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Great news everyone! Electroneum have just launched the long awaited Mobile Miner! A simple way to earn cryptocurrency from your smartphone... If you own an Android smart phone, then Electroneum is the

Continuation from a Previous blog post: As physical sedimentation is produced due to the deposition of fragments of eroded material, the shapes and sizes of the fragments, known as clasts, can tell us

In the world of theoretical computer science, P vs. NP is something of a mythical unicorn. It's become notorious, since it remains an unsolved problem. It basically asks this: If it is easy to check that

Two views of an unconformity in NW Scotland. Torridonian (late Proterozoic) sandstones overlie Archaean high- grade metamorphic rocks known as the Lewisian Gneisses. Uplift and erosion occurred after formation

Click Image to play video. (note: This animation has no audio track.) – The Open University Although many moons in the Solar System follow prograde orbits, there are some notable exceptions. The gas giant

Moons - Data Table Footnote: There are also inner moonlets and irregular outer moons that are not mentioned above. Jupiter has at least four inner moonlets and 59 irregular outer moons. Saturn has at least

1) Introduction Igneous rocks are defined as those rocks which have crystallised from a silicate melt (magma) either within the Earth or at the surface. If the magma cools at depth, slow cooling will occur

Car Orbiting Earth Credit: SpaceX . Explanation: Last week, a car orbited the Earth. The car, created by humans and robots on the Earth, was launched by the SpaceX Company to demonstrate the ability of

A Lecture I attended a few months ago! Found the video by the Geological Society of London! Copied Video's Description: Why Earth developed into the crucible of life, and Venus into a hostile wasteland

1) What is a mineral? A mineral is a naturally occurring inorganic crystalline substance, whose compositions are either fixed or vary between certain fixed limits. This excludes, for example, artificial

Image Credit: NASA, Lunar Orbiter 2; Inset: Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter ( Explanation: Could humans live beneath the surface of the Moon? This intriguing possibility was bolstered in 2009 when Japan's

Image Credit: NASA/SDO & the AIA, EVE, and HMI teams; Digital Composition: Peter L. Dove ( Explanation: An unusual type of solar eclipse occurred in 2012. Usually, it is the Earth's Moon that eclipses

The universe is the biggest and oldest thing we know. It contains all existing matter and space. And its origin marks the beginning of time as far as we understand it. We don’t know what made the formation

This is based on one of the lectures of Richard Feynman (1918–1988), a theoretical physicist and Nobel Prize winner, describing the process by which theory and practical studies are used together to make

New video by Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell. Sharing this as it's very interesting for all to know :) The first 688 people to use this link will get 20% off their annual membership: Finding alien life on a

Continuing my notes from the lectures i am attending for university, and sharing knowledge to all. Knowledge should be free. Aims of Lecture: (1) To introduce the basic nomenclature of astronomical objects

NGC 2261: Hubble's Variable Nebula Image Credit: Hubble, NASA, ESA; Data: Mark Clampin [ (NASA's GSFC); Processing & License: Judy Schmidt ( Explanation: What causes Hubble's Variable Nebula to vary?

Venus at Night in Infrared from Akatsuki Image Credit: JAXA, ISAS, DARTS; Processing & Copyright: Damia Bouic Explanation: Why is Venus so different from Earth? To help find out, Japan launched the

Image Source : Introduction The Earth is just over 4.5 billion years old. It is difficult to appreciate exactly the scale of this number. If the entire history of the Earth were compressed into 1 year

Physical Properties of the Earth The Earth is an oblate spheroid, being slightly flattened at the poles: Equatorial radius = 6378 km Polar radius = 6357 km These measurements are calculated on the assumption