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By all accounts, the newest Sherlock Holmes movie makes the Great Detective something more like an action hero. But geologists have always known Holmes as an exemplar of their working lives—the real world is in the field, where every perception may be evidence and where no detail is too small to ove ...

The presents are open, the food has kicked in, the rest of the idle day awaits—now here's something more interesting: a once-a-year quiz on geology! Ready? Read more... The 2009 Christmas Geology Quiz originally appeared on About.com Geology on Friday, December 25th, 2009 at 00:16:52. Permalink | Co ...

A side effect of being a scientist is that sometimes they get unduly fixed on their own wrong ideas. Examples that come to mind include Warren Carey and his expanding Earth, Louis Frank and his rain of invisible comets, Marvin Herndon and his uranium core. To that list I must add Robert Folk , who d ...

A paper in the 24 December Nature shows that the deep crust can be an extraordinarily sensitive place: Deep in the San Andreas fault near Parkfield , California, nonvolcanic tremor responds to the daily tides raised by the Moon and Sun. This does nothing for the seismic syzygy theory beloved of geol ...

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 ...

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...

The little troodontid Mei long was justifiably feted as not only a superb specimen of a very young dinosaur but also for apparently preserving behaviour. For those who don’t know, the name means ‘sleeping dragon’ and the animal does appear to be in a very avian-like resting posture with folded up ar ...

By all accounts, the newest Sherlock Holmes movie makes the Great Detective something more like an action hero. But geologists have always known Holmes as an exemplar of their working lives, both brains and muscles—the real world is in the field, where every perception may be evidence and where no d ...

The same end-of-year meme that went around last year is back — post the first sentence from the first post of each month — I wondered if doing the same thing as last year was uninteresting but then I couldn’t think of anything else to do, so here it goes: January 2009 : This week’s Friday Field Foto ...

A summary of photos posted on flickr today, tagged with “ geology .” Displayed below are 63 geology-related photos were added to flickr today. ...

Boy-genius older son solved it in 30 minutes, using a dynamic 'rhythm method', just by 'feeling' it. We had hoped for more of a challenge.