A giant blob of water the size of the Arctic Ocean has been discovered hundreds of miles beneath eastern Asia, scientists report. But nobody will be exploring this sea by submarine. The water is locked in moisture-containing rocks 700 to 1,400 kilometers beneath the surface.
team of scientists will embark on a voyage next week to study an “open wound” on the Atlantic seafloor where the Earth’s deep interior lies exposed without any crust covering. The lesion is located mid-way between the Cape Verdes Islands and the Caribbean in the Atlantic Ocean. It lies nearly 2 miles beneath the ocean surface and extends over thousands of square kilometers; it provides scientists with a rare opportunity to study the Earth’s rocky innards.
Welcome to the third in a Google Earth Sightseeing series that has seen competitive homeowners across the globe vying to emulate the affluence of their immediate neighbours - Keeping up with the Joneses! Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3. Check out neighbour copy behaviour - tennis courts, trampolines, and...airplane landing strips...
The Think Tank is a kinetic installation created in collaboration with the artist known as Trimpin. A system of 24 bobbing chickens triggers MIDI pulses, a typewriter controlled by a solenoid array types text, between the two, a computer generates random text based on President George Bush speeches analysis, and chicken pecking activity.
According to a group of scientists brought together in this BBC Documentary The Great Global Warming Swindle. , if the planet is heating up, it isn't your fault ... and there's nothing you can do about it. We've almost begun to take it for granted that climate change is a man-made phenomenon. But just as the environmental lobby think they've got our attention, a group of naysayers have emerged to slay the whole premise of global warming..... judge for yourself.
The joys, terrors and true possibilities of navigating the Fourth Dimension, very interesting video documentary with quantum physicist Michio Kaku and astrophysicist Charles Liu: Can You Time-Travel?
In this video, Jeff Han and Phil Davidson demonstrate how a multi-touch driven computer screen will change the way we work and play.
Today's lunatic might be tomorrow's Da Vinci... This fellow Paul Lafolley is certainly an interesting guy, with a different look at life and at art. Fascinating stuff. Just listen to his story here, and he'll even tell you that time-travel will be possible. Part 2 and Part 3 of the interview are here.
Strange blue lights in the night sky Wednesday in the USA were seen, but there are reports of similar sightings in Europe, a BBC story tells about strange lights in the night sky above Wales. And the US Air Force reveals secret weapons tests that sparked a global UFO frenzy ignited by an Air Force officer
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Another great use of Google maps. If you dig straight down, where will you end up? Only if you live in Chile or Argentina you will end up in China :)... Dig Straight Down
Good use of Google Maps in thsi one: they created dynamic maps of sea level rise. Does global warming matter to you? ....A rise of the sea level at 7 meters and there is not much left of countries like Holland or Bangladesh. But also Florida is in grave danger! See The Flood Maps
Find out more about myhts like Chickens can live without a head, Humans use only 10 percent of their brains, Yawning is "contagious", Animals can predict natural disasters, or You get less wet by running in the rain. See The most popular myths in science.
Was The Apollo Moon Landing Fake (And why haven't we been back to the moon in 36 years?). While common sense would say no, these folks say yes.
If you watch the morning or evening sky these days and have a clear view of the horizon, you will be able to spot a bright object with a prominent tail: it's the Comet McNaught ! Instructions for viewing the comet in the morning from Spaceweather.com: 1) At dawn, go outside and face east 2) Using binoculars, scan the horizon 3)The comet is located just south of due east.
GLOBAL warming is one of the greatest threats to present day civilisation but work by a team of Scots scientists suggests the ancient Egyptians may have been earlier victims of climate change. Insight into this radical climate change at the heart of Africa has important implications for trying to understand the past, present and future climate. The flow of water would have slowed to a trickle, causing a devastating famine that lasted for 200 years, destroying the Old Kingdom and its people., leaving only the pyramids and the Sphinx at Giza as their legacy..
