Out of this world: 555.55-carat black diamond lands in Dubai
Auction house Sotheby's Dubai has unveiled a diamond that's literally from out of this world.
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Jan 17, 2022
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News tagged with carbon isotopes
'Heavy' hydrogen stabilizes drugs
Researchers at the University of Bonn have presented a method that allows the heavier hydrogen "brother" deuterium to be introduced specifically into many different molecules. The deuterated compounds obtained in this way ...
Biochemistry
Dec 23, 2021
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Coal creation mechanism uncovered
The mechanism behind one of the first stages of coal creation may not be what we thought it was, according to a team of researchers who found that microbes were responsible for coal formation and production of methane in ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 11, 2021
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High-precision geochronology reveals high-resolution Ediacaran timescale
Researchers led by Prof. Zhu Maoyan from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NIGPAS) and their collaborators from the UK, the USA, and Russia have proposed new radioisotopic ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 03, 2021
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Microbiology researchers further understanding of ocean's role in carbon cycling
Microbiology researchers at Oregon State University have shed new light on the mechanisms of carbon cycling in the ocean, using a novel approach to track which microbes are consuming different types of organic carbon produced ...
Environment
Oct 07, 2021
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Extreme volcanism did not cause the massive extinction of species in the late Cretaceous
A study published in the journal Geology rules out that extreme volcanic episodes had any influence on the massive extinction of species in the late Cretaceous. The results confirm the hypothesis that it was a giant meteorite ...
Paleontology & Fossils
Sep 20, 2021
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Degassing data suggests Mt. Etna began showing signs of pressure buildup months before 2018 eruption
A team of researchers from the Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, in Italy, has found evidence showing that magma pressure had begun building up deep in Mt. Etna's reservoir several months before the 2018 eruption. ...
Selenium may support deep microbial life in Earth's continental crust
International drilling efforts over the last decades into the seafloor have provided increasing evidence for the existence of an extensive deep biosphere below the seafloor. There, circulating fluids in the sub-seafloor deliver ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 27, 2021
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New tool factors effects of fossil-fuel emissions on ocean research
A newly developed tool will allow scientists to better gauge how centuries of fossil fuel emissions could be skewing the data they collect from marine environments.
Ecology
May 20, 2021
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Meteorite amino acids derived from substrates more widely available in the early solar system
Scientists have recreated the reaction by which carbon isotopes made their way into different organic compounds, challenging the notion that organic compounds, such as amino acids, were formed by isotopically enriched substrates. ...
Astrobiology
Apr 29, 2021
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