October 1792 the crew of the “H.M.S. Discovery“, surveying the western coasts of the American continent, spotted a mountain and named it after the British diplomat Alleyne FitzHerbert, 1st Baron St. Helens (1753-1839). The true origin of Mount St. Helens was revealed to the naturalists only in 1835, when a minor eruption revealed its volcanic
Los seguidores de Aragosaurus recordarán como hace unos meses publicamos una nota sobre una inundación que había afectado unas cuevas con neandertales del Pleistoceno Superior de Guadalajara. Acaba de [...]
A very strange story happened in OC California some days ago (thanks @EricFielding for pointing me to that). A woman suffered serious burns because some rocks her kids found at a beach combusted spontaneously [...]
En el ABC online se puede leer esto hoy literalmente:Subastarán en Nueva York esqueleto del pariente asiático del Tiranosaurio Rex17-05-2012 / 20:30 h EFEEl esqueleto de un ejemplar de tiranosaurio "bataar", [...]
Today, the Indian woman prides herself with a global acknowledgement of her beauty, contributed to prominently, by her sharp features, and her overtly feminine appeal. She possesses a never-ending urge to look [...]
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We used inexact adders to process images and found that relative errors up to 0.54 percent were almost indiscernible, and relative errors as high as 7.5 percent still produced discernible images.
Christian [...]
La sección de joyería de la Escola Massana de Barcelona junto con la Escuela de Arte de Zaragoza organizan las VI Jornadas Talleres de Joyería y Naturaleza en la localidad oscense de Serraduy, del 28 de [...]
In times of dodgy media, it’s wonderful to see a site that does simple, straightforward fact-checking of politician’s comments. I’ve been visiting Politifact for years now, and you should [...]
“Potentially hazardous asteroids, or PHAs, are a subset of the larger group of near-Earth asteroids. The PHAs have the closest orbits to Earth’s, coming within five million miles, and they are big [...]
The American Copper Council is holding its annual meeting at the Biltmore Hotel in Phoenix this week. The American Copper Council is a "
not-for-profit trade association representing all segments of the [...]
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"If earthquakes are caused by fracking, then were those earthquakes in the 1800's preemptive earthquakes because they knew fracking was coming? It's a silly comparison," says Ragan Dickens [...]
Grouting work done earlier in the week was a possible cause of a bulge in the lining of a train tunnel under the River Thames. Two trains hit the bulge before the line was closed, but neither train derailed. [...]
As James has previously reminded us, Italy has traditionally exerted a strong influence on Scottish cuisine. Cajun chicken and red pepper panini: Ham, cheese and pickle panini: Cappuccino: [...]
I am home from a reconnaissance trip checking out the route of a proposed July 21-27 trip with the AAPG (although anyone is invited to join us). I came across some nice new localities, and I thought I would [...]
Hoy día 18 de mayo se celebra el Día Internacional de los Museos. Es un día en que los museos, ya sean de arte, historia, ciencia, o berberechos, ofrecen algo especial. En muchos de ellos se podrá entrar [...]
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No es que sea un notición, porque resulta bastante habitual, pero así recoge Miguel Agost en El Periodico Mediterráneo y en el canal de televisión comarcal Comarquesnord el desarrollo de la campaña de [...]
As a companion piece to the Ophiomorpha nodosa burrows I posted last week, here is a partial claw from the arthropod that lived in the burrows. It's called Protocallinassa and was a ghost shrimp that lived on [...]
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David E. Fastovsky, University of Rhode Island Mesozoic, terrestrial vertebrate-bearing paleoenvironments, vertebrate paleontology 1. What first got you interested or involved in your research field? Roy [...]
“A plume of smoke stretched across the Bering Sea on May 11, 2012, just off of far eastern Russia. [...] The smoke may have arisen from wildfires in the region around Lake Baikal, where numerous [...]
Pubic meetings are scheduled next week on the proposed American West
Potash mine in the Holbrook basin of eastern Arizona. The St. Johns
meeting will be 6pm on Monday, May 21 at the Apache County Board [...]
A Matinha do do Campus do PICI, junto ao Açude Santo Anastácio.....Alunos e professores da Universidade Federal do Ceará encaminharam esclarecimentos à coluna Mercado e Negócios sobre o projeto de [...]
A couple of months ago, I complained about basement spiders, which are black, spindly, and lurk in the corners where I need to stick my hands.
A few days after I wrote that post, I complained to a coworker [...]
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La dinámica de la fosilización es el objeto de estudio de la Tafonomía, la cual a partir de lo observado en un fósil infiere los procesos que han llevado al organismo del que procede a fosilizar. [...]