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– 201108geo picture blue river greenland

In the remote, icy expanse of northern Greenland, the onset of spring transforms the landscape into a surreal scene. Meltwater channels, born from rising temperatures, carve through the ice, creating striking, pure blue streams and lakes. These natural phenomena are both mesmerizing and alarming, highlighting the impacts of climate change. Expeditions, like Greenpeace’s in 2009, […]

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– 201203absolute zero

Since the start of the year, I’ve received quite a few questions regarding absolute temperatures – highest and lowest, so I decided to start a brief discussion around the two values, in which I will give the basic facts about them, so feel free to step in and add more info or questions. Absolute zero […]

– 201203North Korea Nuclear

The first breakthrough in the series of negotiations with North Korea has finally been made as the Asian country announced the suspension of its controversial nuclear program. Under the terms of this new deal, uranium enrichment and long-range ballistic-missile development in exchange for 240,000 tonnes of food aid from the United States. Furthermore, the agreement […]

– 201202headless chicken

Each year, billions of chickens are raised all over the world with the sole purpose of providing meat at the end of their couple of weeks-long lives. The animals are  forced to live in precarious conditions, thousands lined up next to each other, and are stuffed with nutrients designed to make them grow a lot […]

– 201201lego man

Canadian duo, Mathew Ho and Asad Muhammad, both only 17 years old, have managed to put the infamous Lego man, attached with the Canadian flag, into space. They managed to achieve this with extremely limited resources, using items bought off craiglist, and unlimited ingenuity. The plastic figurine was attached to a styrofoam box, which also contained […]

– 201201painting ants

Andrew Quitmeyer is a PhD student at Georgia Tech who recently devised a perfectly handy how-to video on painting ants for scientific experiments. Handy, that is, for all of you ant aficionados reading ZME Science that want to take things a bit further and selectively study your colony, maybe even add a bit of color. Yeah, […]

– 2011122012

So some of you are already in 2012, some are almost there, some are hours away – but regardless of where you are, ZME Science would like to thank you for being with us this past year – it’s been an amazing ride, and one that won’t be stopping any time soon – on the […]