Russia believes Phobos mission will bring them in back in the spatial spotlight
In these past few decades, the US space program seemed to have significantly overcome the Russian one, with all sort ...
Tag: Geology
GeoPicture of the week – The Wave, Arizona
The geek inside was nagging me for quite a while to make a category like this. So, starting today, every ...
Insects trapped in amber offer a precious glimpse on prehistoric bugs
Amber is not very common, but you can't say it's really uncommon either. Bugs in amber - that's rare, but ...
Meet the horniest dinosaur ever
Fossil hunters have recently unearthed the fossil remains of a species that can easily claim the title of the horniest ...
The ‘hottest’ 7 … hot springs
The idea for this article hit me while I was writing this post about awesome landscapes. I was doing some ...
8 surreal natural landscapes
The Wave, Arizona Photo by Lobineau. The Wave is an astonishing sandstone formation that fascinates photographers ...
The big picture on Icelandic eruption
Eyjafjallajökull (how ever you pronounce) is a volcano located in Iceland, covered by a small glacier with the same name. ...
The biggest tsunami ever recorded was taller than 500 meters
On the night of July 9, 1958, an earthquake struck Fairweather Fault in the Alaska Panhandle. The result was that ...
Saturn’s moon full of geysers
There are many things we have yet to find out about Saturn, but the Cassini probe has definitely shed some ...
Hell’s gate
If a gate to hell existed, I bet this is how it would look like. Locals from the town of ...
Melt rises up 25 times faster than previously believed
Scientists have for the first time determined the actual permeability of the asthenosphere in Earth's upper mantle, which is basically ...
4 hottest volcano events of 2009
Boy 2009 passed quite quickly, but it didn't go without a blast, that's for sure ! I'm gonna show you ...
The main types of quartz — in beautiful pictures
Quartz is a hard mineral consisting of silicon and oxygen. It's one of the most common minerals in the Earth's ...
Rift in African desert will become ocean
In 2005, a huge 35 mile rift broke the Ethiopian desert apart and immediately led to geological claims that a ...
Israel, in danger of being hit by tsunamis
Dr. Beverly Goodman of the Leon H. Charney School of Marine Sciences at the University of Haifa was doing some ...
Danube delta holds answers to ‘Noah’s flood’ debate
It seems science and creationism are just taking sides and throwing rocks at each other; recently, they've taken things to ...
Mineral Kingdom Co-evolved With Life
Evolution isn't just for living organisms, as scientists the Carnegie Institution found. They found that more than 3000 of the ...
Opals on Mars hint at planet’s wet past
As a proud student in geophysics, I can tell you that opal is hydrated silicon ...
Report shows California has 99% chances of big earthquake in 30 years
I'm not fond of alarmist theories or "bad things are happening, fast" attitude, but... bad things are just ...