For the past year, NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has been traveling through a transition zone from a clay-rich region to one filled with a salty mineral called sulfate. While the science team targeted the clay-rich region and ...
Planetary Sciences
Jun 22, 2022
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One species of iconic moa was almost wiped out during the last ice age, according to recently published research. But a small population survived in a modest patch of forest at the bottom of New Zealand's South Island, and ...
Ecology
May 26, 2022
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What is it like to be on the surface of Mars or Venus? Or even further afield, such as on Pluto, or Saturn's moon Titan?
Astronomy
May 20, 2022
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Scientists have long wondered how Jupiter's innermost moon, Io, has meandering ridges as grand as any that can be seen in movies like "Dune." Now, a Rutgers research study has provided a new explanation of how dunes can form ...
Astronomy
Apr 19, 2022
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Deserts may seem lifeless and inert, but they are very much alive. Sand dunes, in particular, grow and move—and according to a decades long research project, they also breathe humid air.
Earth Sciences
Mar 30, 2022
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The self-organized and rhythmical shapes of sand waves/dunes and related physical mechanisms are always attractive to scientists. Massive studies have been deployed on the formation, dynamics, evolution of individual dunes ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 24, 2022
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Biological soil crusts are communities of cyanobacteria, fungi, lichens, and other living organisms that can bind grains together and reduce the susceptibility of soils to erosion by water or wind. Crusts dominated by cyanobacteria, ...
Ecology
Mar 18, 2022
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Nothing says springtime on Mars like defrosting dunes.
Planetary Sciences
Mar 17, 2022
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University of Chicago scientists have been able to create a new kind of quantum object at will in the laboratory: "domain walls."
Quantum Physics
Feb 11, 2022
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Thousands of migratory birds have failed to make their annual visit to Albania's western coast this winter, experts say, pointing to climate change, overfishing and urbanisation as likely factors.
Ecology
Feb 8, 2022
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