Remnants of a large Chinese rocket are expected to streak through the atmosphere this weekend in an uncontrolled re-entry that Beijing says it is closely tracking but poses little risk to anyone on E… [+3452 chars]
Any movement beneath our feetfrom barely perceptible subsidence to the sudden appearance of a sinkhole or a crashing landslidespells big trouble. Even relatively modest subsidence can weaken building… [+5404 chars]
New research in biomechanics measures the impact of head-first, hand-first and feet-first diving and the likelihood of injury at different diving heights, providing data-driven recommendations for sa… [+4163 chars]
A textbook process called “Ostwald ripening,” named after the Nobel Prize-winning chemist Wilhelm Ostwald, has directed the design of new materials such as nanoparticles for decades. These are tiny m… [+3492 chars]
Located about 440 light-years from Earth, Zeta Ophiuchi is a hot star with a complicated past. The star is 20 times more massive than the Sun, likely being ejected from its birthplace by a powerful s… [+1821 chars]
I wrote this for the Lifestyles 55+ magazine I contribute to each month in Winnipeg for their August edition, but I hope it will be of some interest to readers in our catchment area. I don’t usually … [+3662 chars]
Today, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria re-launched its plant biodiversity website, VicFlora. The new portal features upgrades that allow users to identify Victoria's plants more easily. It is based on… [+3581 chars]
For palaeontologists this is a discovery far better than striking gold: miners working in The Yukon in northwestern Canada have uncovered a frozen baby mammoth while excavating permafrost. The anima… [+1840 chars]
<li>Gatesy, S. M. in Functional Morphology in Vertebrate Paleontology (ed. Thomason, J. J.) 219234 (Cambridge University Press, 1995). </li><li>Hutchinson, J. R. The evolution of pelvic osteology an… [+21642 chars]
The Gale Crater was chosen as Curiosity’s landing site due to the likelihood that it once held liquid water and, indeed, the rover found evidence that confirmed it was actually a lake as recently as … [+2257 chars]
An enzyme that combats the greenhouse gas nitrous oxide (N2O) may one day give scientists a potent new tool for reducing the amount of the gas in the atmosphere thanks in part to new findings publish… [+2771 chars]
Extreme rainfall as a driver of volcanic hazards. (a) Pleistocene volcanic sector collapses of Volcán de Colima, Nevado de Toluca, Citlaltépetl and Cofre de Perote (Mexico), reproduced after Capra et… [+4144 chars]
