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While Jason II (a Remotely Operated Vehicle) is diving along the Ring of Fire - atNW Rota1 Brimstone Pit in the Mariana Arc- scientists unexpectedly s...
Pyroclastic flows, originating from an erupting volcano, travel and are exceedingly dangerous. In this image, we see a pyroclastic flow at Mt. St. Hel...
As more and more whales were depleted in the North Atlantic, whaling men traveled to the Pacific. Near the equator, they had found many sperm whales i...
Did you know that whale oil helped to fuel the Industrial Revolution - and - that oil from a Sperm Whale comes mostly from its very large head?
Several investigations reveal why Deepwater Horizon exploded, leading to the loss of 11 crew members.
Money in the bank doesn't always mean the same thing to people. Stone money is stored outside, not in a locked bank vault, on the Micronesian island o...
As shown in this map, the western shore of the Dead Sea is located in Israel while the eastern shore is in Jordan.
The Gulf of Mexico was once larger than it is today. Algae, growing along its perimeter, provided the first ingredients for the oil formation which oc...
Wilhelm Conrad (Konrad) Roentgen (1845-1923) and his wife (Anna Bertha Roentgen) lived upstairs from the Physics Institute at the University of Wurzbu...
This nineteenth-century illustration depicts William Parsons’ 3-foot telescope which the astronomer, also known as Lord Rosse, had constructed i...
William Parsons, an avid astronomer, owned the world's largest telescope of the 19th century. Measuring 72-inches, the huge telescope was known as the...
This image of a comet appears in a 1902 work edited by Edward Singleton (E.S.) Holden entitled Wonders of Earth, Sea and Sky. It is Volume XI of the Y...
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