Science & Society
What will you be doing at 1:36 am Tuesday?
Yah, I know I need my sleep, and I need to be ready for school in the morning but everyone I know will be up at 1:36 am EDT Tuesday (tomorrow). How about you?
I’ve been sitting at my computer watching live feed from the Cape. The sun is setting and Discovery’s on the launch pad [...]
Waves From Bill
I was sitting at the table Saturday morning having breakfast with my wife, in the background the weather channel was talking about the waves that we could expect from hurricane Bill, then close to 1,000 miles away off the coast of Virginia. Hard to imagine that something that far away could have a significant affect [...]
Looking Back To Space
From Zoe 5 on The Sky This Week, 2009 January 23 – 30
i am watching the launch of a kepler thats going into space and its looking for other earths. i wonder how fast it really is going when it gets into space?
From christopher P4 on The Sky This Week, 2009 January 23 – 30
when [...]
Mt Redoubt Ready to Erupt?
I know we are looking into space right now, recording images of the Moon and watching Venus, but lets take a quick look back at Terra Firma.
Remember how we said that earthquake activity can signal a possible volcanic eruption? Well scientist have recently noticed an increase in seismic activity around Mt Reboubt in Alaska.
A little [...]
Glaciers Keep Melting
Atmosphere Journal (April 14, 2008)
Glaciers worldwide keep shrinking at an alarming rate, according to the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP). The rate of thinning doubled from 2005 to 2006. The study looked at data from 30 glaciers in nine mountain ranges around the world.
On average, glaciers shrank by almost five feet (over 1.5 meters) in [...]
Asteroid Passes Near Earth
Near-Earth Asteroid Offers Rare Chance for a Close Look(From US News and World Report)
Scientists call them “near-Earth objects”—the giant space rocks that whiz by our planet every 5 years or so. The one that passed us early this morning came within an unsettling 334,000 miles of Earth. Not to worry, experts say, the asteroid, which [...]
Earth’s Plates May Take a Break
By Phil Berardelli
ScienceNOW Daily News
4 January 2008
Movement of the plates that made up the
supercontinent Pangaea could have stopped
temporarily and decreased Earth’s volcanic activity.
Gridlock.
Credit: Nicolle Rager, National Science Foundation,
based on Pangaea map data, Paleogeographic Atlas
Project, University of Chicago
Time and tide may wait for no man, but continents occasionally do. That’s the conclusion of a study published [...]
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