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Reliable sources claim that Apple is preparing the first Snow Leopard pre-release builds to be seeded to developers. These copies are the first to be handed to a “limited” / select number of developers since the initial build issued at Apple's WWDC in June, this year.AppleInsider cites people familia... |
1 October 2008
03:29 GMT |
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By analyzing the red planet's clouds, Phoenix Mars Lander has found that there's snow falling from them. The data collected from the soil samples gathered by the craft showed that there is an obvious interaction between water in liquid form and minerals, just like on Earth.The laser device that is specially... |
30 September 2008
02:57 GMT |
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1. In the extreme north of the Fennoscandian peninsula, the Saami (Lapps), a shepherd population that still follows an ancestral way of life, live, despite the tough clime of their homeland. Most of the Lapps actually live over the Polar Circle, but these people developed a culture adapted to the subpolar climate, ba... |
18 February 2008
16:36 GMT |
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Waiting for Rudolph to bring you Santa Claus with the presents? Well, here is some data about this amazing Ice Age deer. 1.Reindeer are believed to have appeared during the last glaciation, 15,000 years ago. Their roots seem to be in South America. 5 million years ago, South America and North America got united throu... |
15 December 2007
06:50 GMT |
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The people over at the Mountain View based company are probably undecided whether to release the theme for iGoogle or just tease us with it. Brinke Guthrie found this morning that he was able to see a new holiday theme, but since that moment he has found it to be missing again. Sort of "now you see it, now you don�... |
12 December 2007
15:41 GMT |
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We are more used to see beasts like horse, donkey, mule, cattle, buffalo, camels, llama, yak, or elephant being used as working animals. At least in the documentaries. But in the 19th century Europe, dog traction was a popular mini-version of horse traction. Usually, dogs were harnessed to a two wheel (rarely four wh... |
10 December 2007
08:54 GMT |
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Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle all the way/ Oh, what fun it is to have a Spring iGoogle Theme, instead of a winter one this time of year! Um, yes, it might not rhyme, but it's a lot closer to the way my Google holiday mood is getting at. Annoyance at its finest hour. Why, why would you consider launching a w... |
10 December 2007
04:49 GMT |
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When you hear about hibernation, you instantly think about the northern snowed plains and marmots, ground squirrels and hedgehogs. But in the generally snowless Australia, its highest mountains are the 'home' of the only hibernating marsupials. The mountain pygmy possum (Burramys parvus) was first discovere... |
30 October 2007
06:16 GMT |
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It lacks only hair. As for the rest, it looks like it died yesterday. The recent finding in May 2007 of a baby mammoth preserved in the Russian permafrost offers the best chance so far to build a genetic map of the Ice Age extinct species."It's a lovely little baby mammoth indeed, found in perfect condition," sa... |
12 July 2007
04:27 GMT |
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This year it snowed orange in Siberia. But contamination can give many colors to snow, which is anything but white in many places. Now a team at UC Irvine has signaled that dirty snow can be responsible for over 35 % of the Arctic meltdown, besides global warming induced by greenhouse gases.Snow gets dirty due to so... |
8 June 2007
06:27 GMT |
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In small amounts, ice is just a solid, brittle, crystalline material; but when an ice layer surpasses 60-100 m (200-330 ft), the under part behaves like a plastic material, engaged in a slow flow so that the whole ice mass spreads over an extended area or displaces on a slope. For a glacier to appear, the snowfall fr... |
30 May 2007
08:40 GMT |
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At the current global warming rate, 30% of the world's highest glaciers will be gone by 2050 and by 2090, 50% will be history. The melting of Tibet's massive glaciers will have a deep impact on south and southeastern Asia, but for the people inhabiting the region this remains a vague concept. Even at the co... |
5 March 2007
06:55 GMT |
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