An international team has discovered a 31-km wide meteorite impact crater buried beneath the ice-sheet in the northern Greenland. This is the first time that a crater of any size …read more Source:: Science
Day: November 14, 2018
Deep-time evolution of animal life on islands
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•A new article describes two new fossil relatives of marsupials that shed light on how a unique island ecosystem evolved some 43 million years ago during the Eocene. …read more Source:: Science
Cold Super-Earth found orbiting closest single star to Sun
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•The nearest single star to the Sun hosts an exoplanet at least 3.2 times as massive as Earth — a so-called super-Earth. One of the largest observing campaigns to date …read more Source:: Science
Climate simulations project wetter, windier hurricanes
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•New supercomputer simulations by climate scientists have shown that climate change intensified the amount of rainfall in recent hurricanes such as Katrina, Irma, and Maria by 5 to 10 percent. …read more Source:: Science
Seismic study reveals huge amount of water dragged into Earth’s interior
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•Slow-motion collisions of tectonic plates under the ocean drag about three times more water down into the deep Earth than previously estimated, according to a first-of-its-kind seismic study that spans …read more Source:: Science