[ad_1] NASA satellite missions track 16 years of melting of Earth’s ice sheets – Physics World Skip to main content Plus Toggle menu MENU Open search dialog Close search menu Discover more from Physics World -> -> Copyright © 2020 by IOP Publishing Ltd and individual contributors shiny-recpub iopiop-sciencePhyscis Connect …
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[ad_1] Paleontologists have published an extensive review of fossil vertebrates from the Cretaceous of Morocco. Along with the research, scientists have described the region where the fossils were excavated as the most dangerous place, about 100 million years ago. Lead author Dr. Nizar Ibrahim of the University of Detroit Mercy …
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[ad_1] It was in 2017 that astronomers discovered Oumuamua, touted as the first interstellar object to reach the solar system. In 2019, an amateur astronomer discovered another interstellar object now known as 2I / Borisov. Now, a team of researchers has discovered a swarm of 19 asteroids that currently lurk …
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[ad_1] Planet Earth (Stockli Challenge / NASA Goddard Space Flight Center) Researchers have revealed that Earth’s tectonic plates began to move more than 3.2 billion years ago, much earlier than originally thought, and just over 1.3 billion years after Earth formed. To date, some researchers theorized that it happened about …
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[ad_1] Coral reefs are dying everywhere. As the home to the most diverse ecosystems on Earth, that’s bad news. Coral reefs protect our coasts from waves and tropical storms, while hosting a large number of marine organisms. Its decline is the result of predominantly human actions such as pollution, overfishing, …
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[ad_1] A new study conducted by geoscientists from Aarhus University and the University of California, Davis has found that the Earth’s molten core may be leaking heavy isotopes of iron. Notably, the boundary between the liquid iron core and the rocky mantle is located around 2,900 km below the surface …
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