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NASA’s Earth Observatory has a pair of satellite images illustrating the amount of flooding that has taken place in Pakistan. The first picture is from August 10th, 2010, while the second picture is from a year earlier, August 11th,
Good tidings and well-wishes! I hope that everyone had an enjoyable summer! Having finally returned from my long but entertaining pilgrimage to an internet-bereft region of the Adirondack mountains, I’ve managed to at long last acquire an [...]
Lois’ flower has died back, but the Cockrell Butterfly Center still has many amazing flowers blooming right now! Although not all as rare as the corpse flower, the rainforest in the butterfly center is made up of hundreds of hard-to-find tropical [...]
The government of Afghanistan reports that an oil field containing an estimated 1.8 billion barrels has been discovered in the Balkh and Shiberghan provinces of northern
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A Bellerophon percarinatus fossil of a Pennsylvanian Period snail. It was found in the Breathitt Group of Hazard, Kentucky. This creature existed in the Pennsylvanian Period.Thanks to Herb for letting me photograph this
Cement pumped into the top of BP’s well in the Gulf of Mexico is thought to have trapped up to 1000 barrels of oil. Now there are concerns that the well is unstable and plans for using the relief well to improve this situation are being [...]
Photos purported to show 'mystery animals' are always great fun. One of the most perplexing and curious of the lot was taken on a box Brownie camera near Goroke, western Victoria, Australia, in 1964. I'm referring, of course, to Rilla Martin's photo [...]
Quite clearly, the advent of web 2.0 does not pass without effects on how researchers communicate. But how do web 2.0 technologies impact scientific communication? To find out the British Research Information Network commissioned a study and [...]
The world seems to have finally discovered terror birds, the sometimes gigantic, extinct, flightless predatory birds that roamed South American landscapes for much of the last 60 million years. Of course we’ve known about them for more than a [...]