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The Mars Express spacecraft recently flew over the boundary between Kasei Valles and Sacra Fossae, a fault system that extends for more than 600 miles, on Mars. The image below has a resolution of 21 meters (about 70 feet) per...
As expected Ida has weakened during the last 24 hours over Nicaragua and Honduras, and it's now a depression. However, the system should move back into the Caribbean Sea in the next 12 to 24 hours, where the waters are...
A survey of more than 2,500 U.S. scientists has confirmed that they hold starkly different views about God than the general public. Just 33 percent of scientists believe in God, with another 18 percent believing in a universal spirit or...
NOON UPDATE: Ida has weakened into a strong tropical storm, as expected. The models appear to be coming into agreement that Ida, in some form or another, will reach the Gulf of Mexico by late Monday or early Tuesday. Still...
You may have heard of abiotic oil, the notion that oil is not the result of ancient biomass --hence the term fossil fuels -- but rather from compressed methane seeping up from the Earth's mantle. Most petroleum engineers spurn abiotic...
