Feb 13 Animated Map Plots One Year of Quakes Updated: Feb. 14| We recently stumbled on this animated map that plots 2011's biggest earthquakes.* Each circle represents an earthquake -- the bigger the circle, the greater the magnitude. The line across the circle indicates the quake's depth. Most notable… Continue reading
Feb 09 Russians Drill Into Ancient Lake in Coldest Spot on Earth After decades drilling through more than two miles of ice in the coldest spot on Earth, Russian scientists announced this week that they reached their goal: a subglacial lake the size of Lake Ontario, which has been sealed off… Continue reading
Feb 06 Hunter’s Moons: Astronomers Use Kepler Spacecraft to Search for Exomoons An artist's conception of an exoplanet hosting smaller moons. Image by David A. Aguilar/ CfA. Astronomers have discovered a trove of exoplanets--more than 700 worlds in orbit around distant stars, with leads on thousands of additional suspects. Continue reading
Feb 02 In Earthquakes, ‘Liquefied’ Ground Can Topple Buildings, Swallow Cars A suburban street is covered with silt forced out of the ground by liquefaction on February 24, 2011 after a 6.3 earthquake devastated the city of Christchurch two days earlier. Photo by AFP/Getty Images. On Wednesday's NewsHour… Continue reading
Feb 01 Watch ‘A Flintstone Moment’: Mammoth Amount of Ice Age Fossils Found in Colorado 'A Flintstone Moment': Mammoth Amount of Ice Age Fossils Found in Colorado… Continue watching
Feb 01 Watch What is Liquefaction? Paleontologist Kirk Johnson explains liquefaction… Continue watching
Jan 30 Experts Weigh in on Bird Flu Research Pigeons are seen eating on a street in Hong Kong on January 6, 2012. Photo by Aaron Tam/AFP/Getty Images. Earlier this month, the scientists who altered the H5N1 virus to create a more contagious strain that's transmissible between ferrets,… Continue reading
Jan 30 Electronic Tissue Monitors Brain, Heart and Muscles Scientists are trying to develop tissue-like electronics that conform better to human organs. Elastic electronics, they call it. John Rogers, professor of material science and engineering at the University of Illinois has developed a device that can… Continue reading
Jan 26 How Do You Spot a Black Hole? Look for Its ‘Burp’ EmbedVideo(2541, 482, 304); Last week, a team of astronomers met in Arizona to discuss ambitious plans to see the unseeable. Using data pulled from more than 75 ground-based telescopes and assembled by a supercomputer, their plan is… Continue reading
Jan 25 Is There a Big Relief Rally Under Way? By Paul Solman The European Central Bank's new headquarters, still under construction, right, are seen alongside other buildings within the city, across from the River Main in Frankfurt, Germany. Photo by Hannelore Foerster/Bloomberg via Getty Images. Some might be expecting comment on the… Continue reading