FAIRBANKS, Alaska, April 1 (UPI) – The U.S. space agency says the most extensive research project ever conducted to investigate the Arctic’s lower atmosphere begins this week.
The three-week mission is designed to help scientists identify how air pollution contributes to climate changes in the Arctic. Read the rest of this entry »
The black holes have created endless stories, as they were known to be enormous regions so powerful that nothing can ever escape them, not even light. NASA scientists managed to find this time a “baby” hole, the smallest discovered to date, lighter than other black wholes known so far. The announcement was made on March 31 by NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center’s Nikolai Shaposhnikov and Lev Titarchuck, who initially discovered it. Read the rest of this entry »
A growing movement says yes.
The early conservation movement in the 1800s focused on landmarks: extraordinary places like Yellowstone and Yosemite, areas full of geologic interest to be sure, but also teeming with wildlife and plant communities. Since then, governments have advanced in conserving endangered species and safeguarding the habitats that support them. But as the public has fallen in love with the whales and the bison, its concern for the landscape has stayed at the level of geography, not geology. Read the rest of this entry »
Early civilization used hand, heart, arrow symbols to represent distances
By Clara Moskowitz – LiveScience
Long known for their cool circular calendars and practice of human sacrifice, Aztecs were also math whizzes.
Aztecs used hand, heart and arrow symbols to represent fractional distances when calculating areas of land, scientists have discovered. The researchers pored over Aztec agricultural manuscripts trying to understand how the indigenous people arrived at area calculations. Only when they factored in the pictorial glyphs did the figures make sense. Read the rest of this entry »
ScienceDaily (Mar. 31, 2008) — Evidence of the biggest meteorite ever to hit the British Isles has been found by scientists from the University of Oxford and the University of Aberdeen. The scientists believe that a large meteorite hit northwest Scotland about 1.2 billion years ago near the Scottish town of Ullapool. Read the rest of this entry »
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