Coral Along the walls of Oceanographer Canyon, fish dart in and out of colorful anemone gardens and sea creatures send up plumes of sand and mud as they burrow. Bill Ryan, an oceanographer at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, watched the scenes through the windows of a mini research submarine […]
Authorities say an earthquake measuring 5.3 has struck eastern and central Romania, and was felt in neighboring Moldova. The National Earth Physics Institute said the quake hit at 02:11 a.m. Saturday (2311 GMT) and its epicenter was in the eastern Vrancea region, known for its seismic activity. There were reports […]
Landslides constitute one of the most destructive geological hazards in the world today. One of the main reasons for this is because of the high speeds that slides can reach, up to 160 km/hour (100 mph). Another is the fact that these slides can carry quite a bit of debris […]
THINKSTOCK Horses have joined a select group of animals that can communicate by pointing at symbols. Scientists trained horses, by offering slices of carrot as an incentive, to touch a board with their muzzle to indicate if they wanted to wear a rug. The horses’ requests matched the weather, suggesting […]
Panoromic view of PSLV-C35 at First Launch Pad. Photo Credit: ISRO The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is planning on carrying out the longest mission of its PLSV launch vehicle on Monday, Sept. 26. The rocket is slated to deliver eight satellites to orbit after it lifts off from the First Launch […]
This image, captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, shows a burned-out white dwarf star shedding its outer layer of gas. A new image released by NASA shows the dazzling last moments of a star like our own sun. The image, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, shows a burned-out white […]
This photo taken on September 20, 2016 shows Chairman of Hyperloop Transportation Technologies Inc Bibop Gresta posing in front of a rendering of the Hyperloop technology at Innotrans, the railway industry’s largest trade fair, in Berlin. (John MacDougall / AFP) Is it a plane, is it a train? No, say […]
The Global Seed Vault opened in 2008 on Svalbard, Norway, above the Arctic Circle. Credit: Mari Tefre/Global Crop Diversity Trust, Creative Commons license Sometimes called the “doomsday vault,” the Svalbard Global Seed Vault is seen as humanity’s last hope against extinction after a world crisis. Though its mission is to keep […]
Red dwarf stars burn for much longer than our Sun. Credit: NASA, ESA, and D. Aguilar (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) Remember the movie Sunshine, where astronomers learn that the Sun is dying? So a plucky team of astronauts take a nuclear bomb to the Sun, and try to jump-start it […]
NASA announced last year that it intends to send a robotic spacecraft, equipped with a suite of scientific instruments, to circle Europa in the 2020s There’s something going on beneath the surface of Jupiter’s icy moon Europa. But what? NASA teased a “surprising” announcement for Monday, based on Hubble Space […]