The Gold Bug
EurekAlert tells me these dudes in Australia are breeding their fortunes after finding a germ that, in effect, lays golden eggs:
… Read the rest “The Gold Bug”“A number of years ago we discovered that the metal-resistant
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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 in some coastal… Read the rest “Global warming real estate.”
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 killed off the dinosaurs after all… Read the rest “Scratch that asteroid.”
The sunken ocean.
Science Daily reveals something more lost than any lost continent – remnants of a time when an ocean itself sank and disappeared:
… Read the rest “The sunken ocean.”Using new computer modelling programs Wouter Schellart
Science Art: Lanai & Western Maui, from STS-99 Shuttle Radar Topography Mission Imagery
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:
… Read the rest “Rock Will Save The Planet”CleanTechnica.com:
Scientists at Columbia University have discovered that a rock found in the Middle East can be used to soak up carbon dioxide at
The Lost World.
National Geographic takes us to a lost world, hidden under Antarctic ice for 14 million years:
… Read the rest “The Lost World.”Researchers found the freeze-dried remains of mosses, algae, small crustaceans, and beetles
“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 north half of … Read the rest ““Something big smacked into Mars…””