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Scientists Found the Coldest Seawater in History from when Snowball Earth Reached Freezing Temperatures of Minus 15° Celsius
7+ mon, 6+ day ago (391+ words) Iron isotopes show that salty seawater pockets beneath the ice were as cold as −15°C. In Nature Communications, researchers reported the first measured sea temperature from a snowball Earth episode: −15°C ± 7°C. If this figure holds up, it will be the…...
Nickel Fingerprints Reveal What the Asteroid That Killed the Dinosaurs Was Made Of
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (541+ words) Home → Science → Paleontology The culprit may have been an unusually dry relic from the outer solar system. The asteroid that ended the age of dinosaurs erased nearly all traces of itself. It struck Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula 66 million years ago, vaporized…...
New 3D Algorithm Reveals That Massive Snowfall in Antarctica Is Driven by Invisible Atmospheric Rivers
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (19+ words) A new study shows that atmospheric rivers may be responsible for up to 90% of Antarctica’s annual precipitation....
What's the Oldest River In the World? It's So Old It Passed Through Pangea
4+ mon, 4+ day ago (973+ words) It's not easy figuring out the age of a river....
A Giant Weak Spot in Earth’s Magnetic Field Is Spreading and Scientists Are Worried
10+ mon, 2+ day ago (502+ words) This could be bad news for satellites and spacefarers. A weak spot in Earth’s protective magnetic field is growing larger and exposing orbiting satellites and astronauts to more solar radiation, according to more than a decade of measurements by three…...
An Alaskan Mountain Collapsed and Created a 481-Meter Tsunami Taller Than Almost Every Building in the World
4+ mon, 6+ day ago (488+ words) A landslide in Tracy Arm Fjord in Alaska created the second-largest tsunami on record. A new analysis links this abrupt event to the retreat of a glacier and, ultimately, to climate change. In the early morning of 10 August 2025, a mountainside…...
Scientists Discovered a New Type of Rock Made Out of a Gemstone Mineral Inside a Martian Meteorite
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (898+ words) This is the first evidence that the mineral garnet may have been formed within the crust of Mars itself, heralding clues to the planet’s complex history. On Earth, garnet is best known as the fiery red January birthstone — popular in…...
Meteor Crater Impact May Have Triggered Ancient Floods in the Grand Canyon
10+ mon, 3+ week ago (419+ words) A new study suggests that two of Arizona’s most famous landmarks may be linked. When it comes to famous holes in the ground, northern Arizona has two: Grand Canyon and Barringer Meteorite Crater. “These are two iconic features of Arizona....
Scientists Just Produced the Best Map of Antarctica's Sub-glacial Landscape, and It's Good News for Climate Change
7+ mon, 3+ week ago (661+ words) There's a rugged world beneath the ice. For decades, scientists have repeated some variations of a striking statistic: we know more about the topography of Mars and Mercury than we do about the ground beneath the Antarctic Ice Sheet. It’s…...
The Coolest Rocks In Geology and the Fascinating Stories They Tell
7+ mon, 1+ week ago (998+ words) Home → Features → Natural Sciences → Geology and Paleontology → Rocks and Minerals How many of these do you know? Geology often gets a bad rap as the boring study of rocks and minerals. I’m hear to show you otherwise. Geology is a…...