The world could be training for an ‘information disaster’, as the pace of digital bit production continues to accelerate without signs of stopping, new research suggests. In a new study – one stuck in the more abstract aspects of theoretical physics, it must be said – researcher Melvin Vopson of …
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The Arctic’s fast-melting ice is even more than our strongest predictions for the future, and that is not in line with the past. A new and improved model, based on the last warm period in the history of the Earth, now suggests shallow pools of rain and melt water could …
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The English city of Lyme Regis is part of the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site. It was here in the 1830s that William Buckland, better known from the discovery of the first dinosaur, Megalosaurus, collecting fossils with another pioneering paleontologist, Mary Anning. One of their discoveries was the remains of …
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For the first time, scientists have observed that the ‘megaripples’ on Mars, huge sand waves seen on the Martian surface, are mobile structures and not ancient relics trapped in place from the distant past of the Red Planet. Megaripples, which also occur in Earth’s deserts, are generally larger than the …
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Researchers have successfully revived dormant microbes trapped in an apparently lifeless area of the seabed for more than 100 million years. A team of scientists from Japan and the United States was looking to see if microscopic life survives in less hospitable conditions below the sea floor of the Pacific …
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