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World-First Ice Vault Is Preserving Earth's Climate History
7+ mon, 4+ week ago (663+ words) Scientists on Wednesday sealed ancient chunks of glacial ice in a first-of-its-kind sanctuary in Antarctica in the hope of preserving these fast-disappearing records of Earth's past climate for centuries to come. The two ice cores taken from Europe's Alps are…...
A Quiet Region of Italy Is Hiding a Vast Reservoir of Magma
4+ mon, 3+ week ago (463+ words) like an X-ray for the Earth. Using the resulting data, Lupi and his colleagues modeled the upper 15 kilometers...explains Lupi. The team's interpretation of their data is that the middle crust of the Tuscany region is...
This 105-Meter Ice Core Could Explain A Bizarre Glacier Anomaly
8+ mon, 3+ week ago (789+ words) Dressed in an orange puffer jacket, Japanese scientist Yoshinori Iizuka stepped into a storage freezer to retrieve an ice core he hopes will help experts protect the world's disappearing glaciers. The fist-sized sample drilled from a mountaintop is part of…...
Earliest Chemical Traces of Life on Earth Discovered in 3.3-Billion-Year-Old Rock
9+ mon, 3+ week ago (682+ words) Fossilized remnants of ancient carbon from the heart of South Africa's Mpumalanga province have just yielded the earliest chemical evidence yet of life on Earth. According to a new analysis using machine learning, fragmentary traces of carbon from the Josefsdal…...
The Shape of Earth's Core Could Be Explained by One Mystery Ingredient
11+ mon, 3+ week ago (896+ words) core at its centre. However, because we cannot access the core, we have to estimate its properties to...
Curiosity Cracked Open a Rock on Mars And Revealed a Big Surprise
9+ mon, 1+ week ago (780+ words) A rock on Mars spilled a surprising yellow treasure after Curiosity accidentally cracked through its unremarkable exterior. When the rover rolled its 899-kilogram (1,982-pound) body over the fragile lump of mineral in May of last year, the deposit broke open,…...
Intense 'Darkwaves' Can Cast Ocean in Shadow For Months, Scientists Discover
7+ mon, 3+ week ago (601+ words) Just as Earth's skies can be darkened by cloud and smog, the oceans too can be shrouded in darkness. These prolonged periods of darkness aren't just passing shadows; they can take over parts of the ocean for months, with devastating…...
World First: Scientists Witnessed a Piece of Earth's Oceanic Crust Being Born
2+ mon, 4+ day ago (523+ words) Most of our planet's crust is forged in a thalassic factory human eyes never see....
NASA Discovered a Rock on Mars That Doesn't Belong There
9+ mon, 3+ week ago (538+ words) More than five years into its mission, NASA's Mars Perseverance rover is still ambling across the surface of the red planet, doing what any five-year-old loves to do – stopping to look at every rock on its path. One of its…...
As Ice Melts, Antarctica Is Leaking Mercury Into The Ocean
1+ mon, 5+ day ago (617+ words) Across the last 200 years, Antarctica has been copping a whole lot of mercury pollution, despite humanity's best efforts to keep the frozen continent relatively untouched. Mercury is released into the environment naturally by volcanoes and geological weathering, but ever since…...