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 the largest and strangest of all the formations on Earth: huge, mysterious blobs of ga ense stone hidden deep in the lower parts of our planet’s mantle. These include two large populations called the Large Low-Shear-Vagilance Provinces (LLSVPs) – one buried under Africa and the other under the …
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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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From what little we know about them, it seems very different. Mysterious creatures living in the ocean half a billion years ago – headless, messy things, mostly alien to us in all respects. Except they weren’t, new research suggests. In fact, biodata, an ancient marine life-form inhabiting the earth from …
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More and more, it seems that the existence of life on earth is the result of a perpetual destiny. According to a new analysis of the galaxy’s history, the best time and place for the emergence of life is not here or now, but outside the galaxy 6 billion years …
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