January 2017

How Salt Crystals Destroy Stone Buildings
How Salt Crystals Destroy Stone Buildings

Salt crystals Salt crystals are often responsible when buildings start to show signs of ageing. Researchers from the Institute f...

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Fossilized Tree and Ice Cores Help Date Huge Volcanic Eruption
Fossilized Tree and Ice Cores Help Date Huge Volcanic Eruption

An international team of researchers has managed to pinpoint, to within three months, a medieval volcanic eruption in east Asia the pre...

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Scientists Create A New Kind Of Matter: Time Crystals
Scientists Create A New Kind Of Matter: Time Crystals

Hoarfrost is a kind of ice crystal made of water. Researchers discovered time crystals, which are repetitive patterns that can move w...

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Answering the Mystery of Turquoise Provenance
Answering the Mystery of Turquoise Provenance

Turquoise has had cultural significance for Native American peoples in the southwestern United States and Mexico for more than a millen...

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Scientists Have Finally Created Metallic Hydrogen
Scientists Have Finally Created Metallic Hydrogen

Diamond anvils being used to put pressure on hydrogen sample Lab-Made 'Metallic Hydrogen' Could Revolutionize Rocket Fuel N...

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Scientists Discover 'Alien' Insect in Amber From 100 Million Years Ago
Scientists Discover 'Alien' Insect in Amber From 100 Million Years Ago

Introducing Aethiocarenus burmanicus. (image: George Poinar, Jr.) Around 100 million years ago, an alien-looking insect with a bizarr...

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Alaska volcano erupts for 2nd day in a row; planes warned
Alaska volcano erupts for 2nd day in a row; planes warned

Pavlof Volcano in Alaska sends a plume of volcanic ash into the air on Sunday. It has had 40 known eruptions. Photo: AP The Alaska Vol...

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Exceptionally Preserved Jurassic Sea Life Found in New Fossil Site
Exceptionally Preserved Jurassic Sea Life Found in New Fossil Site

A fossilized mantle of a vampyropod, a relative to the modern vampire squid (pictured on bottom right). The ink sack is the raised struct...

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187.7ct Foxfire Diamond Discovered in Sub-arctic Ice
187.7ct Foxfire Diamond Discovered in Sub-arctic Ice

The Foxfire diamond is the largest known uncut, gem-quality diamond mined in North America.  (Smithsonian Museum of Natural History/Amade...

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Fiery eruption of Mexico's Colima volcano sends ash 2 km into air
Fiery eruption of Mexico's Colima volcano sends ash 2 km into air

Mexico's 'fire' volcano has blasted its top again. Dramatic video showed Colima spewing incandescent material early Wednesd...

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Did an earthquake shrink Mount Everest?
Did an earthquake shrink Mount Everest?

Mount Everest from an aerial view taken over Nepal on Oct. 21, 2005. According to India's surveyor-general, a school of thought has...

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Bogoslof sends ash over Unalaska; Takawangha rumbles
Bogoslof sends ash over Unalaska; Takawangha rumbles

Bogoslof Volcano could send ash cloud to Unalaska following eruption The latest eruption of Bogoslof volcano Tuesday morning sent a rela...

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The Largest Rough Ruby Crystal in the World
The Largest Rough Ruby Crystal in the World

This unique specimen is one of the world’s largest known rough ruby gemstones. This unique single natural ruby crystal weighs 8.2 lbs. ...

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Are we ready for another massive volcanic eruption?
Are we ready for another massive volcanic eruption?

Are we ready for another massive volcanic eruption? An enormous volcanic eruption would not necessarily plunge the world into a new s...

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Understanding New Evidence of the Impact of Climate Change in the Early Jurassic Period
Understanding New Evidence of the Impact of Climate Change in the Early Jurassic Period

This shows Early Jurassic ammonite. Credit: Plymouth University Geochemical and biological research offers academics a window into ear...

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Meteorite Identification: Identify Meteorites in 7 Steps
Meteorite Identification: Identify Meteorites in 7 Steps

Meteorite Identification: Identify Meteorites in 7 Steps. Photo: © Vladimir / Adobe Stock Have an interesting rock in your possession and...

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Tsunami Warning for Us West Coast After Magnitude-7.9 Earthquake Off Alaska
Tsunami Warning for Us West Coast After Magnitude-7.9 Earthquake Off Alaska

A magnitude-7.9 earthquake detected in the Gulf of Alaska has triggered tsunami warnings in Alaska and tsunami watches across several...

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Aventurescence: Light-Reflecting Inclusions That Produce a Bright Flash
Aventurescence: Light-Reflecting Inclusions That Produce a Bright Flash

Sunstone from Oregon Aventurescence is an optical reflectance effect seen in certain gems. The effect amounts to a metallic glitter...

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Conditions Right for Complex Life Come and Go?
Conditions Right for Complex Life Come and Go?

This is a 1.9-billion-year-old stromatolite -- or mound made by microbes that lived in shallow water -- called the Gunflint Formation in ...

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