresting.com and check out my latest entry A Big, Big Hole in the Ground. Now that you have the basics down about the Yellowstone Supervolcano, we can dig a little bit deeper into what geologists are doing to […]
Posted in Research Synopses on Feb 25th, 2006
[Astronomy, Hubble Space Telescope, moons, Planetary Science, Pluto, Science, Space]The image on the right is an artist’s conception of the view of the Pluto/Charon system from the surface of P2, one of Pluto’s recently discovered moons (credit: NASA). While we’ve known for a month or so that Pluto has two “new” moons the paper […]
Posted in Research Synopses on Feb 21st, 2006
[Antarctica, Climate Change, Glaciers, Global Warming, Greenland, Science]Over geologic time, sea level depends on the relative balance of the water stored in ice versus that stored in the oceans. Most of the Earth’s ice is stored near its poles where global warming has had the greatest effect thus far, and is projected to be […]
Posted in Research Synopses on Feb 15th, 2006
[Materialism, Science, VOC, Volatile Organic Compounds, Wine]While out to dinner last night (Valentine’s Day) a quick glance about revealed that more than half of the people in the restaurant were drinking wine. Some red, others white. But I’m sure that very few of them were thinking about what makes that wine so distinctive […]
Posted in Research Synopses on Feb 11th, 2006
[Eric Drexler, Nanotechnology, Nanotubes, Richard Smalley, Toxicity]You all probably know the feeling of reading a book that completely alters your outlook of the world, and of our future. When I read K. Eric Drexler’s Engines of Creation, I set down the book convinced that the future would be an amazing place powered by molecular […]
Posted in Research Synopses on Jan 31st, 2006
[Alternative Fuels, Biodiesel, Bioethanol, E85, Energy, Ethanol, Fossil Fuels, Research Synopsis]Here at Anthonares.net I will be expanding my discussion of energy issues as they become politically and economically more prominent. This week’s Published Research Synopsis examines a review paper in the journal Science that lays out the path we will need to take to […]
Posted in Research Synopses on Jan 25th, 2006
[Astronomy, ESA, Exoplanet, Gravitational Lensing, Microlensing, OGLE 2005 BLG 390Lb, Research Synopsis, Science]In a press conference this morning, astronomers announced the discovery of a planet with a likely mass of 5.5 times that of the Earth orbiting a red dwarf star some 21,500 light years away. This is not the lowest mass exoplanet discovered […]
Posted in Research Synopses on Jan 24th, 2006
[Asteroid, Dust Shower, Geologic Hazards, Geology, Research Synopsis, Veritas Family]I’ve selected this weeks article because it reaches an interesting conclusion through some fine logical reasoning. The authors describe the detection of two ancient dust showers (periods of relatively large dust fluxes into the atmosphere) and then convincingly argue that the more recent of the […]
