Tourists flock to Italy to see Michelangelo's David and other iconic hunks of Renaissance stone, but in a trip over spring break, a group of Columbia students got to visit rocks that have shaped the world in even more profound ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 7, 2014
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The city of Jeddah's seaport on Saudi Arabia's western coast is pictured in this image from the Kompsat-2 satellite.
Earth Sciences
Feb 7, 2014
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(Phys.org) —Some tricky manoeuvres are now under way to steer ESA's trio of Swarm satellites into their respective orbits so that they can start delivering the best-ever survey of our magnetic field.
Space Exploration
Feb 7, 2014
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Scientists, including Professor Tanniemola Liverpool from the University of Bristol's School of Mathematics, claim that by understanding how an artificial 'synthetic swimmer' can be made and driven, and how such swimmers ...
Mathematics
Feb 7, 2014
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With a stock estimated at 1,000 million tons so far, mesopelagic fish dominate the total biomass of fish in the ocean. However, a team of researchers with the participation of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) ...
Environment
Feb 7, 2014
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The first top predators to walk on land were not afraid to bite off more than they could chew, a University of Toronto Mississauga study has found.
Archaeology
Feb 7, 2014
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Mexico is the fourth largest honey producer and fifth largest honey exporter in the world. A Smithsonian researcher and colleagues helped rural farmers in Mexico to quantify the genetically modified organism (GMO) soybean ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 7, 2014
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A free smartphone application has encouraged more than 70,000 Argentines to become citizen-cops as they shop.
Software
Feb 7, 2014
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Google marked the Winter Games in Sochi by flying the gay flag Thursday in a search page Doodle that linked to a call for equality in the Olympic Charter.
Internet
Feb 7, 2014
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