Google Earth has many handy little features that your students can use even if they don’t have Google accounts. Without a Google account your students can customize the appearance of Google Earth, measure distances and areas, change the units of measurement, and share locations and Street Views with you. Of course, they can also use […]
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In the past half a decade, global rare earth metals market has been witnessing a turbulent state of affairs, with costs of rare earths going through the roof. An instance of the turmoil in this space can be aptly credited to China’s monopoly in rare earth production. Though short-lived, China’s extensive reduction of export quotas
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The Geological Society has revealed the winners of the 2019 Earth Science Week photography competition, ‘Geoscience is for everyone’ This week it’s Earth Science Week – an annual international celebration of the geology all around us. To kick things off, the Geological Society has revealed the winners of the 2019 Earth Science Week photography competition,
We can predict the arrival of just one of these objects with pinpoint accuracy (Picture: Getty) An asteroid could be on a collision course with Earth, the European Space Agency has announced. Cosmologists on the continent keep a list of all the most dangerous space rocks – and they have just added an object called
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Artist’s impression of a huge outburst shooting from the Milky Way’s core (Image: James Josephides/ Astro 3D) Earlier this week scientists announced that the nearest supermassive black hole to Earth erupted in an ‘cataclysmic’ explosion so dramatic it sent a huge gust of radiation ‘slicing’ through the Milky Way. Now an astronomer who led the
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NASA has revealed it is building a new space telescope to survey the sky for potentially hazardous asteroids that may be on a collision course with Earth. The infrared telescope, which is expected to cost $600 million (480 million), could reportedly launch as soon as 2025. It will enable the US space agency to find
A view of Minecraft Earth on Seattle’s Burke Gilman Trail. (GeekWire Photo / Joe Bergin) Microsoft will begin releasing the highly anticipated augmented reality mobile game Minecraft Earth in October, following several months of beta testing. Like the smash hit Pokémon Go, Minecraft Earth layers its universe over the real world, and that takes a
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Something mysterious happened nearly half a billion years ago that triggered one of the most important changes in the history of life on Earth. Suddenly, there was an explosion of species, with the biodiversity of invertebrate animals increasing from a very low level to something similar to what we see today. The most popular explanation
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Minecraft Earth is an upcoming game from Microsoft and Mojang, bringing the blocky create ’em up to augmented reality for Android and iOS devices. Microsoft has been testing the game in closed beta in a few countries around the world, but as revealed today during Minecon 2019, the game will begin a global public preview
Mean surface temperature change during the North American summer in 2019 compared to 1981-2010. NASA/GISS We’ve just sweltered through the the hottest July ever recorded, complete with extreme heatwaves, and today a landmark report by a conglomerate of climate research organizations demonstrates the planet is warming like never before. The new assessment, commissioned by the United
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