The Most Expensive Precious Metal: Rhodium – 5.5 Times More Valuable Than Gold

The Most Expensive Precious Metal: Rhodium – 5.5 Times More Valuable Than Gold

It is a very rare precious metal and is about 5.5 times more valuable than gold. Gold, due to its durability and attractive appearance, is one of the most expensive precious metals. But much more expensive than gold is another metal that you most likely have at home, and it is called rhodium, writes IFLScience. … Read more

Scientists Discover Hot Plumes on the Far Side of the Moon – CNN Indonesia

Scientists Discover Hot Plumes on the Far Side of the Moon – CNN Indonesia

CNN Indonesia Monday, 24 Jul 2023 19:10 WIB Hot plumes on the far side of the Moon were tracked. (NASA/ARC/MIT Archives) Jakarta, CNNIndonesia — Scientist found a big hot blob on the far side Moon which is relatively rare found outside the Earth. What phenomenon is this? The new study suggests the hot plumes may … Read more

The Mystery of the Moving Stones at Death Valley: Solved in 2014

The Mystery of the Moving Stones at Death Valley: Solved in 2014

Jakarta – At Racetrack Playa, a dry lake bed in Death Valley National Park in California, United States, there is a strange phenomenon that is hard to explain. The stones there can move and walk independently over a considerable distance. These rocks traverse the Death Valley area and leave trails that look stunning when viewed … Read more

Slow Sinking: The Threat of Land Subsidence and Sea Level Rise in New York City and Beyond

Slow Sinking: The Threat of Land Subsidence and Sea Level Rise in New York City and Beyond

New York City is sinking slowly but surely into the Atlantic Ocean. Researchers have recently shown that the city is getting 1 to 2 millimeters closer to sea level every year. Combined with sea level rise and intensified storms, this could increase the risk of devastating floods. “Most headlines say skyscrapers are the real problem, … Read more

The Geological Wonders of the Afar Depression: Exploring the Dabbahu Fissure and Continental Split in Ethiopia

The Geological Wonders of the Afar Depression: Exploring the Dabbahu Fissure and Continental Split in Ethiopia

Jakarta – For several days in September 2005, amidst a series of volcanic eruptions and hundreds of earthquakes, the land in northeastern Ethiopia ripped open. For millions of years, molten rock bubbles have seeped beneath the Earth in the Afar Depression. Over time, it came to the surface, split the ground and created a rift … Read more

New Research Reveals New York City is Sinking Due to Weight of Its Buildings, Increasing Flood Risk

Christian Garavaglia Meteored Argentine 27/05/2023 05:00 5 min New York currently ranks third in the world in terms of coastal flood risk. new research concluded that New York City is sinking in part because of the extraordinary weight of its soaring buildings, which aggravates the threat of flooding that the rise in sea level imposes … Read more

The Earth’s Core Is Behaving Strangely, Scientists Try to Dig Up Mysteries

Jakarta – Something strange is happening deep beneath our feet. Over the years, seismic studies have detected a number of anomalies occurring in the area between the Earth’s core and mantle, which are believed to be the result of processes within the mantle. A new study, published this week in Nature, suggests that this activity … Read more

Getting to Know the Eye of the Sahara, the Mysteries of Nature in the Middle of the Vast Sahara Desert

Friday, 10 February 2023 – 18:10 WIB LIVE Techno – The large eye-shaped circle in the middle of the Sahara Desert, Mauritania has been a fascination for scientists for decades. Because of its eye-like shape, the geological formation is named The Eye of Sahara or “Eye of the Sahara” and has a diameter of 40 … Read more

Mysterious White Clouds Keep Appearing Over This Region

Jakarta – The strip of ocean sandwiched between the islands of Florida and the Bahamas is one of the world’s most studied marine environments and an enduring center of geological mystery. Since at least the 1930s, scientists in the region have noticed strange white billowing clouds rising from the surface of seemingly serene turquoise water. … Read more