As glaciers melt and sea levels rise, threatening coastal cities, geologists are trying to predict the future by looking at what happened when sea levels rose in the past. Meanwhile, high levels of methane are showing up in the Arctic, and there’s a big danger that a huge rise of temperatures in the Arctic will destabilize huge amounts of methane currently frozen in the sea ice on the ocean floor.
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Babies only hours old are able to differentiate between sounds from their native language and a foreign language, they begin absorbing language while still in the womb.
Sensory and brain mechanisms for hearing are developed at 30 weeks, and a new study shows that unborn babies are listening to their mothers talk during the last 10 weeks of pregnancy, and at birth they can demonstrate what they’ve heard.
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When we could purchase something just as good for much less money? It’s a good question to ask ourselves as Valentine’s Day approaches.
Part of this has to do with how it makes us feel. There was a joke going around in newly-rich, post-Soviet Russia that went like this: One man shows another man his watch and brags about how much he paid for it. The other man replies, "I know where you can get the same thing for even MORE money!"
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If the world ends, will it be water (again) or fire? When volcanoes erupt, the devastation is short-lived, but violent. Magma creeps up through a crack in the Earth’s crust and mixes with water, setting off a series of explosions–as many as a few each hour for several weeks. When the action stops, a crater-topped, rock-filled fracture called a diatreme is left behind.
If volcanologists could understand how to predict these volcanoes, they could not only save lives, they could find DIAMONDS.
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