(Phys.org)—Rocks dating back 3.4 billion years from south-west Greenland's Isua mountain range have yielded valuable information about the structure of the Earth during its earliest stages of development. In these rocks, ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 9, 2012
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New work from a research team led by Carnegie's Anat Shahar contains some unexpected findings about iron chemistry under high-pressure conditions, such as those likely found in the Earth's core, where iron predominates and ...
Earth Sciences
Apr 28, 2016
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Two places on opposite sides of Earth may hold the secret to how the moon was born. NASA's twin Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) spacecraft are about to enter these zones, known as the L4 and L5 Lagrangian ...
Space Exploration
Apr 9, 2009
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New research from Florida State University and Rice University is providing a better estimate of the amount of carbon in the Earth's outer core, and the work suggests the core could be the planet's largest reservoir of that ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 19, 2021
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A chance find of an unstudied Antarctic sediment core has led University of Otago researchers to flip our understanding of how often ice ages occurred in Antarctica.
Earth Sciences
Dec 6, 2022
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Stony Brook University is leading a research project that focuses on the interplay between the evolution of the landscape, climate and fossil record of mammal evolution and diversification in the Western United States. A ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 6, 2022
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By applying new data and Princeton's supercomputers to the classic question of what lies beneath our feet, Princeton seismologist Jessica Irving and an international team of colleagues have developed a new model for the Earth's ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 27, 2018
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(Phys.org)—Earth's most recent shift to a warm climate began with intense summer sun in the Northern Hemisphere, the first pressure on a seesaw that tossed powerful forces between the planet's poles until greenhouse gases ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 7, 2013
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Scientists researching the origin of elements in our galaxy have new insights into how they are transported to Earth, thanks to a new study led by authors at the University of Hertfordshire in the U.K. and the Konkoly Observatory, ...
Planetary Sciences
Feb 20, 2023
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For the past three years, the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Core Observatory has gone from components and assembly drawings to a fully functioning satellite at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. ...
Space Exploration
Nov 25, 2013
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