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- Oldest Water on Earth Found Deep Underground
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- Posted in:
ontd_science - Posted 1 day ago by
historicula
Charles Q. Choi, Oldest Water on Earth Found Deep Underground, LiveScience.com, 15 May 2013 (Photo at Source) -- A pocket of water some 2.6 billion years old — the most ancient pocket of water known by far, older even than the dawn of multicellular life — has now been discovered in a mine 2 miles below the Earth's surface. The finding, announced in the May 16 issue of the journal Nature,...
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- Mysterious poop foam causing explosions on hog farms
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- Posted in: ontd_science
- Posted 3 days ago by
fenris_lorsrai
Starting in about 2009, in the pits that capture manure under factory-scale hog farms, a gray, bubbly substance began appearing at the surface of the fecal soup. The problem is menacing: As manure breaks down, it emits toxic gases like hydrogen sulfide and flammable ones like methane, and trapping these noxious fumes under a layer of foam can lead to sudden, disastrous releases and even...
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- Earth at Night
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- Posted in: astronomy
- Posted 5 days ago by achan_hiarusa
I'm not sure if this community is active anymore, but does anyone know where I can get a large number of maps over a long period of time (years and years) of the Earth at night? All I can find are the latest pictures with a scattering of a few older ones because everyone is agog over the NASA/Google partnership using the Suomi satellite.
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- ISS Crew Lands Safely
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- Posted in: stellarvoyage
- Posted 1 week ago by stellarcafe
Space Station crew lands safely in Kazakhstan. Read More: ISS Crew Lands
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- Theoretical Question - Global Ecosystem Catastrophe
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- Posted in: _scientists_
- Posted 2 weeks ago by souldreamer
Quick disclaimer - this is for a sci-fi story that I'm writing. So, some suspension of disbelief is required. Here goes... Imagine that all of the living biological material (plants, animals, humans, bacteria, etc.) were vaporized over most of the Earth's Northern Hemisphere, leaving the Southern Hemisphere mostly intact. What kind of ramifications would that have? (As a note, I'm ...
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- Solar Plane
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- Posted in: stellarvoyage
- Posted 2 weeks ago by stellarcafe
Giant solar plane on cross-country flight across the US: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22414444
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- Russia in Color, A Century Ago
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- Posted in: ontd_science
- Posted 2 weeks ago by
Unknown Author, Russia in Color, A Century Ago, Boston.com, 20 August 2010 (Photos at Source) -- With images from southern and central Russia in the news lately due to extensive wildfires, I thought it would be interesting to look back in time with this extraordinary collection of color photographs taken between 1909 and 1912. In those years, photographer Sergei Mikhailovich...
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- Wu Tang Clan member GZA raps about the Big Bang- make respon …
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- Posted in: ontd_science
- Posted 3 weeks ago by fenris_lorsrai
Teachers in New York are using rap to teach complex science. PBS NewsHour senior correspondent Ray Suarez reports on the effectiveness of this strategy and interviews hip-hop legend GZA of the Wu-Tang Clan. In his upcoming solo album, "Dark Matter," Wu-Tang Clan's GZA raps about the Big Bang -- the moment that the sun, moon, stars, planets and all matter contained within sprung from chaos,...
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- Water Around Jupiter
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- Posted in: stellarvoyage
- Posted 4 weeks ago by stellarcafe
Astronomers have finally found direct proof that almost all water present in Jupiter's stratosphere, an intermediate atmospheric layer, was delivered by comet Shoemaker-Levy 9, which famously struck the planet in 1994. Read more: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2013-145
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- 3 new snail species discovered in Thailand
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- Posted in: ontd_science
- Posted 1 month ago by fenris_lorsrai
Researchers Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok and the Natural History Museum, London have discovered new snails in limestone hills in Thailand. The snails are from the brightly coloured carnivorous terrestrial snails family Streptaxidae. THe bright orange-colored Perrottetia dermapyrrhosa is pictured above and Perrottetia aquilonaria is pictured below. The snails are described as a "One...
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