This one's going to be a collector's item in 50 years...when all polar caps have melted and most animal species have disappeared. Incredible naive stuff.. .though very interesting to know all the counter-arguments as well: the US Government Publishes The 'Skeptics Guide' To Global Warming...
If fishing around the world continues at its present pace, more and more species will vanish, marine ecosystems will unravel and there will be "global collapse" of all species currently fished, possibly as soon as midcentury, fisheries experts and ecologists are predicting. (Herald Trib)
To view the Earth as currently seen from a satellite in Earth orbit, choose the satellite from the list and press the "View Earth from Satellite" button. The satellite database is updated regularly and covers hundreds of different positions and satellites.
Scientists have discovered a dramatic variation in the genetic make-up of humans that could lead to a fundamental reappraisal of what for instance causes incurable diseases. Until now it was assumed that the human genome, or "book of life", is largely the same for everyone. Instead, the findings suggest that the book contains entire sentences, paragraphs or even whole pages that are repeated any number of times - we are at least 10 times more different between one another than once thought.
Europeans are overwhelmingly convinced that human activity is contributing to global warming, and a majority – 68 per cent –would be prepared to accept restrictions on their lifestyle to combat it, according to a poll for the Financial Times.
A brief interactive tour of the higher dimensions - progressively harder to imagine the higher up you go. We know the 5 dimensions, but what are numbers six to ten?? Here the dimensions thing is explained clearly and concisely. Fascinating storytelling in Flash. Learn everything at Imagining the Ten DImensions..
A simulation that displays the carbon dioxide emission levels of every country in the world, as well as their birth and death rates - all in real time.
Researchers announced today that they've built the world's first invisibility cloak, although the fine print may disappoint science-fiction fans. The device works only in two dimensions and only on microwaves.
90% of the UFO videos are either explainable, or outright hoaxes. But the 10% that are clear and are not explainable are amazing. Two unusual UFO videos have puzzled everybody. One video from China gives a clear image of a UFO over an apartment block that suddenly disappears . The second is the "Alien Gurney" video, from the 40's in Roswell where dead alien and human bodies were shown on film.
Researchers at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands are developing a "superbus" that goes 155 MILES PER HOUR and runs on electricity. The aerodynamic bus is low -- too low for passengers inside to stand up -- so every passenger has his own door. The 30-seat bus is the same length and width of a standard city bus, but it's only as high as an SUV. Check out the video.
Universal Leonardo is a highly innovative project that aims to radically extend public understanding and appreciation of the deep unity and extraordinary diversity of Leonardo da Vinci’s work in all his fields of endeavour. Universal Leonardo presents a series of linked European exhibitions, some of which are informed by scientific investigations, that reveal new dimensions in the legacy of the greatest visual thinker of all time: Universal Leonardo.
A gigantic meteor crater has been discovered in the desert in Jordan, suggesting that some terrible disaster took place in this area in prehistoric times. We know that an asteroid ended the world of the dinosaurs—could this asteroid have ended the ancient Sumerian world and given rise to ancient legends about end times?
The Space shuttle UFO mystery deepens with more objects sighted. Yesterday three more unidentified objects have been spotted floating in space close to the shuttle Atlantis.
Please enjoy browsing these original film and digital photo galleries of photo animations of the young moon setting, deep space, night skies, lunar and solar stuff, cloud rushes, moonshadows, or low-lying clouds. See Time-Lapse Photo Animations at Cosmotions..
The Smoking Gun is an amazing Nasa video about unexplained objects in space. Evidence was presented that indicates the existence of, not one, but two types of unknown extraterrestrial lifeforms. Labeled ‘Phenomena One’ and ‘Phenomena Two’ - the proof comes from years of NASA space shuttle transmissions mentioning UFO's and other strange observations. The discovery can now be revealed - view video.
Scientists are considering very unorthodox ways to fight global warming. In the past few decades, a handful of scientists have come up with big, futuristic ways to fight global warming: Build sunshades in orbit to cool the planet. Tinker with clouds to make them reflect more sunlight back into space. Trick oceans into soaking up more heat-trapping greenhouse gases.
