January 5, 2012
D-Day's Legacy: Remnants of invasion linger in beach sands
Before dawn on June 6, 1944, more than 160,000 Allied troops began storming the shores of Normandy, France, in what would be the turning point of …
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January 5, 2012
Criminals steal London dino's dung
Blogging on EARTH A series of robberies over the past five years at London’s Natural History Museum has curators frustrated — and puzzled. From …
January 5, 2012
Creeping faults warn of impending earthquakes?
Earthquakes strike out of nowhere — one minute everything is perfectly calm, and the next minute, the ground shakes violently and buildings …
January 5, 2012
Comet finished off North American big game animals, cooled the planet?
Fires from a comet shower may have killed off the big game in North America about 13,000 years ago, scientists say. Those extinctions have long …
January 5, 2012
Chemical clues reveal ancient geography
Reconstructing the history of supercontinents requires careful detective work. A variety of geological processes wipes the evidence clean, like a …
January 5, 2012
Blogging on EARTH: South Sudan secedes - what does that mean for its oil?
Today, South Sudan is voting on whether to secede from North Sudan. Although all votes have not been counted, signs point to the South becoming …
January 5, 2012
Bacteria back from the brink
Thousand- and million-year-old microbes found living in salt crystals: Could they also exist on other planets? In 1993, “Jurassic Park” thrilled …
January 5, 2012
Ancient meteorites reveal early magnetic fields
Even before the birth of the planets, our solar system was hardly a lonely place. Small rocky bodies, called planetesimals, filled the inner …
January 5, 2012
Alaska's Mt. Redoubt erupts at last
Blogging on EARTH After months of threatening and rumbling, Mount Redoubt finally erupted late Sunday night. Redoubt began to exhibit increasing …
January 5, 2012
AGU: Mount St. Helens has gone back to sleep
SAN FRANCISCO — After more than three and a half years of continuous eruption, Mount St. Helens in Washington quieted earlier this year. …
January 5, 2012
Afghanistan's mineral wealth
Blogging on EARTH On Monday, a spokesman for Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai, Waheed Omar, told reporters that the USGS survey of …
January 5, 2012
A tale of two rocks: Moon-like rocks right next door
Lunar exploration is once again in full swing. Japan’s Kaguya and India’s Chandrayaan-1 satellites are currently in orbit around the moon. …