Tiny microbes belching toxic gas helped cause—and prolong—the biggest mass extinction in Earth's history, a new study suggests.
Earth Sciences
Dec 20, 2021
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Hydrogen sulfide, the gas that gives rotten eggs their distinctive odor, permeates the upper atmosphere of the planet Uranus - as has been long debated, but never definitively proven. Based on sensitive spectroscopic observations ...
Astronomy
Apr 23, 2018
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On the long list of reasons why few scientists have dared plumb the mysteries of the Bahamas' famed blue holes, the toxic swamp gas actually rates pretty low.
Earth Sciences
Oct 1, 2010
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Scientists have found a new chemical process to turn a stinky, toxic gas into a clean-burning fuel.
Materials Science
Sep 9, 2021
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An international research team has analysed two of the earth's mass extinction events, finding markedly similar conditions between the two.
Earth Sciences
Dec 10, 2013
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DOE's National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) has developed a molten catalytic process for converting coal into a synthesis gas consisting of roughly 20% methane and 80% hydrogen using alkali hydroxides as both gasification ...
Energy & Green Tech
Oct 23, 2012
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In so many ways, Don Juan Pond in the Dry Valleys of Antarctica is one of the most unearthly places on the planet. An ankle-deep mirror between mountain peaks and rubbled moraine, the pond is an astonishing 18 times saltier ...
Earth Sciences
Apr 25, 2010
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(Phys.org) —No one who has cracked open a rotten egg will forget its infernal stench. Biofuel plants, sewage treatment plants, and petroleum refineries can generate substantial amounts of foul-smelling hydrogen sulfide ...
Materials Science
Apr 3, 2014
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(Phys.org)—By studying the origins of different isotope ratios among the elements that make up today's smorgasbord of planets, moons, comets, asteroids, and interplanetary ice and dust, Mark Thiemens and his colleagues ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 20, 2013
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Earth's largest mass extinction event, the end-Permian mass extinction, occurred some 252 million years ago. An estimated 90 percent of Earth's marine life was eradicated. To better understand the cause of this "mother of ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 11, 2011
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