The real snow and all that comes with it really got us in the winter mood for this last weekend before Christmas. During the day Sunday, a light but steady snow will fall, generating accumulations of less than a centimeter. Centre-du-Québec, for its part, will be entitled to larger accumulations. The Charlevoix region is on … Read more
This article is taken from the monthly Sciences et Avenir – La Recherche n°911, dated January 2023. A mysterious object crashed into the Pacific Ocean in 2014, 200 kilometers off the coast of Papua New Guinea. Named CNEOS-2014-01-08, it is only 45 cm wide and would have arrived at Earth at the very high speed … Read more
Spectacular videos captured a meteor lighting up the sky over Niagara Falls and the CN Tower in Toronto. The “less than one meter” object, called #C8FF042, turned into a fireball, the European Space Agency confirmed. “A three-foot object hit the sky above Niagara Falls and turned into a harmless fireball,” the agency posted on social … Read more
About 250 million years ago, a single landmass emerged from the ocean: Pangea. Over time, pieces broke off and pursued their own destinies—eventually becoming the continents we know today. However, they are not static: the continents move under the influence of the plates, creating volcanism and earthquakes Pangea is not the only supercontinent that has … Read more