Around 120 million years ago, the earth experienced an extreme environmental disruption that choked oxygen from its oceans.
Earth Sciences
Dec 21, 2020
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Michigan State University (MSU) researchers have discovered that one of the most important reactions in the universe can get a huge and unexpected boost inside exploding stars known as supernovae.
General Physics
Dec 02, 2020
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Massive explosions of energy happening thousands of light-years from Earth may have left traces in our planet's biology and geology, according to new research by University of Colorado Boulder geoscientist Robert Brakenridge.
Astronomy
Nov 11, 2020
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Man-made global heating has long been presented as a relatively simple chain of cause and effect: humans disrupt the carbon cycle by burning fossil fuels, thereby increase the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere, which ...
Environment
Oct 06, 2020
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Streams in areas converted to oil palm have different top predators to those flowing through intact forests, affecting stream food webs.
Ecology
Sep 25, 2020
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Corals precipitate their calcareous skeletons (calcium carbonate) from seawater. Over thousands of years, vast coral reefs form due to the deposition of this calcium carbonate. During precipitation, corals prefer carbonate ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 10, 2020
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A team of researchers from Sweden, the U.S., Poland and the U.K. has found evidence that suggests the wealth gap in human communities goes back at least 6,600 years. In their paper published in the journal Antiquity, the ...
Death Valley doesn't seem like the most ideal place to ride out rising temperatures amid a changing climate. But for the desert plants that live there, it's home—and they face the choice to adapt or die.
Ecology
Jul 27, 2020
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Corn cultivation spread from Mesoamerica to what is now the American Southwest by about 4000 B.C., but how and when the crop made it to other parts of North America is still a subject of debate. In a new study, scientists ...
Archaeology
May 14, 2020
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Scientists at Caltech and Occidental College have discovered a methane-fueled symbiosis between worms and bacteria at the bottom of the sea, shedding new light on the ecology of deep-sea environments.
Ecology
Apr 04, 2020
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