Tag: geophysics

The Yellowstone super volcano, which basically outlines the whole Yellowstone National Park, is part of one of the most active ...

The human brain is wired to see all kinds of patterns in various shapes. The most common one is that ...

Scientists from China, US and Mexico have used light detection and ranging laser altimetry (LiDAR)  to study how an earthquake can change ...

  Jupiter's moon Europa. (c) Michael Benson / Kinetikon Pictures / Corbis Yesterday, NASA held a ...

Yellowstone is without a doubt one of the most fascinating places on the face of the planet. But it doesn't ...

It's been quite a while since we published anything about the Cassini mission, but that doesn't mean it hasn't been ...

We probably all know (especially thanks to the abundancy of TV series) what Crime Scene Investigators (CSI) are. Probably not ...

The geek inside was nagging me for quite a while to make a category like this. So, starting today, every ...

The next step in prospecting and mining has always been a subject of speculation and theories, ever since the days ...

Storm elves and sprites are electric luminous fleeting phenomena that sometimes naturally occur in the upper atmosphere. A team of ...

There are many things we have yet to find out about Saturn, but the Cassini probe has definitely shed some ...

If a gate to hell existed, I bet this is how it would look like. Locals from the town of ...

Scientists have for the first time determined the actual permeability of the asthenosphere in Earth's upper mantle, which is basically ...

Boy 2009 passed quite quickly, but it didn't go without a blast, that's for sure ! I'm gonna show you ...

Evolution isn't just for living organisms, as scientists the Carnegie Institution found. They found that more than 3000 of the ...