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Like something from 2001: A Space Odyssey , this image from the Cassini spacecraft grabbed a lot of attention last week. It shows sunlight reflected off Kraken Mare , a lake of hydrocarbons on Saturn's moon Titan. Kraken and other lakes on Titan are the first bodies of liquid anything ever found off ...

Today Earth sits at the point of its orbit where the tilt of its axis is perfectly aligned with the sun. The north pole points away, the south pole points toward the sun. While I make my way through the shortest day of the year, the intrepid researchers of the Antarctic Search for Meteorites program ...

Today is the last day of the week-long meeting. Only reporters, staffers and generalists come to the whole event, and not even all of them do. But today the exhibitors strike their tents and signs and racks; the pressroom stops feeding the writers; the afternoon sessions sometimes feel a bit forlorn ...

Today has a light schedule of sessions, a short one on earthquake swarms in Washington and Oregon, and in the afternoon a strange set of talks on "Serendipitous Correlations and Synchronized Chaos in Nonlinear Geophysics"—and of course all the posters. Today is also the last day of the exhibition, t ...

Today will be the most strenuous of my week: from 8 a.m. til mid-afternoon I'll be seeing talks on the Terminal Dryas event, purportedly a cosmic impact about 13,000 years ago that caused widespread destruction in North America and sent the world into a thousand-year glacial cold snap. Researchers h ...

Isen omkring Nordpolen forsvinder hurtigere, end selv de mest skeptiske...

Det svenske Vattenfall overtog tre danske kulfyrede kraftværker –...

I Sverige har en mineralsamler fundet de første svenske diamanter...

Dig og klimaet Informationscenter for Miljø og Sundhed har i dag (1....

Jordskred, som det der onsdag aften rev 400 meter af motorvej E6 og 300 meter...

Snow at Christmas. Yay. Well, snow just before Christmas anyway. And no, it's not snowing in Australia, I'm in London for Christmas and January. Missed the Eurostar debacle by a few days, so snow and an uneventful trip from Paris to London by train. Things are looking good. Chocs and wine at the rea ...

We already had a recent blog post on the possible "real" meteorite crater, which is thought to be responsible for the events marking the K/T Boundary. Geology recently published a paper on a hypothesis that the Sudbury Impact caused the end of banded iron deposition, at least in the Lake Superior re ...

It is warm today : -30 degrees with little or no wind. A relief after the past few days... The CASE-IPY experiment is proceeding nicely. Today we have started full-scale tests of the equipment we are to deploy. We have connected up the 3 solar panels, two regulators, ten batteries, an acquisition ...

Population Explosion may trigger Global Warming. by Dr. Nitish Priyadarshi Image credit: http://webecoist.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/population-explosion1.jpg The earth’s population has nearly doubled since World War II. More babies than ever than ever have been born, but this is only part of t ...

The sky turned yellow and dark today in Casa Grande, Arizona, near the metropolis of Phoenix. A major winter storm was blowing through the desert, and as we left Tucson the wind was already whipping up. By the time we reached Picacho huge billowing clouds of yellow dust obscured the freeway. It was ...