The Italian name for the caldera – Campi Flegrei, or “burning fields”— is apt. The 7.5-mile-wide cauldron is the collapsed top of an ancient volcano, formed when the magma within finally blew.
129762_web Even with the naked eye the amount of light captured by the ‘mini-factories’ is visible, lit up bright red. The ‘veins’ through the leaves are the thin channels through which liquid can be pumped.
One year ago, tech entrepreneur Elon Musk and his rocket company, SpaceX, pulled off an incredible feat of spaceflight history. That’s when – on December 21, 2015 – SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket, dropped off a satellite in space, and then landed …
Businesses, markets and innovation can reduce emissions of gases that warm the planet. And they can do this while generating profits, creating jobs and growing the economy.
Intelligent alien life is not likely behind the dimming of the star KIC 8462852. Mathematical models suggest the erratic dips in the star’s brightness are due to something intrinsic.
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Researchers at Indiana University have developed a new tool that shows how fake news and unverified stories spread through social media.
Images taken by ESA’s Swarm satellites confirm that a jet stream of hot liquid iron part exists at Earth’s core, some 1,870 miles beneath the land surface.
It’s time to stir the soup. Photo by NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/Red circle by Amanda Kooser/CNET. More odd Mars. Suspended ‘spoon’ spotted on Mars · UFO fanatics spot ancient god on Mars.
New York, Dec 22 (IANS) After a trapdoor spider, a speckled freshwater darter (fish), a parasitic hairworm and an extinct lizard, outgoing US President Barack Obama now has a new species on his name: a coral-reef fish.
It’s the most wonderful time of the year for people on Earth and astronauts on the International Space Station. While astronauts floating 250 miles above Earth in the Space Station won’t be able to come back home for a holiday visit, they will still …
The new personnel would focus on commercial space issues at the behest of Peter Thiel, the billionaire investor who supported Trump during the campaign and is now advising the incoming president, out of concerns that the current landing team was too …
Would you have sex with a robot? Would you marry one? Would a robot have the right to say no to such a union? These were just a few of the questions being asked at the second Love and Sex with Robots conference hastily rearranged at Goldsmiths …
For the second straight day, the Alaska Volcano Observatory issued its highest alert level for aviation when a volcano erupted with a towering ash cloud in the Aleutian Islands.
This may be the only video ever of a live “ghost shark” in the wild. It looks like what you’d expect if Oogie Boogie from The Nightmare Before Christmas went swimming.
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China launched a satellite to monitor its greenhouse gas emissions early on Thursday, the latest step in efforts to cut its carbon footprint, the official Xinhua news agency said.
The Mariana Trench, a massive rift stretching from Japan to Australia, contains the deepest sections of the world’s oceans. Despite decades of research and even manned missions to the bottom of the trench, researchers are still discovering new species …
The count is held each year around Christmas. COURTESY IMAGE The count is held each year around Christmas. COURTESY IMAGE A partridge in a pear tree, two turtledoves and three French hens have little to do with the National Audubon Society’s …
Going to the Moon is officially hip again, thanks in no small part to Google, which is offering $20 million to the first private company that can land on our nearest neighbor, roll around a bit, and beam images back to Earth.
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