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Bergsturz am Tour Ronde, Mont Blanc Region (Video) 

Auch wenn die Alpen (und andere Berge) uns so majestätisch und ewig erscheinen mögen, der Zahn der zeit nagt unablässig an ihnen und versucht, selbst die höchsten berge langsam einzuebnen. Wenn man als [...]

Underground Lakes Hold Promise Of Discovery 

Some of the purest water on Earth is said to be held by lakes located hundreds of feet beneath Wind Cave National Park, according to the Associated Press. But far[...] The post Underground Lakes Hold Promise [...]

Permanentmagnete in einem Rutsch recyceln 

     Elektromotoren oder Windräder werden durch starke Permanentmagnete angetrieben. Die leistungsstärksten Exemplare basieren auf den Seltenen Erden Neodym und Dysprosium. Ein neues Verfahren von [...]

New York, New Orleans, Charlottetown and Everywhere Else 

I’m in Atlantic Canada giving a series of talks about Hurricane Sandy and what it did to New York (based on my book, Storm Surge). I’ve been talking about what happened in New York, hearing from people [...]

PhD Research Fellowship in Paleobiology/Paleontology in Oslo 

PhD Research Fellowship in Paleobiology/PaleontologyA 4-year PhD position (SKO 1017) is available at the Natural History Museum (NHM), University of Oslo.The Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, is the [...]

Nuevas evidencias de leopardos en el Pleistoceno superior de Valencia 

El año pasado para estas fechas os comentamos la noticia de un hallazgo excepcional. El esqueleto de un leopardo fósil completo hallado en una cavidad valenciana (Avenc de Joan Guitón). Ahora tenemos el [...]

Spinophorosaurus tenía una cola muy especial 

Hoy se acaba de presentar en la  63ª edición del "Symposium of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Comparative Anatomy" o SVPCA en Southampton el análisis biomecánico a partir de un modelo [...]

Oo'-tin (Bower Cave) in the Sierra Nevada: Caverns, Lost Pictures, Dances, and the Origin Place of Humans (maybe) 

The middle parts of the Sierra Nevada are kind of the great unknown of the Sierra Nevada (at least to me, but I suspect many others, too). It's not that the region between the mostly alpine national parks and [...]

September 1, 2015 

Greenland Campaign Takes Flight to Measure Ice SheetNASA 3D Maps Illustrate Formation of the Hangai Dome, Central MongoliaAGU Blogosphere Coal Consumption in India Outpaces Domestic ProductionEnergy [...]

NASA landslide video visualizing rainfall-induced mass movements between 2007 and 2015 

The new NASA landslide video visualizes global rainfall-induced landslides between 2007 and

Permian Period Limnoscelis 

Here are some pictures of a reptile like amphibian that lived during the Permian Period. It is from the mobile phone game Jurassic World. The creature is a Limnoscelis. It is thought to be a carnivore and [...]

New open access journal to publish entire research cycles 

Say hello to Research Ideas & Outcomes (RIO), a new open access journal, formally open for business today! The new journal represents a useful addition to traditional publishing, in that it [...]

Died This Day: Luis Alvarez 

Alvarez (June 13, 1911 - Sept. 1, 1988) was an American experimental physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1968 for work that included the discovery of many resonance particles --subatomic [...]

Heimische Bodenschätze wieder neu entdecken: Verbundprojekt „ResErVar“ gestartet 

     Welche Rohstoffe schlummern noch in Deutschlands Untergrund? Eine Antwort auf diese Frage fällt schwer, weil genaue Daten über das Potenzial vor allem von Hochtechnologie-Metallen fehlen. Seit [...]

High water tables can be a boon to crop yields 

High water tables can be a bane to crop yields, compelling many farmers to drain their fields so their crops don’t drown when it rains. But a high water table may not always be a bad thing. A new study [...]

Harperman 

I just love this song.  I tend to think that the government should get out of hiring scientists as civil servants, then that guy wouldn't be suspended.  :)  He wouldn't exist.  I just think gov't science [...]

Senior Research Scientist - Vertebrate evolutionary biology 

The Australian National Wildlife Collection (ANWC) within National Research Collections Australia comprises staff and collections resources such as traditional research collections, cryofrozen tissues, [...]

“Georischi, li (ri)conosco, mi difendo” - I Geologi nelle piazza d'Italia domenica 6 settembre 2015 

Domenica prossima in una località di ogni Regione italiana, il Consiglio Nazionale dei Geologi e gli Ordini regionali dei Geologi scenderanno (finalmente) in piazza per pubblicizzare l'attività dei geologi e [...]

Chesapectin jeffersonius pelecypod from the Yorktown formation of Virginia 

I acquired this shell at a rock/fossil/mineral show this past spring from someone who collected it themselves. It's a Chesapectin jeffersonius pelecypod from the Yorktown formation (Neogene, Pliocene epoch, [...]

Pangea Sauria (I) 

Tito el gallimimus llevaba veinticinco años conduciendo la línea cinco de autobuses escolares de Sapientia Rex, la escuela privada más prestigiosa de los T-Rex. Su veteranía le dotaba de la autoridad [...]

Most Viewed News – August 2015 

The World’s Most Dangerous Volcano (Vesuvius) May Kill Another CityWired Science The World’s Biggest Hydropower Project May be Causing Giant Landslides in ChinaQuartz Tracking A Mysterious Group of [...]

The rise of open research data 

This was originally posted at: http://exchanges.wiley.com/blog/2015/08/26/the-rise-of-open-research-data/ As a junior researcher in the UK, it has given me great pleasure over the last few years to see the [...]

Geoscience Column: The Oldest Eurypterid 

The name of a newly found fossil of sea scorpion draws inspiration from ancient Greece warships and is a unique example of exceptional preservation, shedding light on the rich life of this bygone sea critter, [...]

Pipeline Operators Take Heed – Threatened Enviro Lawsuit May Lead to Greater Regulatory Requirements 

On July 28, 2015, the National Wildlife Federation (“NWF”) filed an intent to sue notice against the Department of Transportation (“DOT”), arguing the DOT has not properly approved pipeline projects [...]