Using single calcite crystals with varying surface roughness allows engineers to simplify the complex physics that describes fault movement. In a new study from the University of Illinois Urbana-Cham… [+3596 chars]
Zone 2 training has become a trendy term among fitness professionals in recent years, but what does it mean and what are the benefits? Zone 2 is one of five cardio heart rate zones (opens in new tab… [+8518 chars]
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Its cold and dim in the Solar Systems suburbs. Triton, the largest of Neptunes 14 known moons, gets 900 times less sunlight than Earth, and much of that light reflects off the icy worlds surface. Thi… [+1227 chars]
Photo credit: Twilight Zone Expedition Team 2007, NOAA-OE., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Sponges are outliers in biologys big bang, the Cambrian explosion. Their embryos appear in Precambri… [+8991 chars]
A popular stop-motion sheep is about to go from Mossy Bottom Farm to the moon. Shaun, the title character from the animated television series "Shaun the Sheep," has been assigned a space on NASA's A… [+3775 chars]
For a long time, our view of Ceres was fuzzy, according to a geoscientist. A dwarf planet and the largest body found in the asteroid belt, the region between Jupiter and Mars, speckled with hundreds … [+3885 chars]
As satellites crawl across the sky, they reflect light from the sun back down to Earth, especially during the first few hours after sunset and the first few hours before sunrise. As more companies la… [+6972 chars]
by Laura Herraiz Borreguero, Alberto Naveira Garabato and Jess Melbourne-Thomas, The ConversationWarmer waters are flowing towards the East Antarctic ice sheet, according to our alarming new research… [+4973 chars]
A recent discovery in the field of quantum physics by researchers at Purdue University has opened the doorway to a whole new way of looking at our physical reality. According to the researchers invo… [+4967 chars]
A solar storm from a hole in the sun is predicted to hit earth within hours. The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has classed the storm as a relatively minor G1, and said it… [+2014 chars]
A solar storm from a hole in the sun is predicted to hit earth within hours. The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has classed the storm as a relatively minor G1, and said it… [+2014 chars]
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