NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission is on its way to the Red Planet to search for signs of ancient life and collect samples to send back to Earth. …read more Source:: Science
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A tiny ancient relative of dinosaurs and pterosaurs discovered
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•Dinosaurs and pterosaurs may be known for their remarkable size, but a newly described species that lived around 237 million years ago suggests that they originated from extremely small ancestors. …read more Source:: Science
Home router warning: They’re riddled with known flaws and run ancient, unpatched Linux
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•And there are no routers in the study from the Fraunhofer Institute without known security flaws. …read more Source:: Linux
Archaeologists on a 5,000-year-old egg hunt
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•Scientists are closer to cracking a 5,000-year-old mystery surrounding the ancient trade and production of decorated ostrich eggs. Long before Fabergé, ornate ostrich eggs were highly prized by the elites …read more Source:: Science
Traces of ancient rainforest in Antarctica point to a warmer prehistoric world
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•Researchers have found evidence of rainforests near the South Pole 90 million years ago, suggesting the climate was exceptionally warm at the time. …read more Source:: Science
Geologists determine early Earth was a ‘water world’ by studying exposed ocean crust
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•Geologists have studied exposed, 3.2-billion-year-old ocean crust in Australia and used that rock data to build a quantitative, inverse model of ancient seawater. The model indicates the early Earth could …read more Source:: Science
Methane emitted by humans vastly underestimated
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•Researchers measured methane levels in ancient air samples and found that scientists have been vastly underestimating the amount of methane humans are emitting into the atmosphere via fossil fuels. The …read more Source:: Science
Astronomers detect large amounts of oxygen in ancient star’s atmosphere
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•Astronomers have detected large amounts of oxygen in the atmosphere of one of the oldest and most elementally depleted stars known. This new finding provides an important clue on how …read more Source:: Science
NASA’s Mars 2020 will hunt for microscopic fossils
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•Scientists with NASA’s Mars 2020 rover have discovered what may be one of the best places to look for signs of ancient life in Jezero Crater, where the rover will …read more Source:: Science
NASA’s Curiosity Rover finds an ancient oasis on Mars
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•If you could travel back in time 3.5 billion years, what would Mars look like? The picture is evolving among scientists working with NASA’s Curiosity rover. …read more Source:: Science