A giant impact dome was discovered under the Timor Sea. This is one of many impacts that pummeled the planet around 35 million years ago, possibly cooling it enough to spur the formation of ice sheets on Antarctica.
Government and industry attempts to withhold information are delaying our ability to understand and respond to the spill, not to mention hold the parties involved responsible.
The big blue ocean takes up a large chunk of our planet and yet our understanding of its enormity is shockingly poor. A new study calculates the oceans depth and volume, bringing us one step closer to defining just how ...
Even if you breezed through a few geology classes in your day, it's easy to think of the Earth's interior like a Cadbury Egg: solid on the outside and molten in the center. Yet we've known for more than 60 ...
Canada has a high tech toy to help them win the New Arctic Land Grab: a big, yellow submarine.
It's easy to imagine the Arctic ice cap as it looks on a globe -- pinned firmly to one spot. However, that's not the case. Sea ice is free to roam when it breaks up, bobbing out of the Arctic ...
Giant, extinction-sized asteroids hurtling into Earth may grab headlines and star in Hollywood blockbusters, but airbursts from smaller asteroids and comets are thought to occur once every 500-1,000 years, making them one of the most pressing threats to humanity from ...
Gentle reader: The roots of all witch hunts, as we learned centuries ago, are buried in human psychology. Sadly, the current crescendo in the witch hunt against climate scientists is no different. Happily, however, there are people who study these ...
New sensors built using nanotechnology could read and write information directly into the brain.
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