Event Time 2014-02-15 03:23:38 UTC 2014-02-14 22:23:38 UTC-05:00 at epicenter 2014-02-14 22:23:38 UTC-05:00 system time Location — 33.812°N 82.063°W depth=4.9km (3.0mi) Nearby Cities 12km (7mi) WNW of Edgefield, South Carolina 31km (19mi) NNE of Evans, Georgia 32km (20mi) N of Martinez, Georgia 35km (22mi) NNW of North Augusta, South Carolina 97km (60mi) WSW of Columbia, […]
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Java Eruption
JAVA — “Based on verified data, over 76,000 people have been evacuated from five cities around the volcano … and about 200,000 people were affected,” National Disaster Mitigation Agency spokesman Sutopo Nugroho said. The ash has interrupted air travel in the entire region. Fist-size rocks spewed down on rooftops. The largest problem is supplying masks […]
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Winter Storm Battering Mid-Atlantic and New England
NASA — The monster winter storm that brought icing to the U.S. southeast moved northward along the Eastern Seaboard and brought snow, sleet and rain from the Mid-Atlantic to New England on February 13. A new image from NOAA’s GOES satellite showed clouds associated with the massive winter storm stretch from the U.S. southeast to […]
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Tagged climate change, extreme weather, extreme weather events, global warming, volatile, winter storm
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Post-mortem Brains
National Institute of Mental Health — To expedite research on brain disorders, the National Institutes of Health is shifting from a limited funding role to coordinating a Web-based resource for sharing post-mortem brain tissue. Under a NIH NeuroBioBank initiative, five brain banks will begin collaborating in a tissue sharing network for the neuroscience community. “Instead […]
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Star Explosion
A supernova was discovered in the night sky of London on January 23, 2014. NASA says, “A supernova is the explosion of a star. It is the largest explosion that takes place in space.” The explosion was first discovered by students and their teacher Steve Fossey at the University College London. “It was a surreal […]
Wake Up In Space
A spaceship launched 10 years ago is approaching its target — a comet. A landing unit will harpoon itself to the surface. Comets are among the most beautiful and least understood nomads of the night sky. To date, half a dozen of these most heavenly of heavenly bodies have been visited by spacecraft in an […]
Cheese: Toe, Armpit, Belly Button and Mouth Bacteria
The “Grow Your Own… Life After Nature exhibition,” is an exhibit where cheeses are created using “microbial sketches” created with bacteria samples from various people’s body parts. Each cheese ends up smelling like the donor’s body odor. “I’m really excited about things that sometimes are a little bit gross, a little bit disgusting,” microbiologist Christina […]
Record Breaking Cold Weather and Global Warming
Since we began studying global warming, there has been one thing all scientists could agree on — man-made warming of the Earth will cause an increase in extreme weather events. We are not saying that the Earth’s temperature is just going to rise. In general, as energy is added to a system, the fluctuations in […]
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Hottest Year On Record
AUSTRALIA — Data collected and analyzed by the Bureau of Meteorology show that 2013 was Australia’s warmest year on record while rainfall was slightly below average nationally. Summer 2012–13 was the warmest on record nationally, spring was also the warmest on record and winter the third warmest Overall, 2013 was Australia’s warmest year on record: […]
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Interstellar Overdrive
NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft officially is the first human-made object to venture into interstellar space. The 36-year-old probe is about 12 billion miles (19 billion kilometers) from our sun. New and unexpected data indicate Voyager 1 has been traveling for about one year through plasma, or ionized gas, present in the space between stars. Voyager […]