The southern end of the San Andreas fault near Los Angeles, which has been still for more than two centuries, is under immense stress and could produce a massive earthquake at any moment, a scientist said today. There could be enough pent-up energy in the southern end to trigger a cataclysmic jolt of up to 10 meters .
People are hoping to see this Merapi vulcano eruption live. The hottest search now at Google is "Merapi webcam". Unfortunately there is NO webcam watching. The closest you can get is an infrared animated java satellite image here, or newsfeeds from the Volcanological Technology Research Center (Merapi is observed by them). Another interesting link is the Volcanic Explosivity Index at Wikipedia.
The BBC has posted several alarming/depressing photos of before-and-after views of global warming. See also: Photographer Gary Braasch's World View Of Global Warming website.
A website warning of a tsunami has spread panic in Morocco, despite the government's assertion that the alert was merely rumour - and the dubious nature of its source..The Ufological Research Centre said on its website last week that a tsunami could hit the Atlantic after a comet passes close to earth on Thursday, May 25.
Looks like our future is about to be different... and the company to thank for it is ProVision who have what I have to say is one of the coolest pieces of ad tech I've seen in a while. 3D holographic ads... I'm sure you're all very familiar with the Star Wars scene where Leia is projected by R2-D2 onto the table...click here to view the Flash video on the company website.
The Map of the Known Universe is a flashy 3d projection based on real astronomical data taking the viewer through a journey between the brightest stars in the nightsky. Plan your trip with this Map of the Known Universe.
The American Antigravity website is a repository for Field-Effect Propulsion and Lifter technology info. They investigate new and innovative technologies, and follow media and other experimenters worldwide involved with antigravity. Also check out the cool antigravity videos.
If the speed of light could be reduced - from over a billion kilometers per hour, to just a few meters per second - the world would look very different! The Australian National University Relativistic Visualization Project has used supercomputers to simulate what we might see in a world where the effects of Einstein's theory of special relativity are everyday experiences.
In 1960, a year before Yuri Gagarin became the first person in space, US pilot Joe Kittenger was the real first man in space. He went up in a balloon 30 kilometres above the Earth and JUMPED!!! Here's a video clip including some film Kittenger shot on his way falling down towards earth at 990km an hour.
Scared-stiff astronomers have detected a mysterious mass they've dubbed a "chaos cloud" that dissolves everything in its path, including comets, asteroids, planets and entire stars -- and it's headed directly toward Earth! Expected to be here around 2014...
All the latests news from the explorations on Mars at Red Nova
The Voyage of the Odyssey is a 5-year scientific voyage to study the health of the world's oceans. The site has a lot of multimedia material about life in the seas. The Odyssey will be continuously connected to the world via an interactive website - check the 'bowcam'. Follow the journey and results online.
Astronomers have detected a supermassive black hole that's 10 billion times the mass of the sun and is big enough to hold 1,000 of our solar systems within it.
View the most recent pictures from the Cassini Huygens Mission to Saturn
In an effort to prove the existance of giants this site was launched. Among the posts is a video of a giant washed on shore by the tsunami disaster, a video of giant found buried in the ice by an oil-surveying expedition to Northern Siberia and a giant sea creature. If you ever catch a bigfoot in your backyard, bring it in and get the $ 1 million reward.
The Soviet dictator Josef Stalin ordered the creation of Planet of the Apes-style warriors by crossing humans with apes, according to recently uncovered secret documents.
An outbreak of geysers spewing mud and gas into the air in Oklahoma USA is puzzling state and local officials. The geysers have appeared throughout the countryside of a rural area, with stretches of up to 12 miles between spots, and some as short as a quarter of a mile.
A perfectly preserved fossil of a feathered creature that lived 150 million years ago has provided further evidence to show that modern birds are actually living dinosaurs. The fossil grew to the size of a magpie and probably lived most of
