Earth's tides could trigger earthquakes along San Andreas fault
Earth's tides could trigger earthquakes along San Andreas fault CBS , WTSP 5:08 AM. EST July 21, 2016 The space shuttle Endeavor captured this image of the San Andreas Fault on Feb. 11, 2000. (Photo: NASA/JPL/NIMA) The same tides that affect ocean waves can trigger earthquakes along California's San Andreas Fault, and scientists unexpectedly find that these quakes are more likely to happen as tides are strengthening, not when they are at their strongest.The rise and..>> view originalDark Matter Still a Mystery: Most Sensitive Search Yet Comes Up Empty
The view from inside the Large Underground Xenon (LUX) dark matter detector, which is nearly a mile underground below the Black Hills of South Dakota. The upgraded detector just finished its 20-month run without finding dark matter activity. Credit: Matthew Kapust. Copyright Š South Dakota Science and Technology Authority The incredibly sensitive LUX dark-matter detector, buried under a mile of rock, has come up empty on its 20-month search for dark matter — further narrowing down the p..>> view originalApollo 11 Moon Documentary Launches on Decades Network Today
A still from the documentary "Go: The Great Race," airing on the Decades network on June 20. Credit: Decades network A TV documentary set to premier today (July 20) will tell the incredible story of the first moon landing, which took place 47 years ago today. The documentary, called "Go: The Great Race," will air four times today on the Decades TV Network, as a special episode of the show "Through the Decades." A trailer for the documentary leads off with footage from President John ..>> view originalA rock as long as New Jersey may have smashed up the moon's 'face'
(Matt Cardy/Getty Images) It has been 47 years since the first moon landing, but our satellite still holds so many mysteries. According to a new study published in Nature, a New Jersey-size space rock once hit our fair moon right in the kisser. In fact, the impact may have given the moon an "eye" in its famous "face." If you can see the man in the moon, the Mare Imbrium (sea of rains) forms his right eye (the moon's right, not yours). If the moon rabbit is more your speed, you'll spot the g..>> view originalCaribbean cave art sheds surprising new light on ancient religious collision
(British Museum/University of Leicester) The picturesque island of Mona sits isolated between the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico in the Caribbean Sea. It has no human settlements and is devoid of human life except for Puerto Rican wildlife managers, conservationists and the odd researcher. But beneath the island, cutting through the limestone like the bacterial bubbles in Swiss cheese, are a network of caves. And tucked away within those caverns hide remnants of a rich cultural history,..>> view original2 'Nearby' Exoplanets Confirmed to Be Rocky — and May Be Habitable
Two Earth-size planets orbiting a nearby star are now confirmed to be rocky, strengthening the case that they might be habitable, a new study finds. The atmospheres of these worlds may range from vanishingly thin, like that of Mars, to hellishly dense, like Venus' air — and, possibly, comfortably in between, like Earth's, the researchers said. In May, astronomers reported the discovery of three Earth-size planets orbiting a dim, cold, red star named TRAPPIST-1. This "ultracool dwarf"..>> view original'X' shape in Milky Way confirmed via Twitter
He'd been working with the WISE data as part of his work on the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, which performs detailed observations of selected galaxies to map the large-scale structure of the universe."I released the results in the hope that they would be useful for other scientific studies," said Lang, a research associate for the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics at the University of Toronto, who also built an interactive site to help people explore the maps.He also admits that part of..>> view originalThe climate that most of us grew up with is gone for good
On Tuesday, two government science agencies announced that the first six months of 2016 were the warmest first half of any year on record. The data confirms what climate scientists have been startled to see during the past several years — the Earth's climate has made a step jump into a new, hotter era with more intense and frequent extreme events. One way to look at the recent climate trends is to take the past 60 years of temperature data and break them into 20-year periods. The changes in ..>> view originalBrain map carves cortex into twice as many areas
Image copyright M Glasser, D Van Essen/Washington University Image caption Both brain activity and its physical properties were used to create the map A new brain map, based on multiple scans of more than 400 individuals, has carved the "cortex" into 180 different compartments - 97 of which are new.This crumpled outer layer of the brain is home to our advanced cognition, perception and movement.It has been mapped in various ways for centuries, but thi..>> view original
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