A leading designer working on the MMO World of Warcraft, the most popular subscription based game in the world, has suggested that the company is already working on the next expansion for the title and will seek to add a new continent to the game.Greg Street, who is the lead system designer working at Blizzard on Wor... |
7 December 2010
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We know how the seven continents are arranged today and we are aware (and it's easy to observe) that they were once grouped up in a single, massive continent, called Pangaea. But what's the mysterious force that caused the division of the continents and keeps moving them apart? New studies associate the con... |
16 December 2008
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When you think about the way the planet chooses to drive its continents apart from one another, you're surely thinking thundering sound, catastrophic imagery and, generally, a lot of turmoil. Perhaps even scientists thought the same. This is why the recent event, which literally tears the African continent apart... |
11 December 2008
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The official website of the Beijing Olympics, Beijing2008.cn, attracted over 16 million visitors in just the first ten days following the opening ceremony. The website, with versions in Chinese, English, French, Spanish and Arabic, managed to be incredibly popular, thus underscoring the fact that people's attent... |
26 August 2008
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The molten rock inside the planet's mantle is in continuous motion as heat is convected from the inner regions towards the outer ones, forming the so-called convection cells where the hot material is being pushed upwards and the colder one falls back down in the vicinity of the core. The motion of this material ... |
3 July 2008
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Since the 19th century, scientists noticed that similar fossils were found in nowadays continents located far away one from another. At the beginning of the 20th century, the American geologists suggested that continents could come off one from another. In 1915, the German scientist Alfred Wegener, in his work "The O... |
17 January 2008
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The kapok tree is going to solve a mystery that has puzzled the biologists for a long time: the similarity between African and South American rainforests.The two continents split 130 millions years ago; still, their forests are too similar, and it seems that 96 million years ago, they were still exchanging flora.A te... |
18 June 2007
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This is the roof of the world. The way the highest mountainous chain (Himalaya) and plateau (Tibet) on Earth have formed has always fascinated scientists. Cornell geologist Larry Brown is lead-researcher of an international seismic profiling team that has been working for more than 15 years in Tibet, using explosion... |
7 May 2007
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