Isotopic similarities seen in materials that formed Earth, moon
Where did the materials that make up the Earth and moon come from—and when did they arrive?
Space Exploration
Jan 26, 2017
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News tagged with core
Humans, not climate change, wiped out Australian megafauna
New evidence involving the ancient poop of some of the huge and astonishing creatures that once roamed Australia indicates the primary cause of their extinction around 45,000 years ago was likely a result of humans, not climate ...
Archaeology
Jan 20, 2017
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Asteroid impacts could create niches for life, suggests Chicxulub crater study
Scientists studying the Chicxulub crater have shown how large asteroid impacts deform rocks in a way that may produce habitats for early life.
Earth Sciences
Nov 17, 2016
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Core sample taken from Lake Malawi reveals 1.3 million years of African history
A team of researchers with members from the U.S., Australia, Chile and The Netherlands has conducted a long-term study of core samples taken from the bottom of Lake Malawi back in 2005—in their paper published in the journal ...
Just what sustains Earth's magnetic field anyway?
Earth's magnetic field shields us from deadly cosmic radiation, and without it, life as we know it could not exist here. The motion of liquid iron in the planet's outer core, a phenomenon called a "geodynamo," generates the ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 1, 2016
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New study indicates Earth's inner core was formed 1 - 1.5 billion years ago
There have been many estimates for when the earth's inner core was formed, but scientists from the University of Liverpool have used new data which indicates that the Earth's inner core was formed 1 - 1.5 billion years ago ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 7, 2015
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More efficient memory-management scheme could help enable chips with thousands of cores
In a modern, multicore chip, every core—or processor—has its own small memory cache, where it stores frequently used data. But the chip also has a larger, shared cache, which all the cores can access.
Computer Sciences
Sep 10, 2015
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Chandra data suggest giant collision triggered 'radio phoenix'
Astronomers have found evidence for a faded electron cloud "coming back to life," much like the mythical phoenix, after two galaxy clusters collided. This "radio phoenix," so-called because the high-energy electrons radiate ...
Astronomy
Aug 27, 2015
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North–south climate divide: Researchers find 200-year lag between climate events in Greenland, Antarctica
A new study using evidence from a highly detailed ice core from West Antarctica shows a consistent link between abrupt temperature changes on Greenland and Antarctica during the last ice age, giving scientists a clearer picture ...
Earth Sciences
Apr 29, 2015
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Long-sought magnetic mechanism observed in exotic hybrid materials
Scientists have measured the subatomic intricacies of an exotic phenomenon first predicted more than 60 years ago. This so-called van Vleck magnetism is the key to harnessing the quantum quirks of topological insulators—hybrid ...
Condensed Matter
Apr 13, 2015
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