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  Underground Air Might Cause DNA Damage

  December 15, 2006 — Our everyday environments are full of airborne particles that are harmful to varying degrees when inhaled. Particularly damaging to our cellular DNA are the particles from the underground system in ... > full story
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  Acid Rain
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  Snottites, Other Biofilms Hasten Cave Formation

  December 12, 2006 — Biofilms, which are complex layered communities of sulfur-consuming microbes, increase the rate of cave formation, but may also shed light on other biofilms, including those that grow on teeth and ... > full story
• Nature of Water
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  The Point Of Icicles

  September 20, 2006 — Contemplating some of nature's cool creations is always fun. Now a team of scientists from The University of Arizona in Tucson has figured out the physics of how drips of icy water can swell into the ... > full story
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  Fossils
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  Australian Geologists Date World's Oldest Discovered Open Caves At 340 Million Years

  August 23, 2006 — Cave-dating research published by Australian geologists has found that the Jenolan Caves, in central NSW, are the world's oldest discovered open caves. The scientists have shown that the limestone ... > full story
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  New Method For Dating Ancient Earthquakes Through Cave Evidence Developed By Israeli Researchers

  May 8, 2005 — A new method for dating destructive past earthquakes, based on evidence remaining in caves has been developed by scientists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Geological Survey of ... > full story
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  The Platonic Form Of Stalactites

  December 6, 2004 — No matter whether they're big, little, long, short, skinny or fat -- classic stalactites have the same singular shape. Almost everyone knows that stalactites, formations that hang from the roof ... > full story
• Water
  Nature of Water
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  "Buried Dams" Help Clean Recycled Water

  March 7, 2002 — Disease-causing microbes can effectively be eliminated from recycled water by storing it underground, new research by CSIRO scientists has found. Promising research findings into natural ways to ... > full story
• Virtual Reality
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  Exploring Earth's Interior With Virtual Reality

  December 15, 2000 — U-M geologists describes how the use of virtual reality in the geological sciences can foster collaboration, enhance education and advance research into such complex processes as mixing behavior in ... > full story
• Earth Science
  Earthquakes
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  Tsunamis
   

  SMU Geophysicists Discover Large Blob Deep In The Earth

  October 20, 1999 — Southern Methodist University geophysicists, using the latest in seismic technology, have discovered a large blob of concentrated matter deep within the earth that may provide clues to better ... > full story
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  Climate
  Global Warming
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  Cave Yields Treasure Trove Of Climatic History

  December 14, 1998 — Stalagmites from a Missouri cave have yielded a clear picture of climate and vegetation change in the mid-continental region during the millennia leading up to the last ice age (75,000 to 25,000 ... > full story

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