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How did land plants change rivers? " Sciworthy
7+ hour, 35+ min ago (70+ words) Read Time: 7 minutes Original study: Vegetation changes the trajectory of river bends Study was published on: June 23, 2025 Study author(s): Michael Hasson, Alvise Finotello, Alessandro Ielpi, Mathieu G. A. Lapotre The study was done at: Stanford University (USA), University of Padova (Italy), University…...
Hidden bacteria dominate Earth's deep soils " Sciworthy
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (104+ words) Read Time: 7 minutes Original study: Diversification, niche adaptation, and evolution of a candidate phylum thriving in the deep Critical Zone Study was published on: March 18, 2025 Study author(s): W. Feng, X. Wan, Y. Zhang, J. Quensen, T. A. Williams, M. Thompson, M. Streeter, Y. Zhang, S. Jiao, G. Wei, Y. Zhu, J. Gu, J. M. Tiedje,…...
How did Mars get its moons? " Sciworthy
5+ mon, 3+ week ago (182+ words) Read Time: 8 minutes To test whether this scenario was possible, 2 scientists from Japan created a model to calculate the trajectories of Phobos-sized objects hurling towards Mars. They aimed to demonstrate that these problems do not render the gas-drag capture hypothesis…...
Carbon feedbacks 56 million years ago similar to today " Sciworthy
8+ mon, 3+ week ago (367+ words) The Encyclopedia of Science's Frontier Read Time: 7 minutes Scientists call this event the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum or PETM. Researchers have a limited understanding of ocean acidification during the PETM because they have no direct way to measure the acidity of…...
Is groundwater heating up? " Sciworthy
10+ mon, 1+ week ago (230+ words) The Encyclopedia of Science's Frontier Read Time: 7 minutes Susanne A. Benz and colleagues hypothesized that increased surface temperatures would negatively impact the chemistry of groundwater and threaten the communities and environments that rely on it. To test this hypothesis, the research…...
Volcanic explosions warmed past Earth
11+ mon, 2+ day ago (304+ words) The Encyclopedia of Science's Frontier Read Time: 6 minutes Scientists in the past have shown that the release of light carbon-12 into the atmosphere during the early Jurassic, also known as the Toarcian, doubled carbon dioxide levels and raised the ocean…...
Most river water comes from the ground
11+ mon, 2+ week ago (161+ words) The Encyclopedia of Science's Frontier Read Time: 7 minutes Original study: Majority of global river flow sustained by groundwater Study was published on: July 19, 2024 Study author(s): Jiaxin Xie, Xiaomang Liu, Scott Jasechko, Wouter R. Berghuijs, Kaiwen Wang, Changming Liu, Markus Reichstein, Martin…...