Scientists measuring the risk of severe earthquakes that could bring havoc to southern California warn of the dangers of the San Andreas and San Jacinto faults rupturing together. Data suggests that they may have ruptured together in the past leading scientists to call for a risk assessment review.
Three senior U.S. military officials have confirmed that North Korea have lost contact with one of its submarines this week. According to U.S. spy satellites, ships and aircraft have monitored the situation over the past week, and observed that the North Korean navy have been struggling to find the missing sub. Usni.org reports: “About week ago it went missing and the speculation is that it sank,” the official told USNI News.
Scientists in Japan have discovered a new species of bacteria that can digest and breakdown the common plastic known as PET or polyethylene terephthalate. PET is considered to be a major environmental hazard because it is highly resistant to breakdown CBS News reports: An estimated 342 million tons of plastic are produced annually worldwide, and currently, only about 14 percent is collected for recycling, according to the World Economic Forum.
Cern scientists working at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have said that they may have discovered a new particle that appears to defy the laws of physics. Scientists say they may have found a fifth fundamental force in nature that is six times heavier than the Higgs boson particle. Ancient-code.com reports: According to researchers, further testing is required which is why more ‘collisions’ will commence next month in order to obtain new data. Scientists believe they will have either the ultimate confirmation or refutation of its existence by summer of 2016.
An ice arch 70-meters high and 250 meters wide had a spectacular collapse in Patagonia on Thursday. The natural display occurs once every few years and was captured on film at the tip of a glacier in southern Argentina. Phys.org reports: Thousands of tourists had gathered at the Perito Moreno glacier hoping to see the collapse of the pale blue bridge that had formed between the glacier and the shore of Argentino lake.