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Water moratorium set for First Divide community and surrounding area
3+ day, 16+ hour ago (898+ words) Approximately 60 residents affected by low water pressure, turbidity Thursday, Sep 10, 2026 11:46 AM MT Rusty Sharp, First Divide community resident, spoke with the Tri-City Record following the Aztec City Commission meeting Tues., Sept. 8, 2026. (David Edward Albright/Tri-City Record) Residents of the First…...
The Ancient Cosmic Disasters That Shaped Earth's History
3+ day, 19+ hour ago (1207+ words) Earth may look stable from the ground, but its history has been repeatedly rewritten by events arriving from space. Asteroids, planet-sized bodies, and enormous showers of extraterrestrial debris have smashed into our planet, melted crust, altered environments, and sometimes transformed…...
Drought conditions persist into the Fall season
4+ day, 7+ hour ago (299+ words) The Fall season has arrived, but the persistent below-average rainfall since late Winter and Spring has kept a good chunk of the Carolinas in a notable drought situation. Despite a number of days with scattered thunderstorms and localized heavy rainfall,…...
Ancient Auroras May Have Helped Life Begin on Earth
6+ day, 1+ hour ago (404+ words) We usually depict the early Earth as a restless planet, exposed to ultraviolet radiation, struck by lightning, and constantly hit by meteorites. These widespread energy sources are typically thought to have played a role in forming life’s building blocks. But…...
Four billion years ago, the young Sun may have unleashed superflares every few days—outbursts that Sun-like stars produce only about once a century today. The proton storms they sent into Earth’s atmosphere could have forged nitrous oxide, helping keep the planet warm, and hydrogen cyanide, a crucial feedstock for the chemistry that preceded life.
2+ week, 4+ day ago (662+ words) A 2026 proton-irradiation experiment adds laboratory support to the idea that the active young Sun helped warm early Earth while driving nitrogen chemistry relevant to life's origins....
Did life-friendly planets really form just after the Big Bang? Science stirs debate
3+ week, 5+ day ago (409+ words) Standard models of galactic evolution indicated that the universe needed several billion years after the Big Bang to produce enough heavy elements for rocky planets. Vorobyov and co-author Daniel Whalen at the University of Portsmouth tested the accuracy of the…...