Nature says the earthquake prophet is IN. Or in the machine at least. For the first time, a machine-learning system beat human experts at figuring out where tremors would hit following a … Read the rest “AI successfully predicts earthquake aftershocks.”
Wilhelm Ritter von Haidinger was an Austrian mineralogist who during his career helped mining engineers dig better mines and looked at rocks that looked like other rocks… Read the rest “Science Art: Fall des Meteors am 9 Juni 1866, by Wilhelm Ritter von Haidinger”
The Guardian reveals that De Beers, the monolithic diamond firm (which has made artificial scarcity its business model for the better part of a century – actually posting guards … Read the rest “De Beers sells synthetic diamonds.”
What’s inside a Ukranian volcano. Or most volcanoes, wherever the are. From a Ukranian encyclopedia for Ukrainian miners (ISBN 966-7804-14-3).
Popular Mechanics takes a long look at what, at first glance, might easily be dismissed as another Egyptian desert pebble – but is, in fact, a meteorite fragment older than our planet,… Read the rest “Hypatia: A stone older than the solar system”
Nature is following the geologists who are tracking, for the first time, the impressive number of – and factors involved in –earthquakes believed to be caused by human activity… Read the rest “Human-triggered earthquakes – how do we know?”
SONG: “Frozen Atmospheres”.
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE:Record-shattering 2.7-million-year-old ice core reveals start of the ice ages,” Science, 15 Aug 2017, as used… Read the rest “SONG: Frozen Atmospheres”
BBC has more on the planet-spanning threat of supervolcanoes – like the one under Yellowstone that’s about due for a continent-shaking eruption – and their idea to … Read the rest “NASA’s got a plan to save us from supervolcanoes – by using them for power.”
(Plural intended.) Science magazine looks back at lots of tiny, tiny pockets of the distant past – with a deep ice core that contains samples of our changing atmosphere for 2.7 million… Read the rest “2.7 million-year-old ice shatters records, reveals ancient atmospheres – and ice ages.”
Nature reports on scientists with big drills in Iceland, trying to find out how it was that Surtsey Island came rising up from the ocean in the 1960s:
… Read the rest “50 years ago, Surtsey Island came into being. Now, we’re drilling to find out how.”It will be the most detailed look ever at
NPR has more on how potters inadvertently preserved a record of Earth’s magnetic field 3,000 years ago:
… Read the rest “Ancient pottery reveals the past of Earth’s magnetic field.”About 3,000 years ago, a potter near Jerusalem made a big jar. It was meant to
Science Daily peeks into the deep, deep history of the “Great Oxidation Event,” analyzing a very old sample of some of the first oxygen to appear on Earth:
… Read the rest “Our first breath of air, analyzed 2.3 billion years later.”Christopher Junium,
Big valley in the Antarctic ice. A bonus image for the New Year, from NASA’s Image Gallery, photographed a couple weeks before Thanksgiving 2016:
… Read the rest “Science Art: Rift in Antarctica’s Larsen C Ice Shelf, by NASA/John Sonntag”Ice shelves are
This photo is part of NASA’s IceBridge mission, an airborne survey of polar ice, which completed an eighth consecutive Antarctic deployment on Nov. 18 of this year.… Read the rest “Science Art: Mt. Balfour, Antarctica, by NASA/Joe MacGregor”
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