While mountains generally look like they've been there for ages, in some cases that's not true – at least as far as geology goes. Through the nature of their profession, geologists look at things that are, for instance, 120 million years old and say that they are fairly young. Such is the case with th... |
16 June 2009
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The Gamburtsev mountain range is one of the most visited destinations in Antarctica, because it offers a rich ground for scientists to conduct a large series of experiments in the most varied of research fields. In one such experiment, scientists have used radars to map the terrain underneath the ices, and get a glim... |
4 June 2009
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Searching for life outside our planet is not a very easy task, especially on account of the distance between ourselves and the next possibly populated world, but also because there exists a great possibility that all other life forms detected there could have a significantly different inner structure and organization... |
19 May 2009
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According to new investigations, it would appear that the eastern part of the Andes, especially that in Colombia, is, in fact, much older than previously estimated. Newly collected data shows that the faults that started giving birth to the mountains in fact became active some 25 million years ago, rather than seven ... |
18 May 2009
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Directly assessing the toughness of neutron stars spinning billions of light-years away is a physical impossibility for now, so Indiana University (IU) researcher Charles Horowitz, who is also a College of Arts and Sciences' Department of Physics professor, used supercomputer time at both the university and the ... |
7 May 2009
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New scientific surveys have discovered that underneath Antarctica's massive ice sheet there is also a mountain chain comparable in size to the Alps. This new information could easily help scientists develop new maps for the region's floor configuration, and could lead in the future to a better understanding... |
25 February 2009
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Those of you who got bored of climbing all the mountains on Earth might consider an exotic experience on Saturn's largest moon, Titan. I heard they've got some mighty good-looking mountains there. Well, the Cassini-Huygens probe has once again exceeded the expectations and done what no other space probe stu... |
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