Origins Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security Regolith Explorer, or OSIRIS-REx mission, the first mission to sample an asteroid, was launched from Cape Canaveral on September 8. The launching rocket, an Atlas V 411, reached supersonic speed (video @ 01:10).
Author: Ibrahim El Merehbi
Bacteria Breaking Antibiotic Environments
StandardThe video below by researchers at the Harvard Medical School and Technion–Israel Institute of Technology shows bacteria break zones of ever increasing concentrations of antibiotics hence demonstrates how bacteria becomes “impervious to drugs”. They are able to
In a creative stroke inspired by Hollywood wizardry, scientists from Harvard Medical School and Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have designed a simple way to observe how bacteria move as they become impervious to drugs. [2]
A Seismological Journey Inside the Earth
VideoA Seismological Journey Inside the Earth – From Plate Tectonics to Deep Earth Dynamics
2016 IRIS/SSA Distinguished Lecturer
Caroline Beghein, U.C. Los Angeles
Deepest part of the Ocean
StandardThe deepest part in Earth’s oceanic crust is the Mariana Trench which is a located in the western Pacific ocean east of the Mariana islands near the Philippines and Japan. The trench is the location where two tectonic plates meet (converge), the pacific and Philippines plates. The Challenger Deep is its deepest point to which four descents have been made to. Its reaches a reaches a depth of about 11 km.

Location of Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench in the western pacific ocean.
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