Data collected by NASA's Juno mission indicates a briny past may be bubbling to the surface on Jupiter's largest moon.
Astronomy
Oct 31, 2023
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The world has one official kilogram against which all other country's kilograms are measured and scales calibrated.
General Physics
Dec 17, 2018
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Photosynthesis, the process by which plants and other organisms convert sunlight into chemical energy, has been a major player during the evolution of life and our planet's atmosphere. Although most of the ins and outs of ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 12, 2021
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An international team of researchers has found evidence of the mineral jarosite in ice cores extracted from Antarctica. In their paper published in the journal Nature Communications, the researchers describe how the discovery ...
It turns out the moon is older than many scientists suspected: a ripe 4.51 billion years old.
Space Exploration
Jan 11, 2017
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Every year, trade winds over the Sahara Desert sweep up huge plumes of mineral dust, transporting hundreds of teragrams—enough to fill 10 million dump trucks—across North Africa and over the Atlantic Ocean. This dust ...
Earth Sciences
Nov 23, 2016
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Life imitates art. And sometimes science does the same.
Earth Sciences
Jan 8, 2015
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A team of Western mycologists (fungi experts) spent the past two summers digging deep in Newfoundland dirt to investigate the might of mushrooms and found what lies beneath truly is 'the main character' in most terrestrial ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 25, 2022
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New Curtin research has provided the strongest evidence yet that Earth's continents were formed by giant meteorite impacts that were particularly prevalent during the first billion years or so of our planet's four-and-a-half-billion ...
Earth Sciences
Aug 10, 2022
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An international group of scientists, with the participation of the University of Granada (UGR), has shed new light on the origin of gold, one of the most intriguing mysteries for the scientific community.
Earth Sciences
Nov 22, 2017
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