The Gold Bug
EurekAlert tells me these dudes in Australia are breeding their fortunes after finding a germ that, in effect, lays golden eggs: “A number of years […]
geology
Global warming real estate.
You’d expect the rising ocean levels to decimate coastlines, but the New York Times points out that melting glaciers are, rather surprisingly, raising land levels […]
Scratch that asteroid.
Science Daily blows a hole in what had been history’s biggest explosion with news that that colossal asteroid that made the Yucatan might not have […]
The sunken ocean.
Science Daily reveals something more lost than any lost continent – remnants of a time when an ocean itself sank and disappeared: Using new computer […]
Science Art: Lanai & Western Maui, from STS-99 Shuttle Radar Topography Mission Imagery
Click to embiggen vastly Topographic radar images of two Hawaiian islands. Rainbows in a void. You can read more about the image at NASA’s gallery.
Rock Will Save The Planet
OK, it’s a specific kind of rock: CleanTechnica.com: Scientists at Columbia University have discovered that a rock found in the Middle East can be used […]
The Lost World.
National Geographic takes us to a lost world, hidden under Antarctic ice for 14 million years: Researchers found the freeze-dried remains of mosses, algae, small […]
“Something big smacked into Mars…”
“…and stripped half the crust off the planet.” That’s a new theory about the Red Planet reported in Science News and elsewhere. The problem: The […]