The reason for piling the pounds is often the fact that we can’t properly appreciate, or simply don’t care, about the sizes of our meals. The more we eat, the hungrier we feel, which is why, in time, servings in restaurants and even at home have become larger and larger. With the help of the Diet Plate, t... |
12 May 2009
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As a result of decades of studies, Mars' dichotomous landscape is now common knowledge for scientists. It is known, for instance, that the mountainous southern hemisphere rises some 6 km (3.73 miles) above the smooth northern one, and it's much thicker. This, together with the planet's peculiar magneti... |
17 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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A recent study performed by a team of geochemists from the UCLA managed to thwart the previously long-held conceptions of the experts, by showing that in fact, the tectonic motion of the Earth's plates began about a billion years before formerly believed. This also changes the envisioned image of a dry, barren a... |
27 November 2008
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We do not know if Superman will be around to save the situation, but by 2037, a megaquake could strike California. A new three-year analysis made by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC), and California Geological Survey shows the existence of a 99.7% chance that a quake with... |
16 April 2008
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Norwegian researchers have just found the oldest known chunk of Earth crust, located in Greenland, and aged at least 3.8 billion years. It is an ophiolite, an originally oceanic crust that was lifted and exposed within continental crust, that's why it's the best evidence yet that plates have been moving acr... |
23 March 2007
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