Japanese volcano calm 'for now': weather agency
Video grab from the Japan Meteorological Agency shows the eruption of Mount Shindake on Kuchinoerabu island in Kagoshima…
May 2015
Little-known quake, tsunami hazards lurk offshore of Southern California
This map shows the California Borderland and its major tectonic features, as well as the locations of earthq…
Dinosaurs were likely warm-blooded
A microscopic image of the thigh bone (femur) of a dinosaur shows concentric rings. Like tree rings, they formed each yea…
Using radar satellites to study Icelandic volcanoes and glaciers
On August 16 of last year, Mark Simons, a professor of geophysics at Caltech, landed in Reykjavik with 15 students and tw…
Satellites catch the birth of two volcanic islands
The birth of Sholan island. First image in 2010, last image in 2012. Credit: Jónsson et al., Nature Communications …
'Ultrarelativistic, killer electrons' made in 60 seconds
Earth's magnetosphere is depicted with the high-energy particles of the Van Allen radiation belts (shown in red) and…
Which came first the chicken or the egg?
From a modern scientific perspective, the chicken came first because the genetic recombination that produced the first…
From Chicken to Dinosaur the Reverse Evolution
A unique adaptation in the foot of birds is the presence of a thumb-like opposable toe, which allows them to grasp and p…
Common mechanism for shallow and deep earthquakes proposed
Geologists report that a universal sliding mechanism operates for earthquakes of all depths -- from the deep ones all t…
3D geological tour of the Guadalquivir basin using Google Earth
Distribution of thematic layers on a scale of 1:50,000 over the satellite images of Google Earth. Above shows the area l…
First dinosaur fossil discovered in Washington state
The first dinosaur fossil described from Washington state (left) is a portion of a femur leg bone (full illustration rig…
Huge underwater craters discovered on floor of Swiss lake
The scientists were using ship-based sonar to map the topography of the lake floor An unusual and unexpected …
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