Ancient glaciers reshaped Earth’s surface and shifted ocean chemistry, fueling the rise of complex life, a new study found. Calved icebergs from the Twin Glaciers are seen in 2013 off Greenland's ...
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Ancient salt crystals shed light on Earth’s climate 1.4 billion years ago
Through the analyses of gases and fluids preserved within salt crystals, the team extended the direct record of Earth’s ...
A team of astrophysicists, geoscientists, chemists and life scientists affiliated with a host of institutions in Japan has found evidence that billions of years ago, the Earth's oceans were green. In ...
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Ancient air in salt crystals redefines Earth’s “boring billion”
What is shelf life on a breath of air? Well, it just so happens that back in northern Ontario, it’s 1.4 billion years.
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Ancient molten exoplanet keeps its atmosphere against all odds
An ancient rocky world so close to its star that its surface is largely molten should have been stripped bare of gas long ago ...
New Curtin University research has revealed how massive ancient glaciers acted like giant bulldozers, reshaping Earth's surface and paving the way for complex life to flourish. The key to unlocking ...
Scientists believe that Earth's core is a massive ball of iron. However, a new discovery suggests that the Earth's core is surrounded by an unexpected ancient structure. A high-resolution map of the ...
Cycads use infrared heat to guide beetle pollinators, revealing an ancient plant communication system that predates flowers.
A new technique for measuring the Earth’s magnetic field back to the days of the dinosaurs and beyond has revealed that the magnetic field was as much as three times stronger in ancient Earth than ...
AMES, Iowa – Astronomers poring over four years of data from NASA’s Kepler spacecraft have discovered a star that’s 11.2 billion years old and has at least five Earth-size planets. “We thus show that ...
It used to be thought that there were more volatiles than expected in lunar soil because they escaped Earth before it had a ...
Dustin Trail began his academic career in computer science, but he quickly realized he had a more specific interest: the geology of the early Earth and the mysterious origins of life. “We're at this ...
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