Map of World's Largest Volcanoes. Credit: Hobart M. King, Ph.D. The map displayed above illustrates the locations of the world's major volcanoes. The Tamu Massif, which is located on the Shatsky Rise in the northwest corner of the Pacific Ocean, has the greatest mass and footprint. Mauna Kea, located on the Hawaiian island of Oahu, has...
Illustration of Mansa Musa's caravan. Credit: Sutori According to the 2019 Forbes billionaires list, announced in March 2019, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is the wealthiest individual on the planet. With a fortune of around $131 billion (99 billion), he is the richest man in modern history. He is not, however, the wealthiest individual who has...
Credit: GERARD SOURY/THE IMAGE BANK/GETTY IMAGES Around 19 million years ago, something horrible happened to sharks. Fossils amassed from sediments in the Pacific Ocean reveal a previously unidentified and shocking shark extinction event. During this event, the populations of the predators abruptly dropped by as much as 90 percent, researchers report in the journal Science on June 4....
The ignition of plasma under water. Credit: © Damian Gorczany Physicists of Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) have taken amazing pictures that allow the ignition process of plasma underwater to be observed and also tracked in real-time. Dr. Katharina Grosse has given the first data collections with the ultra-high temporal resolution, backing a new theory on igniting...
Artist impression of the Galileo probe descending into Jupiter’s atmosphere. Credit: NASA/Ken Hodges Planet Earth is perfectly hospitable for organic life, which means that similar planets orbiting distant stars could also be booming with life. However, proving this is a challenge. One of the best ways to find extraterrestrial life will undoubtedly be to examine...
How did it all start? This image maps the cooler infrared emission from interstellar dust found throughout the interstellar medium. NASA/JPL-Caltech As humanity has rolled in beyond into space, we have come to learn a great deal even more concerning the lifecycle of the solar system. From a collapsing cloud of gas into an all-new star to an...
MIT researchers observe ripples across a newly fertilized egg that are similar to other systems, from ocean and atmospheric circulations to quantum fluids. Credit: MIT When an egg cell of virtually any kind of sexually reproducing species is fertilized, it triggers a chain of waves that ripple across the egg's surface area. These waves are...
Hydrogen fuel stemmed from the sea could be a bountiful and sustainable substitute to fossil fuels; however, the potential power source has been limited by technological obstacles, consisting of exactly how to harvest it. Scientists at the University of Central Florida designed for the very first time a nanoscale material that can successfully divide seawater...
Marine bacteria in the icy waters of the Canadian Arctic are capable of biodegrading oil and also diesel fuel, according to a brand-new study released in Applied and Environmental Microbiology, a journal of the American Society for Microbiology. Genomic sequencing exposed the unexpected potential for hydrocarbon bioremediation in lineages of bacteria including Paraperlucidibaca, Cycloclasticus, and...
