It is difficult to imagine what the earth would have looked like in the years before life began. Geological investigators have now found more evidence that it was different than the planet we live on today. According to a new analysis of the features of the Earth’s crust over its …
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Our fingers grow as fast as the tectonic plates that cover the Earth like a jigsaw puzzle, but over a billion years, enough to travel the entire planet – in an exciting new video show. In one of the most complete models of tectonic plate movement, scientists have condensed a …
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One of the most beautiful storms in the universe is that shapes and patterns can be found in a wide variety of contexts: the golden spiral can be seen in the shape of the human cochlea and the spiral galaxy; The fragmented geometry of the veins resonated in the branch …
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The Milky Way has merged with many other galaxies in its long lifespan, but stealing its history together has been a loving act. A new analysis of galactic clusters around the galaxy has now given us the most complete galactic merger history ever. And that data includes a previously unknown …
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We know that Mars was once wetter than it is now, but questions about when water formed and evaporated are more difficult to answer. Now a new study suggests that there was water on the Red Planet about 4.4 billion years ago, much earlier than previously thought. It is based …
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