Shipwreck miners hit gold – and something more exciting
Miners on the coast of Namibia knew they had struck archaeological gold when they drained a coastal area and found a shipwreck at the bottom, but they did not expect any literal bounty.Their search yielded $13 million worth of gold coins from Portugal's Age of Exploration, the contents of a treasure chest from one of the oldest and most significant shipwrecks off Africa's Skeleton Coast, reported Fox News. The miners' discovery not only excites researchers studying the seafaring adventures of ..>> view originalThis Dying Baby Planet Never Had A Chance
Astronomers have discovered a newly born “hot Jupiter” in a distant star system that’s locked in a slow death spiral. It may only be a matter of time before this poor baby planet gets torn to shreds. Artist’s impression of the dying planet. (Image by A. Passwaters/Rice University) Located 1100 light years away in the constellation of Orion, this star system is just two million years old. That’s a blip in cosmological terms. Just to give you some perspective: Earth is 4.5 billion years old, and..>> view originalGreenland Reaches 75 Degrees June: Country Sets New Temperature Record For Month Of June
Greenland has set a temperature record as its capital city, Nuuk, reaches 75 degrees Fahrenheit in June for the first time in recorded history. On the day that Nuuk reached 75 degrees, New York City saw a high of only 71 degrees. The record June temperature is only 3.6 degrees away from the all-time high temperature of 78.6 degrees. This record high happened in Greenland on July 30, 2013. Temperatures have been tracked consistently in Greenland since 1958. Even though temperature record keeping..>> view originalLearning about the universe
Photo: Deborah Pfeiffer People learned about the universe and the whole ball of wax at an open house, Saturday, at the Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory, DRAO, near Penticton. The open house at the observatory marks 100 years of the National Research Council of Canada. "We feel that we are a strong part of the community and we want to share the work we do here with the public," said Sean Dougherty, director of the large facility. Since DRAO opened its doors in 1960, it has pushed the..>> view originalScientists swap lab coats for hardhats in the search for dark matter in Victorian goldmine
Scientists are swapping their lab coats for hard hats as they search for dark matter in an operating goldmine where a $3.5 million laboratory is being built.An international team of scientists are working in the depths of the town of Stanwell in Victoria state in the hopes of discovering elusive dark matter.'It's like we are miners,' laboratory director and principal investigator Elisabetta Barberio told Daily Mail Australia. 'We don't look like physicists with our hard hats.'Working in the min..>> view originalMedieval cities hidden under jungle in Cambodia revealed using lasers, archaeologists say
Medieval cities hidden under jungle in Cambodia revealed using lasers, archaeologists say Updated June 12, 2016 17:54:15 Unprecedented new details of medieval cities hidden under jungle in Cambodia near Angkor Wat have been revealed using lasers, archaeologists say, shedding new light on the civilisation behind the world's largest religious complex.While the research has been going on for several years, the new findings uncover the sheer scale of the Khmer Empire's urba..>> view originalProject will 'push humanity forward'
New space telescope to answer the big question, Are we alone??1:50The James Webb space telescope is being sent almost a million miles away, tasked with answering the question: 'Are we alone?' Artist's concept of the James Webb Space Telescope against the background stars of the Milky way. Image credit: ESAIT’S one of the most sophisticated science instruments ever conceived and astronomers will have just one shot at successfully launching it into the universe.Researchers from around the world h..>> view originalNASA reveals massive dust storms on Mars surface
Zee Media Bureau New Delhi: NASA recently revealed stunning images of huge dust storms on the surface of Red Planet while analyzing the seasonal patterns of Mars. After years of research NASA scientists discovered three distinct regional storms occurring consecutively at approximately the same times of a year, during summer and spring in the southern hemisphere. One Martian year is equal to two years on the Earth and the change in temperature record in the six recent Martian years leads to this ..>> view original
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