Footprints found at White Sands National Park in New Mexico provide the earliest unequivocal evidence of human activity in the Americas and offer insight into life over 23,000 years ago.
Archaeology
Sep 23, 2021
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Two research teams, using data from the European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter, have recently published results suggesting that what were thought to be subsurface lakes on Mars may not really be lakes at all.
Planetary Sciences
Jul 3, 2021
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Health care and education systems are two main pillars of a community's stability. How well and how quickly a community recovers following a natural disaster depends on the resilience of these essential social services.
Social Sciences
Feb 5, 2021
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As wildfires burn more often across the Western United States, researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory are working to understand how extensively blazes burn. Their investigation, ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 8, 2020
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The oceanic lithosphere descends into Earth's mantle as subducting slabs. Boundaries between the subducting slab and the surrounding mantle are defined as slab interfaces, whose seismic imaging is the key to understanding ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 9, 2020
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Ice loss from the Greenland Ice Sheet has accelerated significantly over the past two decades, transforming the shape of the ice sheet edge and therefore coastal Greenland, according to scientific research led by Twila Moon, ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 27, 2020
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University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science researcher Shane Elipot proposes a new approach to monitoring global sea-level rise. Using the existing NOAA Global Drifter Program array of roughly ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 26, 2020
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New simulations from Imperial College London have revealed the asteroid that doomed the dinosaurs struck Earth at the 'deadliest possible' angle.
Earth Sciences
May 26, 2020
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Huge chunks of an Indonesian volcano litter the seabed after its eruption and subsequent collapse last year sparked a deadly tsunami, according to new research.
Earth Sciences
Dec 18, 2019
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Scientists surveying a cemetery and a homeless camp in Tulsa, Oklahoma, found pits holding possible remains of black residents killed nearly 100 years ago in a race massacre, investigators have revealed.
Archaeology
Dec 18, 2019
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