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The Battle of Waterloo. Painting by William Sadler (Wikimedia Commons)

Did a Volcanic Eruption Lead to Napoleon’s Defeat at Waterloo?

August 24, 2018

A British scientist thinks a volcanic eruption may have led to Napoleon Bonaparte’s crushing defeat at Waterloo, in what is now Belgium, on June 18, 1815. Historians say heavy rains fell on Napoleon’s troops the night before the big battle, causing the ground to become very muddy and soggy. With these miserable conditions, Napoleon’s artillery […]

This is Ecuador's Tungurahua, or “Throat of Fire”, volcano as it erupts on August 24, 2014. (Reuters)’s another of this week’s active volcanoes. This is Ecuador's Tungurahua, or “Throat of Fire”, volcano as it erupts on August 24, 2014. (Reuters)

Plenty of Advanced Warning for Supervolcano Eruption

May 3, 2018

There have been reports in the media that a couple of supervolcanoes, such as Yellowstone in the US and Taupo in New Zealand, that are saying are on the verge of eruption. The United State Geological Survey (USGS) says, however, that such an eruption at Yellowstone is very unlikely in the next thousand or even 10,000 years. […]

Artist’s impression of the cool red star and gas-giant planet NGTS-1b against the Milky Way (University of Warwick/Mark Garlick)

Hot Monster Planet; No Fountain of Youth; Sunscreen Snow on Exoplanet

November 3, 2017

Hot Monster Planet Found Orbiting Small Star British astronomers say they discovered a “monster” planet orbiting a tiny star, but, according to planet formation theory, the planet should not even exist. The theory suggests a planet of its size could not be formed around such a small star. Located about 600 light years from Earth, […]

A visitor to the Mission Mars exhibition presented by Russia’s Newton Park Interactive Museum of Science together with the children's techno-park Quantorium looks at ears of wheat grown without soil, by the hydroponic method without soil on 10/26/17. (Reuters)

October 2017 Science Images

October 31, 2017

Zika Kills Cells Crucial to Brain Development; Did Volcanoes Cause Mars to Tilt?

March 7, 2016

Study: Zika Virus Infects and Kills Fetal Cerebral Cortex Cells This birth defect can cause babies to be born with an unusually small head and inhibited brain development. The scientists, who made their findings based on experiments performed with lab-grown human stem cells, discovered that the Zika virus is attracted to and infects the cells […]

The shimmering colors visible in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image, released 8/24/15, shows off the remarkable complexity of the PN M2-9 Twin Jet Nebula which is also known as Minkowski's Butterfly, the Wings of a Butterfly Nebula or simply Butterfly Nebula. The luminous nebula is about 2,100 light-years away from Earth. Unlike ordinary planetary nebulae which has one star at their center, this is a bipolar nebula which has two stars from a binary star system. (ESA/Hubble & NASA)

Science Images of the Month – August 2015

August 31, 2015

This cross-section illustration - cutting southwest-northeast - under Yelowstone depicts the supervolcano's "plumbing system" as revealed by recent seismic imaging. (Hsin-Hua Huang, University of Utah)

Giant Magma Reservoir Found Beneath Yellowstone Supervolcano

April 23, 2015

Yellowstone National Park’s many geothermal features, including its estimated 10,000 hot springs and geysers, draw millions of visitors each year. There’s good reason why the approximately 8,983 square km park has such a high level of geothermal activity. You see, the park sits atop one of the world’s largest active volcanic systems. According to the […]

Early in Mars history water formed an open-basin lake, filling the crater, forming a delta, and breaching the lower rim as water flowed to lower elevations (blue). (NASA/James Dickson, Brown University)

Volcanic Activity Linked to A Warm and Wet Ancient Mars

November 17, 2014

Exploratory missions to Mars, such as NASA’s Curiosity Rover, have provided more and more evidence that Mars at one time was warm enough for water to flow on its surface. Now a new study published in the journal “Nature Geoscience” has found that those ancient, warm periods on the Red Planet probably took place in […]

Science Images for September, 2014

September 29, 2014

New Research Provides Insight into When a Volcano Will Erupt

February 17, 2014

New research by scientists from at the University of California-Davis and Oregon State University may make it easier to predict when a volcano is ready to erupt. A new study published recently in the journal Nature says that before an eruption, the volcanic magma – or the molten/semi molten rock under the volcano – must […]

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