Some of the deepest parts of the Black Sea are still responding to the climate change demanded by the last ice age, scientists have discovered – a period that officially ended about 12,000 years ago. Analysis of gas hydrate deposits – in this case methane trapped by water molecules, in …
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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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The natural world has undergone an almost unimaginable regime change, reflecting the vast and growing dominance of humanity on our planet’s most important resource: freshwater. Researchers say this is the first global survey of human effects on the water cycle. Scientists have used NASA’s satellite measurements to remotely measure the …
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Graphene continues to amaze us with its power and diversity – new stimuli are being discovered all the time, and now scientists have found a way to manipulate the wonder material so that it can filter water impurities well Two-dimensional materials made up of carbon atoms have previously been studied …
Read More »A meteorite from the Geminid meteor shower on December 12, 2009 over Southall, New York. Photo: Stan Honda / AFP (Getty Images) Meteors formed in the early days of the solar system may contain liquid water, according to new research, credited to the theory that water and other precursors were …
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