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May 14, 2008 at 10:37 CDT
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Methane Scavengers Captured
Scientists of the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) in Leipzig and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena succeeded...
Scientists of the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) in Leipzig and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena succeeded...
Images of the Day
Ash from the Chaiten Volcano.
The Chaiten Volcano in Chile has been erupting throughout early May, 2008. The plume put off by the volcano stretched east across Argentina to the Atlantic Ocean. This image shows the plume on May ...
Nepenthes Mensae Perspective View.
The High Resolution Stereo Camera on board ESA’s Mars Express orbiter imaged Nepenthes Mensae, a river delta on Mars, on 22 January 2008. The region is located in the eastern hemisphere of Mars, ...
Beauty Marks.
Two dark spots drift across the northern skies of Saturn. The shadows are cast by the moons Tethys and Mimas.
Tethys (1,071 kilometers, or 665 miles across) orbits farther from Saturn th...
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Fact of the Day
A four month old fetus will startle and turn away if a bright light is flashed on it's mother's belly. Babies in the womb will also react to sudden loud noises, even if their mother's ears are muffled.Sponsored links
Quote of the Day
Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature. - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930)
Word of the Day
boisterous
Pronunciation: /BOY-stuh-ris/
adj : noisy and unruly
"The boisterous party on the second floor kept us up all night."
Today in History
May 14, 1878
The trademarked name "Vaseline" -- for a brand of petroleum jelly -- was registered this day by Robert A. Chesebrough.
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