Water flowing over Niagara Falls
Camera zooms out from a rotating colourised 3D model created from a transmission electron micrograph (TEM) revealing the ultrastructural appearance of a single measles virus particle, or virion. Measles is an airborne disease and spreads easily through the coughs and sneezes of infected people. It infects about 20 million people a year, primarily in undeveloped regions of Africa and Asia. Once thought to have been eliminated in the U.S., measles has reappeared due to undervaccination attributed to public misinformation.
Zealandia continent if it were above sea level
Animation of the Earth showing the continent Zealandia next to modern-day Australia, as if it were above sea level. Zealandia is now largely submerged apart from New Zealand, New Caledonia and some small islands. The small continent broke off Gondwana around 84 million years ago, in the Cretaceous period. It is thought to have been completely submerged by 23 million years ago, before the existing land broke the surface again. The submerged continental crust extends northwest and southeast from New Zealand.
Zealandia continent if it were above sea level
Animation of the rotating Earth, showing the continent Zealandia next to modern-day Australia, as if it were above sea level. Zealandia is now largely submerged apart from New Zealand, New Caledonia and some small islands. The small continent broke off Gondwana around 84 million years ago, in the Cretaceous period. It is thought to have been completely submerged by 23 million years ago, before the existing land broke the surface again. The submerged continental crust extends northwest and southeast from New Zealand.