Life that can survive a full-on asteroid impact.
Mashable discusses the discovery at Johns Hopkins of microbes that are hardy enough to have traveled across the vacuum of space and then survived the […]
geology
A new explanation for the missing billion years in Earth’s geologic record.
IFL Science has a new explanation of “The Great Unconformity,” a worldwide phenomenon in which about a billion years of rock deposits are just missing, […]
“Brain coral terrain” tells a story of Martian history.
The Planetary Science Institute reports on what space missions have learned from studying a strange, sinuous series of formations on the surface of Mars that […]
Far side of the moon’s fiery past.
Space reveals that the far side of the moon was once a vast, glowing ocean of magma, according to samples retrieved by a Chinese lunar […]
Science Art: Boulder ejected from Halemaumau, at Kīlauea, May 11, 1925
Such was science in 1925. A man in a fedora and tie, pointing at impact craters on the ground, standing next to a large rock, […]
Maybe the Earth had a ring like Saturn once…
Science Direct, or really, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, has a study of very old craters that suggests that in the Ordovician period, around 460 […]
SONG: Oceans Under Mars
SONG: “Oceans Under Mars”. (WAV version here.) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: PhysOrg, 12 Aug 2024, “Scientists find oceans of water on Mars. It’s just too deep […]
Science Art: Smithsonite, from the Smithsonian Natural Museum of Natural History.
This is a glowing hunk of rock, lit from within. The rock was found in the Kelly Mine in Magadela, New Mexico. Smithsonite is a […]
Climate change affects the Earth’s rotation more than the Moon does.
PhysOrg shares research from ETH Zurich that demonstrates something that should be obvious to anyone who’s played pool. But as the warming Earth makes the […]
Curiosity finds some exciting times on Mars.
Mashable reports on the Mars Rover Curiosity, which has just found evidence of some major flooding and splishing and splashing on the surface of Mars […]
Science Art: Earth by Henry De la Beche, from Researches in Theoretical Geology, 1834.
This depiction of Earth might be the first such image of our planet as seen from space. No human (as far as we know) had […]
SONG: Fine Altar Stone
SONG: “Fine Altar Stone”. (available as .ogg here) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on IFL Science, 25 Sep 2023, “The Stonehenge Altar Stone Didn’t Come From […]
Stonehenge’s altar is not like the other stones.
IFL Science takes a closer look at the massive stones of Stonehenge. Most of them seem to have been transported with great effort from a […]
Science Art: Loess Sediments Thickness, by Przemysław Mroczek, 2020.
This map shows where silt was laid down untold ages ago. According to its brief description on Wikimedia Commons, it depicts: Loess sediments distribution and […]
Science Art: Mauna Loa Northeast Rift Zone Eruption – November 28, 2022, Civil Air Patrol
Rivers of lava glow a burning orange, sending white plumes up from a black stone landscape. This is a photograph of Hawaii – a place […]