The Japan earthquake has registered 6.1 magnitude on the Richter scale. The US Geological Society (USGS) said it struck at a depth of six miles. It occurred 174 miles east of Kamaishi. The quake struck at 5.37pm UTC. No tsunami warnings are currently in place. The earthquake occurred a day […]
Daily Archives: September 20, 2017
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Astrophysicists have figured out a new way to weigh black holes, even though they can’t see them. This method for estimating a black hole’s mass came from closer observation of what happens when a star is torn apart by one of these space voids, whose gravitational pull is so strong […]
The US President said he had been so impressed with the French parade, staged on the country’s independence day, he had asked White House chief of staff John Kelly to look into the possibility of recreating the parade in Washington to mark US Independence Day. Mr Trump said: “To a […]
Why are there so many more species in the tropics? The ‘storage effect’ is stronger there than in temperate forests.
Scientists say that a large, now extinct, frog called Beelzebufo that lived about 68 million years ago in Madagascar would have been capable of eating small dinosaurs. The conclusion comes from a study of the bite force of South American horned frogs from the living genus Ceratophrys, known as Pacman […]
Forest fires in Southeast Asia during the El Niño droughts of 2015 caused considerable disruption to the biodiversity of the region due to the smoke-induced ‘haze’ they created, according to new research.
Scientists are proposing a new way of understanding the cooling and transfer of heat from terrestrial planetary interiors and how that affects the generation of the volcanic terrains that dominate the rocky planets.
Cornell University permanently disbanded a fraternity on Tuesday after several of its affiliated members were allegedly involved in an assault that is being investigated by police as a possible hate crime. Authorities in Ithaca, New York, responded to reports of a fight early Friday involving several students at the Ivy […]