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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Can you imagine life today without the lemon and orange juice? Europeans and Arabs brought the citrus fruits during the Middle Age from the Far East and India, that's why it was believed for a long time that South/Southeastern Asia is the place of origin for these fruits. But a new research made at the Center fo... |
2 October 2007
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Ancient civilizations thought the Earth was flat and carried on the back of giant turtles...But Aristotle and other ancient Greek scholars came up with the idea that Earth was round. "This was based on a number of observations, such as the fact that departing ships not only appeared smaller as they sailed away but al... |
12 April 2007
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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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The Andes are the backbone of South America, a symbol were the greatest civilization in the New World emerged, namely the Inca Empire. Now a team of Australian geophysicists believe they might have solved the long-standing puzzle of how the Andes mountain range emerged. By making the first 3D simulations of the way c... |
15 March 2007
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During the antiquity, people attributed to the volcanoes a supernatural personality, which was worshiped. Now, researchers just focus on achieving the right methods of preventing the volcanic eruptions and decreasing the damages they inflict.Under the terrestrial crust, the rocks are under molten stage, forming the m... |
8 March 2007
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A new Yale-Cambridge research reveals how ice sheets sometimes interlace when they shock, rather than overriding each other; researches assesses the implications of these phenomenon for other phenomena, from plate tectonics of the Earth's surface to the development of self-assembling nanostructures. "A surprisin... |
3 March 2007
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