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Ryugu’s Hidden Chemistry Reveals How Space Rocks May Have Delivered Life’s Ingredients To Earth
11+ hour, 12+ min ago (723+ words) Ancient dust from asteroid Ryugu reveals how nitrogen-rich compounds may have formed and survived before reaching young planets. Tiny grains collected from asteroid Ryugu have revealed how nitrogen-rich compounds may have formed and survived in space before reaching young planets....
Italy’s Apennine Mountains mystery: Why is Earth’s crust slowly ‘unzipping’ deep underground, and what is happening beneath the surface?
1+ day, 16+ hour ago (470+ words) Scientists studying Italy’s Apennine Mountains have found a strange process deep below the surface. The Earth’s crust in this region appears to be slowly pulling apart, almost like a zip opening from underground. The finding comes from researchers at the…...
Why is this 560-million-year-old fossil so rare?
1+ day, 8+ hour ago (635+ words) One of the oldest known 3D animal fossils dating back 560 million years has been found in a sheep field. The astonishing discovery of the creature that looked like a "goo-filled bag" when it was alive was made in northern Norway. Scientists…...
Global Team Boosts Radiocarbon Dating with Marine Fossils
2+ day, 2+ hour ago (643+ words) Sedimentation is more important than other factors in the 'time averaging' of marine fossils The investigators analysed more than 7,500 fossils, which were collected from a variety of oceanic environments around the world ANSTO has contributed to a large international study…...
Earth's Crust Is 'Unzipping' Under Italy
2+ day, 3+ hour ago (606+ words) Deep beneath our feet, the slow machinery of Earth is always turning....
Tanzania’s Ol Doinyo Lengai is the only active volcano known to erupt natrocarbonatite, the coolest lava on Earth: it flows at roughly 500–590°C, against 1,100°C or more for Hawaiian basalt. Fresh flows look black or dark brown in daylight, then react with rain and atmospheric moisture until the mountainside turns chalk-white—as though someone spilled milk over the lava.
2+ day, 4+ hour ago (791+ words) Ol Doinyo Lengai’s 500–590°C carbonate lava flows black, then atmospheric moisture and rain transform its unstable minerals into pale, rapidly weathering surfaces....
Sample: Polymetallic Crust
2+ day, 9+ hour ago (97+ words) This scoop of polymetallic crust was collected from a small ridge structure on a seamount during Dive 01 of the 2026 American Samoa ROV + Mapping Exploration expedition. The color checker is included in the photo to help document changes in mineralogy that…...
USGS Eastern Ecological Science Center Estuary Science Highlights
2+ day, 10+ hour ago (437+ words) National Estuaries Week, September 20-27 this year, is an annual celebration to raise public awareness about the importance of estuaries, the dynamic ecosystems where rivers meet the sea, and the vital services they provide. Estuaries support rich biodiversity and are essential…...
Imflux integration progresses at RJG with eye on NPE 2027
2+ day, 10+ hour ago (59+ words) Plastics News Imflux integration progresses at RJG with eye on NPE 2027 North American resin markets have swung sharply back in buyers' favorâPolymer Points explains why prices are falling, what it means for virgin and recycled resins, and whether producers…...
800 million years old - Scientists discover 'fingerprints' of supercontinent Gondwana in ancient rocks
2+ day, 16+ hour ago (286+ words) Gondwana is an ancient continent which scientists have now confirmed was a supercontinent that spread over 80 per cent of the landmass on Earth. They found 25,000 ancient rocks, and AI helped them determine that they belonged to Gondwana 500 million years ago....