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Remember how Wile E. Coyote, in his obsessive pursuit of the Road Runner, would fall off a cliff? The hapless predator ran straight out off the edge, stopped in midair as only an animated character could, looked beneath him in an eye-popping moment of truth, and plummeted straight down into a puff of dust. Splat! Four decades ago, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology computer... Read More...

The evidence for 'Planet X' - the mysterious hypothesised planet on the edge of our solar system - has taken a new turn thanks to the mathematics of a noted astronomer.Rodney Gomes, an astronomer at the National Observatory of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro, says the irregular orbits of small icy bodies beyond Neptune imply that a planet four times the size of Earth... Read More...

Catastrophic nuclear accidents such as the core meltdowns in Chernobyl and Fukushima are more likely to happen than previously assumed. Based on the operating hours of all civil nuclear reactors and the number of nuclear meltdowns that have occurred, scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz have calculated that such events may occur once every 10 to 20 years (based on... Read More...

Come tornado season, meteorologist Joshua Wurman spends his life on the road, zooming down highways in search of thunderstorms. This summer, he and his colleagues will turn nomad to launch a first-of-its-kind program aimed at exploring tornado winds — not from the outside but from deep within the tornado vortex.... Read More...

Citizens of British Columbia have just completed Zombie Preparedness Week. This interlude of low-cost, deadpan merriment had a serious purpose however: a community ready for assault from the living dead would also be primed to survive earthquake (earthquakes.html), wildfire (gsearch.html?cx=partner-pub-7074525156245778%3Af7anyujzneg cof=FORID%3A10 ie=ISO-8859-1 q=wildfire sa=Search siteurl=www.armageddononline.org%2Fnatural-disasters.html ref=www.armageddononline.org%2F), catastrophic flood (flooding.html), windstorm or lethal pandemic (pandemic.html). No society is free from natural disasters (natural-disasters.html) – the... Read More...

With the way that things are heading in this country, it is not surprising that there are approximately 3 million preppers in the United States today. What is surprising is that there are not more people prepping. The economy is rapidly falling to pieces, the national debt is absolutely soaring, the earth is becoming increasingly unstable, a major war could erupt in the Middle East at any time,... Read More...

Tammy Niederhelman thought that nothing could be worse than the nightmares. What could be more wrenching than a dream in which your 12-year-old son is screaming for help and you cannot reach him?A nightmare based on reality. On 22 May 2011 Niederhelman was at work in the intensive care unit of Freeman hospital in Joplin, Missouri, toward the end of her nursing shift, when it was... Read More...

Amazing must see pictures from the 2012 solar eclipse. CLICK HERE! (eclipse-japan-pics.html) Read More...

A new NASA survey has pinned down the number of asteroids that could pose a collision threat to Earth in what scientists say is the best estimate yet of the potentially dangerous space rocks. The survey found there are likely 4,700 potentially hazardous asteroids, plus or minus 1,500 space rocks, that are larger than 330 feet (100 meters) wide and in orbits that occasionally... Read More...

Aftershocks continued to be felt in northern Italy on Sunday after a strong earthquake in the early hours killed at least four, injured more than 50 and reduced historic churches and castle towers to rubble.The epicentre of the quake, which the US Geological Survey recorded at magnitude 6.0, was 3.2 miles below ground, north of Bologna in the Emilia-Romagna region, and was felt across Italy, from... Read More...

If you're not lucky enough to live in the path of the May 20 ring of fire solar eclipse, you can still watch the spectacular event online. Several different organizations will broadcast live footage of the solar eclipse Sunday, as seen through telescopes in various locations around the world. Viewers can track the eclipse as it moves from East Asia, crosses the... Read More...

More than a year after a devastating earthquake and tsunami triggered a massive nuclear disaster, experts are warning that Japan isn't out of the woods yet and the worst nuclear storm the world has ever seen could be just one earthquake away from reality. The troubled Reactor 4 at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant is at the centre of this potential catastrophe. Reactor 4 --... Read More...

The first tropical storm of the hurricane season formed Saturday off the coast of South Carolina with top winds of 60 mph (97 kph), but it wasn't threatening land. Forecasters said early Saturday evening that Tropical Storm Alberto was centered about 130 miles (209 kilometers) east of Charleston, S.C.No coastal watches or warnings were in effect, but forecasters said they may have to... Read More...

Douglas McCauley and Paul DeSalles did not set out to discover one of the longest ecological interaction chains ever documented. But that's exactly what they and a team of researchers -- all current or former Stanford students and faculty -- did in a new study published in Scientific Reports.Their findings shed light on how human disturbance of the natural world may lead to widespread, yet... Read More...

Civil Protection Authorities of Veracruz seeking in the mountainous area north of the state of an object that fell from the sky at about 10 and half of Friday night. Early reports indicate that the impact could be in the community belonging to San Jose Chicharrín Atenco Puebla or in Martinez de la Torre or Tlapacoyan, Veracruz side. However,... Read More...

Mysterious small tremors in the most earthquake-prone areas on Earth may be the cause of surprisingly large tsunamis, researchers say. These findings might also shed light on the huge tsunami generated by the disastrous magnitude 9.0 quake that hit Japan (gsearch.html?cx=partner-pub-7074525156245778%3Af7anyujzneg cof=FORID%3A10 ie=ISO-8859-1 q=japan+earthquake sa=Search siteurl=www.armageddononline.org%2Fworth-earthquake-in-history.html ref=www.armageddononline.org%2FSearch%2Fnewest-first.html%3Fsearchphrase%3Dexact%26searchword%3Dworst%2Bearthquakes%26submit%3DSearch)in 2011. Nearly all of the 10 largest recorded earthquakes (worth-earthquake-in-history.html)on Earth happened... More...

A compact area of low pressure off the coast of the Carolinas is being monitored for the potential for tropical or subtropical development.As of noon Saturday, the center of the low was about 120 miles southeast of Myrtle Beach, S.C. While the low is currently not tropical, an area of rain and thunderstorms has been spiraling rather tightly around the low-pressure center... Read More...

Pollution is warming the atmosphere through summer thunderstorms, a new study suggests. How much the warming effect of these clouds offsets the cooling that other clouds provide is not yet clear. Pollution particles in the air strengthen thunderstorm clouds, causing their anvil-shaped tops to spread out high in the atmosphere and capture heat — especially at night. Global climate models don't see this effect... Read More...

The oft-disaster-battered island of Sumatra may have yet another threat to add to the roster of natural phenomena that afflict the Indonesian island: colossal volcanic eruptions. Although Sumatra residents are likely well-acquainted with the string of volcanoes that line the Indian Ocean island's western coastline, new research has revealed that some of these... Read More...

And the heat goes on. Forecasters predict toasty temperatures will stretch through the summer in the U.S. And that's a bad sign for wildfires in the West.The forecast for June through August calls for warmer-than-normal weather for about three-quarters of the nation, the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration said Thursday.The warmth is expected south of a line stretching from middle New Jersey to southern Idaho. Only tiny portions... More...