Monthly Archives: August 2010

Greenland Glacier Calves Ice Island Four Times the Size of Manhattan

Posted on August 8, 2010 by Rashid Faridi

A University of Delaware researcher reports that an “ice island” four times the size of Manhattan has calved from Greenland’s Petermann Glacier. The last time the Arctic lost such a large chunk of ice was in 1962.Satellite imagery of this … Continue reading →

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Alfred Wegner’s Great Contribution

Posted on August 6, 2010 by Rashid Faridi

Alfred Wegener did something that many of us only dream of doing. He had wanted to elaborate on an opinon of Earth that was totally out there and tried to prove it! He was one of the many scientist who … Continue reading →

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Evolution of Frogs, Rise of Himalayas and Rearrangement of Southeast Asia

Posted on August 6, 2010 by Rashid Faridi

The evolution of a group of muscled frogs scattered throughout Asia is telling geologists about the sequence of events that led to the rise of the Himalayas and the Tibetan plateau starting more than 55 million years ago.  Rearrangement of … Continue reading →

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First Time Ever, Scientists Watch an Atom’s Electrons Moving in Real Time

Posted on August 5, 2010 by Rashid Faridi

In a path breaking discovery ,an international team of scientists led by groups from the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (MPQ) in Garching, Germany, and from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of … Continue reading →

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