Water believed to be at least 1.5 billion years old has been discovered by a team of researchers, who detail their findings in an article published this past May 15 in the scientific journal Nature. The water was found in a mine located at about 2.4 kilometers below the Earth's surface in Ontario, Ca... [read more >>] This past Tuesday, specialists working with the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology and the Geology Service of Brazil announced that they might have discovered a long-lost continent. This continent, now referred to as the Brazilian Atlantis, allegedly sunk into the Atlantic Ocean quite a ... [read more >>] A team of researchers writing in the journal Nature Geoscience claim that, according to their investigations, earthquakes can cause permanent damage to our planet.
More precisely, these researchers say that strong shakes in Chile have already deformed our planet, meaning that they have caused permanent cr... [read more >>] This April 20, China's Sichuan province was hit by a major earthquake which killed dozens and injured several thousand people.
Presently, is it believed that 71 people lost their lives during this earthquake, and over 2,000 suffered significant injuries.
According to China's seismological bure... [read more >>] Entomologists and ordinary folks in the United States are now readying themselves to come face to face with billions of cicadas. The insects are expected to show up on the country's East Coast between mid-April and late May. Specialists explain that the cicadas set to soon swarm the US East Coast are... [read more >>] According to an investigation carried out by researchers working with the University of Colorado Boulder, the asteroid blamed for the dinosaurs' demise did more than just create one big crater in the ground. Apparently, this asteroid must also be held responsible for literally setting the world on fire... [read more >>] This March 25, the Journal of Fish Biology witnessed the publication of a study documenting the discovery of the first-ever two-headed bull shark. The scientists who got the chance to analyze the animal's anatomy wish to stress the fact that, rather than being conjoined twins, this shark is a two-heade... [read more >>] According to a research whose findings were published in the scientific journal Nature Geoscience this past March 17, earthquakes are bound to turn water to gold.
Furthermore, it appears that gold-creating earthquakes need not even be of a great magnitude. Quite the contrary: even the smallest quake is fu... [read more >>] The news has broken that an 8.0 magnitude earthquake has hit the South Pacific, wiping out three villages and causing widespread panic.
Information made available to the public thus far says that the earthquake first and foremost affected the Santa Cruz islands in the Solomons, whose eastern regions were ... [read more >>] By the looks of it, the core of the Loch Ness monster-based tourism industry might soon shift from the Scottish Highlands to Siberia. This is because a team of Russian researchers now claim to have found remains belonging to one such legendary animal at the bottom of Lake Labynkyr.
This particular lake is... [read more >>] |
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