In observing the behavior of different segments of the population of our town and how they approach life and politics, I was reminded of an episode from my college days.
Emirates News Agency on MSN

SAASST hosts seminar on meteorite science

The Sharjah Academy for Astronomy, Space Sciences, and Technology (SAASST) at the University of Sharjah has hosted a research ...
Live Science on MSN

Iceland Comes From Greenland?

Scientists learn to better understand the movement of Greenland, as it was slowly pushed over the hotspot that is now located under neighboring Iceland. Nothing stands still over geologic time, and ...
Rising levels of CO2 in the atmosphere may trigger a series of geological and biological processes that could ensure the next ...
To test if earthquakes that occur successively at different locations are related to each other — in this case, the twin quakes in Davao Oriental after the one in Cebu — geologists employ a technique ...
The wondrous webs of life that sustain us are celebrated in Anja Murray's latest book on the treasures of Irish nature ...
Evidence points to a long-lost ocean beneath Ariel’s icy crust. Tides and orbit shifts may have cracked its surface billions of years ago. Growing evidence indicates that a deep ocean may lie hidden ...
Stoneflies (order Plecoptera) rank among the most ancient lineages of winged insects. Beyond their role as key bioindicators for evaluating freshwater ...
Fresh geological insights are offering a new perspective on Mars’ ancient climate, pointing to the possibility that a massive ...
GLASSBORO - Dr. Harold Connolly will wait seven years for his asteroid samples to return from space on a $1 billion mission. In the meantime, the bow-tied geologist and admitted geek, is building a ...
By breaking the rules of atomic order, scientists have created MXenes unlike any seen before. Nine metals now share a single ...