Today’s cataclysmic climate change-fueled disasters are scary enough even when we understand the root causes. Prehistoric cultures unfortunately didn’t have this luxury, and often responded dramatically to such changes. In northern Peru, archaeological evidence indicates local societies sometimes even turned to mass human sacrifices in an attempt to stop destructive flooding from events like El
We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learn more › It’s getting cold out, which makes me want to hunker down at home and spend some time with little plastic bricks. The current sale in Walmart’s LEGO shop runs from tubs of Classic bricks for little
On a cool November morning, low clouds traced the branching valleys of the Appalachian Plateau and the Cumberland River. By afternoon, they had faded, leaving clear skies over the autumn landscape. The change is visible in this pair of images from November 8, 2026. The MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) on NASA’s Terra satellite acquired the left image
Explanation: Sometimes Saturn disappears. It doesn’t really go away, of course — it just disappears from our view when Earth’s Moon moves in front. Such a Saturnian eclipse, more formally called an occultation, was visible in early 2025 along a small swath of Earth — from Greenland through central Europe and into northern Africa. The featured image is a digital fusion of three images, the first of just Saturn before it disappeared, and then
Written by Susanne P. Schwenzer, Professor of Planetary Mineralogy at The Open University, UK Earth planning date: Friday, Oct. 23, 2026 As regular readers of this blog will know, we returned to the area where we found disc shaped inclusions in the rocks, which we interpreted as potential crystals. If they are indeed crystals, and
By Remington Free, Operations Systems Engineer, NASA-JPL Earth planning date: Friday, Oct. 30, 2026 Today’s plan covered 3 sols, 5060, 5061, and 5062, as we take a few recharging sols before getting back to our normal drilling activities. As you may know if you have been following the blog closely, we are in the middle