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The Moon May Have Sunk the Titanic The Moon may have played an important role in the loss of the Royal Mail Ship (RMS) Titanic, a team of experts now proposes. They say that a very rare lunar event caused a night of very big tides on January 4, 1912, forcing... [read more >>] Potential Shale Oil and Gas Reserves in Ala... Politicians in the United States can often be heard talking about how American dependency on foreign oil and gas is one of the nation's greatest weakness. In response to this situation, the US Geological Survey has jus... [read more >>] Earth Formed 10 Million Years After the Sun A paper published in the February 16 issue of the top journal Science suggests that some of the rocks on our planet were extremely slow to change and undergo recycling. These data are now added to a growing body of gaps in ... [read more >>] Bahamian Caves May Reveal How Life Evolved Underwater caves may hold the answer to one of the most important questions in the world – how did life evolve? A particular set of such caves, located in the Bahamas, may be especially suited to answer this question,... [read more >>] Top 5 Most Brutal Insects This particular top 5 is not conceived based on which insect kills the most people, which carries the most venom, which is the most vicious, or which is the most brutal. Rather, the classification ranks these little buggers... [read more >>] Anniversary: Antarctic Exploration Turns 100 Today marks the 100th anniversary of Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen reaching the South Pole. The event occurred on December 14, 1911, when the Norwegian explorer and four others managed to reach 90° 0′ latitud... [read more >>] This Year's Climate Conference Fails as Well Even though many of the representatives who participated at the 2011 UN Climate Change Conference (COP17), in Durban, South Africa, would have you believe that the agreement reached yesterday, December 11, is valid and a st... [read more >>] Our Time to Address Climate Change Is Runn... The fact that we must stop global warming is visible to everyone who is even marginally sane, but action to remedy the effects we are having on the planet still continues to be avoided. Now, a group of researchers show prec... [read more >>] Global Temperatures Increased by 1ºC Since t... The results of the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature study – a major research initiative conducted to confirm or infirm global warming – finds that the phenomenon is indeed real. The paper shows that average te... [read more >>] First Global Greenhouse Gas Distribution Ma... After spending around 36 months flying over the entire world – from the Arctic to Antarctica – experts with the HIAPER Pole-to-Pole Observations (HIPPO) campaign announce that they have sufficient data to compil... [read more >>]

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