October 11, 2007 – 12:26 pm
From American Institute of Physics.
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“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed. It was [...]
From Curious creature caught off Keahole Point.
It’s a squid, it’s an octopus, it’s … a mystery from the deep.
What appears to be a half-squid, half-octopus specimen found off Keahole Point on the Big Island remains unidentified today and could possibly be a new species, said local biologists.
The specimen was found caught in a filter in [...]
From National Geographic.
The noctilucent clouds form in the upper layer of the Earth’s atmosphere in summer and are made of tiny ice crystals.
Scientists don’t know much about how the clouds form, or why they have been appearing more often at lower latitudes and glowing brighter. Some scientists suspect their proliferation is related to increasing greenhouse [...]
From msnbc.
The once-flat shorelines were disfigured by a massive toppling over of the planet, scientists announced today. The warping of the Martian rock has hidden clear evidence of the oceans, which in any case have been gone for at least 2 billion years.
Somewhere along the way to toppling over 50 degrees to the north, Mars [...]
From news @ nature.com.
It’s not just animals that can tell siblings from strangers.
Telling apart relatives from strangers is crucial in many animal species, helping them to share precious resources or avoid inbreeding. Now it seems that plants can perform the same trick.
Now, Susan Dudley and Amanda File of McMaster University in Ontario, Canada, have shown [...]
From LiveScience.
The widely accepted theory-that the pyramids were crafted of carved-out giant limestone blocks that workers carried up ramps-had not only not been embraced by everyone, but as important had quite a number of holes.
The sample chemistries the researchers found do not exist anywhere in nature. “Therefore,” says Barsoum, “it’s very improbable that the outer [...]