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Tuesday, 25 April 2017
Der Travertin von Karlsbad
Why Science Matters: March For Science 2017
How Long Do Butterflies Live? New Data From The Butterfly Center Gives Us Some Answers
How long do butterflies live? It is one of the questions we get most frequently in the Cockrell Butterfly Center, and our replies vary. We may say an average of two weeks, which was the accepted standard based [...]Strong earthquake widely filmed in Chile
A swarm of magnitude ~5-6 earthquakes offshore Chile on April 23 was punctuated two days later by a much larger M6.9 earthquake yesterday evening. While nobody could have specifically predicted the size and [...]Penguin Poop and Volcanic Ash: A Tale from Deception Island
In celebration of World Penguin Day (April 25), let’s review a recent research paper on three exciting topics: penguins, poop, and volcanoes! A new paper by Dr. Stephen Roberts and colleagues reported a [...]Okeanos Follow-up: Giant Sea-Spiders EAT! Cnidarians, Anemones, Hydroids & Corals! oh my!
Women, Peace and Security Program Team Travels to Mozambique
Researchers from the Women, Peace and Security team believe that by learning about women’s everyday peace and security in the country, as well as women’s involvement in peacebuilding processes in [...]Flechten aus dem Bernsteinwald
Ein Forscherteam der Universitäten Göttingen und Helsinki hat 152 neue fossile Flechten in Bernsteinen entdeckt und analysiert. Die Fossilien sind zwischen 24 und 47 Millionen Jahre alt und stammen [...]Manam: Erhöhung der Warnstufe
Der Vulkan Manam in Papua Neuguinea ist in den letzten Tagen aktiv geworden. Bewohner der Vulkaninsel berichten von kleineren (strombolianischen?) Eruptionen und rumpelnden Geräuschen. Der Alarmstatus wurde [...]US starts it's attack on Canada
New atlas provides highest resolution imagery of the Polar Regions seafloor
The 2015 Gorkha earthquake in Nepal: two years on
On the second anniversary of the 2015 Gorkha earthquake, a recent paper compares the landslide distributions for the Nepal and China earthquakes. The results have profound implications for the understanding [...]At the Assembly 2017: Tuesday Highlights
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Welcome back to the second day of the 2017 General Assembly! Today is packed full of excellent sessions, and this list of highlights is by no means comprehensive! Make sure you complement this information with [...]
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I have been super fortunate to meet some amazing girls (56 to be exact and their teachers) from the STEM Magnet Academy of Pointe Coupee just outside Baton [...]Carbonate Essentials Webinar - Day 1
From the Road: Some Nice Gneiss
Charla sobre los dinosaurios saurópodos en el Museo
Hidden Figures, by Margot Lee Shetterly
I haven’t yet seen the blockbuster movie Hidden Figures, but I’ve heard great things about it. This post is about the book it’s based on, also called Hidden Figures, by Margot Lee Shetterly. It [...]Toronto housing market is one big Ponzi scheme
Reference Still a couple months to go before we can officially call it a crash. That timing is totally dependent on desperate sellers, and how long they can hold out. Still no listings in the [...]Astronomen-Team findet Himmelskörper mit „Schmauchspuren“
Viele massereiche Sterne verglühen am Ende ihres Lebens als so genannte Supernova; sie leuchten dabei kurzzeitig so hell wie eine ganze Galaxie. Ein internationales Astronomen-Team hat einen Stern entdeckt, [...]Explore the Exhibition at EGU 2017!
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Don’t forget to visit the Exhibition at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly! Exhibition booths for companies, publishers, scientific societies and many more are scattered throughout the [...]
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Not the K-T revisited
Was there an Ice-age Comet? HERE is a review about speculation concerning the cause of the Younger Dryas - a cold period 1,500 years long, about 12,000 years ago. In this period many of the larger mammalian [...]Chile: Erdbeben M 6,7
Heute Nacht ereignete sich das bislang schwerste Erdbeben einer Serie, die bereits am Wochenende begann: im chilenischen Valparaíso bebte die Erde mit einer Magnitude von 6,7 (EMSC). Laut USGS hatte es [...]Deutsche Rohstoff erhält 1,5 Mio. zusätzliche Almonty-Aktien und verlängert die Laufzeit einer Wandelschuldverschreibung
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Magnetizing – Sun, Apr 23
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