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Ancient auditory illusions reflected in prehistoric art?

Here are prehistoric paintings of hoofed animals in a cave with thunderous reverberations located in Bhimbetka, India. …

Where did all the oil go?

This image shows hydrocarbon contamination from Deepwater Horizon overlaid on sea floor bathymetry, highlighting the 1,25…

How dinosaur arms turned into bird wings

Since early dinosaurs, birds have reduced the number of bones in their wrist, but the origins and identity of those rema…

Monte Roraima: Table Top Mountain

Monte Roraima is a tepui, a table-top mountain, located on the border between Venezuela, Brazil, and Guyana. It is the highe…

A GPS from the chemistry set

A handy effect This process is an example of the Marangoni effect, which works because the acid distributed in th…

Desert Streams: Deceptively Simple

Dryland channels exhibit very simple topography despite being shaped by volatile rainstorms. That paradox has been…

Software models ocean currents for oil and gas search

Streamline visualisation provides a 2D generalised representation of recorded electromagnetic fields within deep oceans. …

Icelandic volcano sits on massive magma hot spot

Holuhraun fissure eruption on the flanks of the Bárðarbunga volcano in central Iceland on Oct. 4, 2014, showing the deve…