It Takes 1,000 Licks to Finish a Lollipop, Researchers Find

It Takes 1,000 Licks to Finish a Lollipop, Researchers Find

Study on dissolving and shrinking shows eating lollipops takes way more hark work than most people think

  • Nature
  • By Tudor Vieru
  • April 18th, 2014
Greenland Ice Sheet Covers 3-Million-Year-Old Landscapes

Greenland Ice Sheet Covers 3-Million-Year-Old Landscapes

These habitats have been frozen in time long ago, and perfectly preserved

Bones of Medieval Monk Found Sticking Out of Cliff Face in Wales

Bones of Medieval Monk Found Sticking Out of Cliff Face in Wales

Mandy Ewington saw the legs of a 800-year-old monk poking out of a cliff

  • Nature
  • By Tudor Vieru
  • January 27th, 2014
Grand Canyon Finished Forming Just 6 Million Years Ago

Grand Canyon Finished Forming Just 6 Million Years Ago

Study sheds new light on how this landscape feature evolved

  • Oddiverse
  • By Alexandra Botezatu
  • December 20th, 2013
Extreme Highwire Cross Finds Adrenaline Seekers 210ft (64m) Above the Ocean

Extreme Highwire Cross Finds Adrenaline Seekers 210ft (64m) Above the Ocean

Hundreds of climbers adventure every year to Tasmania's Totem Pole

  • Space
  • By Tudor Vieru
  • July 21st, 2012
Mystery: Titan's Rivers Did Not Erode the Landscape

Mystery: Titan's Rivers Did Not Erode the Landscape

Geologists say that there only two possible explanations for this

  • Nature
  • By Tudor Vieru
  • January 6th, 2012
Analyzing the Most Stable Core of the American Continent

Analyzing the Most Stable Core of the American Continent

This craton has been around for billions of years

  • Nature
  • By Tudor Vieru
  • December 29th, 2011
New Island Raises Like Venus from the Red Sea

New Island Raises Like Venus from the Red Sea

A volcanic eruption created the new land only this land

Bigach Crater Heavily Modified by Natural Processes

Bigach Crater Heavily Modified by Natural Processes

Its origins become apparent in this new space photo

  • Nature
  • By Tudor Vieru
  • December 6th, 2010
How Gorges Appeared in the Swiss Alps

How Gorges Appeared in the Swiss Alps

  • Nature
  • By Tudor Vieru
  • September 15th, 2010
Vertical Mountain Movement Seen Live

Vertical Mountain Movement Seen Live

  • Nature
  • By Tudor Vieru
  • July 31st, 2010
Why Continental Faults Trigger Earthquakes

Why Continental Faults Trigger Earthquakes

When they do not sit atop tectonic plate boundaries

  • Nature
  • By Tudor Vieru
  • December 15th, 2009
'Triple Whammy' Erodes Alaskan Coasts

'Triple Whammy' Erodes Alaskan Coasts

Time-lapse photos show the devastation

  • Sci Pry
  • By Tudor Vieru
  • November 25th, 2009
Virtual Stream to Help the Restoration of Real Ones

Virtual Stream to Help the Restoration of Real Ones

UM researchers were behind the study

  • Space
  • By Tudor Vieru
  • November 7th, 2009
Chaotic Mars Terrain Identified in New Images

Chaotic Mars Terrain Identified in New Images

They were snapped by an ESA probe

  • Nature
  • By Tudor Vieru
  • February 19th, 2009
Erosion Acts Twice as Fast in Alaska

Erosion Acts Twice as Fast in Alaska

It has doubled in five years

 
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