Menorca (Catalan: məˈnɔɾkə, Spanish: meˈnoɾka) or Minorca (English: /mɪˈnɔːrkə/ min-OR-kə; from Latin: Insula Minor, lit. ‘smaller island’, later Minorica), an island of the Balearic Islands provincia (province) and comunidad autónoma (autonomous community), Spain. Situa.....
Focusing on digitizing the country’s 60 million small businesses, Indonesian startup BukuWarung announced today that it has raised new funds from Rocketship.vc and Indonesian retailers. The amount was undeclared, but sources say it has brought in $20 million in total funding for BukuWarung .....
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Red beryl is a one-source gemstone that is extremely rare. It is a red variety of beryl. It was first described in 1904 for an occurrence, its type locality, at Maynard’s Claim (Pismire Knolls), Thomas Range, Juab County, Utah. The gemstone gets its rich color from trace amounts of manganes.....
The largest island in the province of the Balearic Islands (province) and comunidad autónoma (autonomous community), Spain, is Mallorca (Catalan: məˈʎɔɾkə, Spanish: maˈʎoɾka) or Majorca (English: /məˈjɔːrkə, -ˈdʒɔːr-/ mə-YOR-kə, -JOR-), an ancient (Latin) Balearis Major, o.....
Researchers claim that the aircraft’s flying intercontinental routes are failing to drive the wind to their full potential, spending more money than necessary and emitting more greenhouse gases. Better use of satellite data can reduce the environmental costs of air travel. The fact that a g.....
In the dark depths of the Pacific Ocean, next to a volcano beneath a piping heat, about 300 new lifeforms have been discovered, a team of international researchers has found hundreds of microbial organisms living in the warm hydroelectric vents of a deep-sea volcano in northeastern New Zealand, a.....
Shatter cones are distinctive cone or fan-shaped features in rocks, with radiating fracture lines that resemble a horsetail. These are rare geological features that are only known to form in the bedrock beneath meteorite impact craters or underground nuclear explosions. They are found in only two.....
Smoky quartz is a gray, translucent version of quartz. The Smoky Quartz crystal is a grounding stone known for its ability to help you move on from difficult or painful experiences. It is a form of Quartz, one of the most common and popular crystals in nature. Some types of Smoky Quartz are very .....
Impactite is a glassy or crystalline material composed of slag and meteoric materials, produced by the impact of a meteorite striking the earth. It is rock created or modified by one or more impacts of a meteorite. Since impactites consist primarily of deformed terrestrial material they are predo.....
Quartzolite is an igneous rock composed essentially of primary quartz (60% to 100%), e.g., a quartz dike, segregation mass, or inclusion inside or outside its parent rock. It is also known as, silexite, is an intrusive igneous rock, in which the mineral quartz is more than 90% of the rock’s.....
The Cape of Good Hope (Afrikaans: Kaap die Goeie Hoop (ˌkɑːp di ˌχujə ˈɦuəp); Dutch: Kaap de Goede Hoop (ˌkaːb də ˌɣudə ˈɦoːp); Portuguese: Cabo da Boa Esperança (ˈkaβu ðɐ ˈβoɐ (ɨ)ʃpɨˈɾɐ̃sɐ)), a rugged promontory at the southern end of the Cape Peninsula, in the .....