Triple S - Science for School Students

A whale caught by Alaska’s Inupiat people in a traditional hunt has been found to have pieces of a 19th century harpoon lodged in its head.
The fragments of a “bomb lance”, manufactured in the 1880’s, show that the bullhead whale could be up to 130 years old.
The Inupiat people, who are legally allowed to hunt […]

Measuring a river is not as simple as it may sound - as defining exactly where a river starts and ends is often not easy. It has been long believed that the Nile is the longest river in the world, although the Amazon has the largest volume of water.
But a group of researchers now […]

Do black holes really exist, and what exactly are they?
Phil Plait, over at the Bad Astronomy Blog, says:
Black holes are weird. Really weird.
But you know this. Infinitely small, with huge gravity, warpers of time and space; they’re simply cool to astronomer and the public alike.
He then goes on to explain black holes in […]

Scientists are using a British robotic submarine to explore an underwater canyon the size of the Grand Canyon, off the coast of Portugal.
The Nazare Canyon, which is up to 5 kilometres deep at some points, is finally revealing its secrets: giant cliffs, cold water corals, and a thriving deep sea ecosystem.
Robot sub explores giant canyon […]

A glacial lake in the south of Chile has disappeared - puzzling scientists as to how and why.
The two-hectare, remote lake was last reported as normal by rangers in March. But last month, it completely disappeared, leaving a dry crater and some stranded chunks of ice.
Scientists theorize that an earthquake caused a fissure to open […]

Scientists have discovered fossil evidence which they say proves that some dinosaurs were able to swim.
A 15 metre track across the Cameros Basin in Spain, once a vast lake, shows claw marks left by left by a large, bipedal, carnivorous dinosaur about 125 million years ago as it was swimming in 3 metre deep water.
Tracks […]