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Wednesday, 16 May 2018
By Jeff Cummins, Horticulturist at the Cockrell Butterfly Center in the Houston Museum of Natural Science The Cockrell Butterfly Center was graced (?) a couple of weeks ago by a very special event. One of our corpse flowers, Lou, bloomed for the very first time! Lou is an Amorphophallus peaeoniifolius, a smaller species
Heute Abend suchte ein Tornado die Stadt Viersen bei Mönchengladbach heim. Der Wirbelsturm richtete große Schäden an. 1 Mensch wurde von einem umstürzenden Baum schwer verletzt. Mehrere Personen wurden leicht verletzt. Zudem deckte der Tornado zahlreiche Dächer ab. In umliegenden Regionen gab es plötzliche Sturmböen, Starkregen und Hagel. Die Unwetter-Gefahr steigt aufgrund der viel zu ... Weiterlesen ...
Hoy ha dado comienzo la nueva campaña de excavación del Yacimiento Paleontológico de Somosaguas (¡¡¡y con esta ya van 20!!!).
Después de un fin de semana marcado por la bajada de las temperaturas, el [...]
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Seismic Characterization of Natural Fractures in the Buda Limestone of Zavala County, Texas A. Smirnov and C.L. Liner
The Buda Limestone [...]
Sebuah pertanyaan menggelitik dari Mas Hendar disini : Tapi kenapa Islam memilih penanggalan LUNAR ? Yang lebih menggelitik lagi adalah : Lunar itu penanggalan yang paling bagus untuk posisi geografis antara [...]
Watson Millison's degree in Sustainability Management has come in handy now that he's a member of the corporate sustainability team at JetBlue
A forthcoming study of northern India suggests that people living in rural areas are as likely to die prematurely from the effects of poor air quality as those living in
Evgeny Ches es un artista de Moscú (Rusia) que ha desarrollado un estilo alejado de los cánones del grafitti tradicional. Conocido como Ches, practica el denominado "chellograffiti", en el que se pinta [...]
The Pacific Northwest has this problem. It has two particular things in great abundance: trees and clouds. It also has volcanoes, but much of the time the first two obscure the latter. At Christmas I drove to [...]
This is the second post in the “bird neural canals are weird” series (intro post here), and it covers the first of five expansions of the spinal cord or meninges in the lumbosacral regions of birds. The [...]
Alaska’s oil and gas production tax has been subject to continuing debate and change as lawmakers and policymakers struggle with balancing budgets in times of volatile oil prices while also encouraging the [...]
Economist Glenn Hubbard explains why carbon pricing can appeal to people on both sides of the political
Ante todo, aclarar que aunque este blog lleva mi nombre asociado como sello de calidad, no he escrito la mayoría de los posts. No, los posts son obra en su mayoría de los miembros del Grupo de Biología [...]
Mapped trends in open surface water bodies in the contiguous US show that with climate change, dry regions will get drier, wet regions will get wetter.
The post Mapping Trends in Open Surface Water Bodies in [...]
Archaeopteryx Studies (Continued)
The question on everyone's lips - "was Archaeopteryx capable of flying" - has been answered positively; at least to the satisfaction of the authors of THIS PAPER.
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For the last 540 million years, Earth’s climate has oscillated between three basic states: Icehouse, Greenhouse (subdivided into Cool and Warm states), and Hothouse. The “Hothouse” condition is [...]
Santa Clara, Utah — Team Jurassic Utah had its first day in the field, and it was excellent. As you might recall from this blog, last month I visited southwestern Utah alone to scout out locations for this [...]
Update 22:00 Uhr: Vor wenigen Stunden ereignete sich ein Erdbeben Mw 4,2 unter dem Halema‘uma‘u-Krater. Man kann davon ausgehen, dass das Erdbeben weitere Steinschläge auslöste. Es kam allerdings zu [...]
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What does it take to get a scientific theory accepted? Hard facts? A strong personality? Grit and determination? For many Earth Scientists today it can be hard to imagine the academic landscape before the [...]
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