05/30/2019 01:00 AM EDT
Basaltic trachyandesite pahoehoe lava, which is 1975 degrees F (1080 degrees C), slowly stretches as it inflates. Ben Edwards, a professor of Earth sciences at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, was funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) through a RAPID (Grant for Rapid ...
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05/30/2019 01:00 AM EDT
Standing alongside a 30-meter-wide lava channel in the Leningradskoye lava field requires proper protective padding. Even wearing special gear, it was too hot to remain at the 1080-degree-Celsius lava's edge for more than one or two minutes during the Tolbachik 2012-2013 eruption, which began Nov. ...
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05/30/2019 01:00 AM EDT
An isolate lava lobe in the Leningradskoye lava field during the Tolbachik 2012-2013 eruption that began Nov. 27, 2012, after 36 years of inactivity. The cooling pahoehoe lava flow surface is still glowing hot inside. Ben Edwards, a professor of Earth sciences at Dickinson College in Carlisle, ...
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05/30/2019 01:00 AM EDT
Russian scientists observe the top of lava that is moving through the snow, which is about 6 feet (2 meters) deep. In the foreground, a researcher hurriedly digs a pit in the snow to observe how the lava is moving through the snowpack. Ben Edwards, a professor of Earth sciences at Dickinson ...
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05/30/2019 01:00 AM EDT
A Strombolian blast from the main crater of the Naboko vent, which fed the Leningradskoye and Toludskoye lava fields during the 2012-2013 Tolbachik eruption that began Nov. 27, 2012, after 36 years of inactivity. Ben Edwards, a professor of Earth sciences at Dickinson College in Carlisle, ...
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05/30/2019 01:00 AM EDT
The main lava channel from the Leningradskoye lava field during the Tolbachik 2012-2013 eruption, which began Nov. 27, 2012, after 36 years of inactivity. Outside air temperatures during January fieldwork were close to 0 degrees F, but work along the lava flow kept researchers warm. Ben Edwards, ...
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05/30/2019 01:00 AM EDT
A thermal probe and datalogger (yellow) record the temperature of basaltic trachyandesite lava as it flows onto a snow bank in the Toludskoye lava field, which is in the southeastern part of the newly formed Tolbachik lava field. Ben Edwards, a professor of Earth sciences at Dickinson College in ...
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05/30/2019 01:00 AM EDT
A view looking to the south across the growing crater rim of the Naboko cone showing Strombolian bursts and semitransparent gas clouds during the 2012-2013 Tolbachik eruption, which began on Nov. 27, 2012, after 36 years of inactivity. Ben Edwards, a professor of Earth sciences at Dickinson ...
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05/30/2019 01:00 AM EDT
A tear-dropped shape "bocca," or mouth, of a lava tube that was feeding a large, channelized lava flow in the Leningradskoye lava field during the 2012-2013 Tolbachik eruption, which began Nov. 27, 2012, after 36 years of inactivity. Ben Edwards, a professor of Earth sciences at Dickinson ...
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05/30/2019 01:00 AM EDT
Ropey, a basaltic trachyandesite pahoehoe lava, flows across the snow in the upper Toludskoye lava field, which is in the southeastern part of the newly formed Tolbachik lava field. Ben Edwards, a professor of Earth sciences at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, was funded by the ...
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05/30/2019 01:00 AM EDT
On April 10, a team of international scientists from Event Horizon Telescope project unveiled the first ever image of a black hole at the center of the M87* galaxy. We invited computer scientist Dr. Katie Bouman and astronomer Dr. Colin Lonsdale from the EHT project to answer questions from our ...
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05/29/2019 01:00 AM EDT
Researchers at Michigan State University, studying the decline of monarch butterflies, found that a critical piece of the butterflyÂs annual cycle was missing: fall migration. By focusing on this southerly trek, as well as changing the scale at which winter populations are examined, scientists ...
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05/29/2019 01:00 AM EDT
Researchers at Michigan State University, studying the decline of monarch butterflies, found that a critical piece of the butterflyÂs annual cycle was missing: the fall migration. By focusing on this southerly trek, as well as changing the scale at which winter populations are examined, scientists ...
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05/29/2019 01:00 AM EDT
Researchers at Michigan State University, studying the decline of monarch butterflies, found that a critical piece of the butterflyÂs annual cycle was missing: fall migration. By focusing on this southerly trek, as well as changing the scale at which winter populations are examined, scientists ...
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05/29/2019 01:00 AM EDT
Field scientists work on the meteorological/flux tower at the Woodworth terrestrial field site in North Dakota, a National Science Foundation National Ecological Observatory Network, or NEON, site. Learn more about NEON Here. (Date ...
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05/29/2019 01:00 AM EDT
NSF-funded cognitive neuroscientists at George Washington University have found that a personÂs knowledge about the size of everyday objects impacts how our brains process and interact with the visual environment.
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05/28/2019 01:00 AM EDT
Josie Fraticelli examines the 3D printed prosthetic created for her by Virginia Tech assistant professor Blake Johnson and his interdisciplinary team of student researchers. Fraticelli was born with amniotic band syndrome where string-like amniotic bands restricted blood flow and affected ...
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05/28/2019 01:00 AM EDT
A mold of Josie Fraticelli's hand that was scanned during development of a 3D printed personalized prosthetic, created for her in the lab of Virginia Tech assistant professor Blake Johnson. Johnson's lab has taken steps forward to integrate electronic sensors with personalized 3D printed ...
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05/28/2019 01:00 AM EDT
Graduate student Yuxin Tong works with a 3D printed prosthetic in the lab of Blake Johnson, a Virginia Tech assistant professor of industrial and systems engineering. Johnson's lab has taken steps forward to integrate electronic sensors with personalized 3D printed prosthetics -- a development that ...
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05/28/2019 01:00 AM EDT
Industrial and systems engineering graduate student Yuxin Tong adjusts a 3D printed prosthetic in the lab of Virginia Tech assistant professor Blake Johnson. Johnson's lab has taken steps forward to integrate electronic sensors with personalized 3D printed prosthetics -- a development that could ...
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