Place: Village north of Madrid (Spain).
Date: 5/16/10
My neighbour, a musician, was going to Madrid to perform at a concert. He noticed he had forgotten his keys inside his house so he left his double bass resting against his car and came inside to get them. When he returned, like 20 seconds later, someone had stolen the instrument.
Tiny variations in the isotopic composition of silver in meteorites and Earth rocks are helping scientists put together a timetable of how our planet was assembled beginning 4.568 billion years ago. The new study, published in the journal Science, indicates that water and other key volatiles may have been present in at least some of Earth's...
