Called “The Great Unconformity”, the Grand Canyon has a 1.2 billion year gap in the rock record. Above the gap is 500 million-year-old sandstone (Cambrian age), a time of billions of shelled marine creatures. Below the gap is metamorphic rock of the Slatherian period aged 1.75 billion years where no fossils exist at all. But…
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Archaeologists resume hunt where two thousand year old computing device (Antikythera Mechanism) was found in 1901
Expert says junk military ordnance in the Gulf of Mexico poses threat to shipping channels
Oceanographers at Texas A&M University have warned that the millions of pounds of unexploded bombs scattered throughout the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, pose serious threats to the shipping lanes that run through those regions. Discarded military ordnance, including one thousand pound bombs the size of file cabinets and chemical weapons…
Gravity Probe B gyroscope, holder of world record for roundest object ever manufactured, can spin for 15,000 years
Gravity Probe B is a satellite-based, relativity gyroscope experiment that launched in 2004 for the purpose of measuring the space-time curvature near Earth in order to test Einstein’s theory of general relativity. The experiment was to check, very precisely, tiny changes in the spin and angle of four gyroscopes contained in a highly sophisticated housing…
Brightest comet (ISON C/2012 S1) in over a century is heading our way (but will probably not hit Earth) [UPDATE]
Russian astronomers have discovered a comet, named C/2012 S1, which is heading our way. It is scheduled to fly by Earth in December 2013. It is expected to be the brightest visitor to our solar system in over a century. Astronomers believe the comet will be considerably brighter than Halley’s Comet (1986) and Hale-Bopp (1997)…
Periodic table moves closer to completion – if element 113 has been discovered as expected
570-Megapixel Dark Energy Camera aims to figure out the mysterious dark energy that fills our universe
MESMERIZING VIDEO – watch 32 out-of-sync metronomes magically synchronize themselves
If you place two metronomes on a stationary board and start them out of sync, they will remain out of sync forever. But if the board is placed on two rollers, so that the movement of the metronomes can be transferred through the moveable board, each metronome’s movement will affect the movement of the other…
NASA Curiosity Rover finds evidence of ancient flowing streams on Mars – UPDATED PICTURES
NASA announced today (on the evening of Sol 51), that Curiosity Rover has found evidence of an ancient flowing stream on Mars at a few sites. Round-shaped rocks, called clasts, have lead Geologists to the conclusion that they have been moved about by water. The clasts are too heavy to have been moved by wind.
Unusual April 2012 Indonesian Earthquake may have broken tectonic plate and created new plate boundary
The April 11, 2012 series of Earthquakes in Indonesia may have been a bigger event than originally thought – they may have broken the tectonic plate. The largest of the quakes was a magnitude 8.7 offshore quake that produced stronger ground-shaking than any earthquake in history. Scientists found it odd that it triggered several earthquakes…








