Despite dominating the planet’s surface for millions of years, dinosaur diversity reached a dramatic conclusion at the end of the planet’s impact on the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, about 66 million years ago. It is so swollen with data that it is hard to imagine any room for suspicion that this …
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The image above may look like a fairly normal picture of the night sky, but what you see is much more special than just the shining stars. Each of these white dots is an active supermassive black hole. And each of those black holes lifts the material into the heart …
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New research has shown that the Earth’s crust of a global period, 000,000 years ago, has the opposite effect on the Earth’s magnetic field. According to radiocarbons preserved in ancient tree rings, valuable climate breakdowns, mass extinctions, and changes in human behavior over the centuries can also be directly linked …
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The farthest known object in the solar system has been confirmed. Farfaurot, a giant rock found at a distance of about 132 astronomical units from the Sun in 2018, has been studied and characterized, and now we know a lot more about it and its orbit. It is around 400 …
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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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