A massive project involving the building process of the world's greatest neutrino telescope is currently under development far to the southern pole, in Antarctica. A bold group of experts from the University of Delaware are facing the blistering cold deep underneath the snowy surface in an attempt to have the de... |
10 December 2008
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The fatidic date of December 21, 2012 was linked by many to the drastic decrease in strength of our planet's magnetic field and to the complete reversal of its poles. This would leave Earth undefended against solar radiation, as well as force our satellites down from their orbit, wrecking the GPS system, further... |
6 October 2008
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Our grandchildren won't get to see polar bears, at least not in the wild. In the summer of 2007, the Arctic ice surface was about 30% under the long-term average level, a record of all times. Some studies forecast ice-free Arctic summers by 2040; some say that we could even get to see it happening this year. "Th... |
30 April 2008
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The centrifugal force generated by the spin of our planet would push us to the space if another force, gravity, would lack. Because the Earth is spherical, the interaction of the both forces varies as we move further away along the terrestrial ax. The centrifugal force is minimal in the polar areas and maximal on the... |
15 April 2008
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You got the point, apparently the Earth has more than one North Pole! I'll put it like this: the North Pole can be anywhere you want it to be. It could be in Alaska, in the town called 'North Pole' for what I'm concerned, but then we would be deviating away from the story. For starters, there is t... |
29 February 2008
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While analyzing 2004 satellite images of the poles above the Antarctic, researchers stumbled upon a new type of aurora. Better known are the conventional aurora borealis in the Arctic and aurora australis in the Antarctic, appearing like curtains of brightly colored light in the polar atmosphere. The light is emitted... |
8 November 2007
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Russian hunger for land and oil has not ended and now they back their claim on the North Pole with rock samples taken last month from the floor of the Arctic Ocean at the site of the North Pole, as announced by the Russian government. Stone analysis has revealed that the Lomonosov Ridge, a submarine structure spreadi... |
24 September 2007
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It all happened in the Sedgemoor District of Somerset. Letters have been sent out to people to try and make them vote. The thing about this is that a site has been created so that citizens can vote online. Since a lot of people are too busy to get out of their houses to vote, this new service comes in handy. They vot... |
31 August 2007
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In the Equatorial Pacific, between 90 and 91o V, and 1o 29' S, 968 km (605 mi) off western South American shore, at the same level with the Ecuador, to which it belongs, there's the the volcanic archipelago of Galapagos. It is formed by 18 greater islands (the largest being Isabella, 4290 square km, followe... |
28 July 2007
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Mars has two permanent polar ice caps, the largest one being at the South Pole, much like those found at the poles on Earth. However, liquid water does not exist on the surface, but large quantities of water are thought to be trapped underneath Mars' thick cryosphere, only to be released when the crust is cracke... |
13 July 2007
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Pole dancing is associated just with sexuality and striptease clubs, but imagine that after a long night of teasing, strutting and gyrating, the 650 muscles employed to do this will soar like after a hard fitness training. This fortifies them all, from abdominals to thighs and arms. After years of being confined to d... |
10 May 2007
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