Science

It’s Landsat Week [Landsat Week]

This Monday marked the 40th birthday of a joint venture of NASA and the USGS: Landsat. documenting changes to the… Read More

2012-07-24

Greener cities = Greener cities!

Polution in the city still is hazardous. Especially nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and microscopic particulate matter (PM) exceed those levels and… Read More

2012-07-24

Happy Birthday Landsat!

Since yesterday was my birthday I am particularly happy to proclaim: ?Happy 40th Birthday Landsat!? Landsat is a series of… Read More

2012-07-23

On the trails of Roald Amundsen

On the trails of Roald Amundsen and Robert F. Scott. Antarctica is a fascinating continent. Covered in ice and snow… Read More

2012-07-17

Awesome thin-sections

When looking at rocks, we have one obvious problem. Most rocks are rather opaque. So when you want to analyze… Read More

2012-07-14

Jurassic Pork

For most of us this might be more on the humorous side of science. But actually studying the mating habits… Read More

2012-07-13

Batman ends?

Some men just want to watch the world burn. For many batman is a childhood hero. But just as the… Read More

2012-07-10

Is it a bird, is it a plane, is it a meteor?

I first saw this photo on the telegraph. It was a story on a meteorite crashing into the ocean just… Read More

2012-07-04

Start to the Earth Scientist’s Periodic Table of Elements and its Ions

Probably you've seen the Periodic Table of Heavy Metal over at IFLS. http://on.fb.me/M8CJrh Although I'm quite a metal enthusiast, I… Read More

2012-06-28

Geoflow 2 – Geophysics in Space!

How can we image the Earth's interior when the deepest drillhole is 12 thousand meters deep? Right, we go into… Read More

2012-06-26