Tiny crystals capture millions of years of mountain range history: Geologist excavates the Himalayas with a microscope
The Himalayas stand as Earth's highest mountain range, possibly the highest ever. How did it form? Why is it so tall?
The Himalayas stand as Earth's highest mountain range, possibly the highest ever. How did it form? Why is it so tall?
Earth Sciences
Apr 10, 2024
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After a journey of seven years and nearly 4 billion miles, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft landed gently in the Utah desert on the morning of Sept. 24, 2023, with a precious payload. The spacecraft brought back a sample from ...
Space Exploration
Oct 24, 2023
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The Japanese government intends to discharge all 1.34 million tons of wastewater from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, an operation that began on 24 August 2023. Presumably, it also plans to discharge the wastewater ...
Environment
Aug 28, 2023
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About 400,000 years ago, large parts of Greenland were ice-free. Scrubby tundra basked in the sun's rays on the island's northwest highlands. Evidence suggests that a forest of spruce trees, buzzing with insects, covered ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 23, 2023
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As part of NASA's regular cadence of robotic lunar missions through Artemis, the agency has selected a new scientific payload to establish the age and composition of hilly terrain created by volcanic activity on the near ...
Space Exploration
Jul 17, 2023
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Just a few hundred feet from where we are sitting is a large metal chamber devoid of air and draped with the wires needed to control the instruments inside. A beam of particles passes through the interior of the chamber silently ...
General Physics
Nov 15, 2022
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Nobel laureate Otto Hahn is credited with the discovery of nuclear fission. Fission is one of the most important discoveries of the 20th century, yet Hahn considered something else to be his best scientific work.
General Physics
May 24, 2022
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Scientists have synthesized tetrafluoride powders of four radioactive elements—thorium, uranium, neptunium, and plutonium. These four elements are actinides, a series of heavy and radioactive elements. Tetrafluoride powders ...
Materials Science
Oct 8, 2021
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A team of researchers from Sandia, Lawrence Berkeley and Pacific Northwest national laboratories tested a "sponge-like" mineral that can "soak up" uranium at a former uranium mill near Rifle, Colorado.
Materials Science
Jun 9, 2021
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A new method developed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory proves one effort's trash is another's valuable isotope.
General Physics
Mar 11, 2021
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