JAPAN — The massive earthquake that struck northeast Japan last March 11 has shortened the length Earth’s day by a fraction and shifted how the planet’s mass is distributed. A new analysis of the 8.9-9.0 magnitude earthquake in Japan has found that the intense temblor has accelerated Earth’s spin, shortening the length of the 24-hour [...]
And they want your money too. I for one would never want to get cremated. I’ve heard stories of bodies sitting upright once they get put into the oven. I don’t want to get buried six feet-sunken into darkness only to get dug up by a construction company a decade later either! So what are [...]
Washington – A Nasa scientist’s claim that he found tiny fossils of alien life in the remnants of a meteorite has stirred both excitement and scepticism, and is being closely reviewed by 100 experts. Richard Hoover’s paper, along with pictures of the microscopic earthworm-like creatures, were published late on Friday in the peer-reviewedJournal of Cosmology, [...]
Led by Joachim Rittsteig, an expert in Mayan writing, a group of scientists and journalists left Germany Tuesday, on a mission to Guatemala in search of a lost Maya treasure allegedly submerged under Lake Izabal. According to the German newspaper Bild, which sponsored the expedition, the expedition includes two reporters from the publication, a photographer, [...]
Christchurch – Rescuers searching the ruins of Christchurch cathedral made a “miraculous” find beneath a statue of the city’s founder: A time capsule believed to be more than 100 years old. Two items – a glass bottle containing rolled-up parchment and a metal cylinder – were found in the plinth of a statue felled in [...]
