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Researchers unearth ‘new’ mass-extinction
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•A team of scientists has concluded that earth experienced a previously underestimated severe mass-extinction event, which occurred about 260 million years ago. …read more Source:: Science
Stardust in the Antarctic snow
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•The rare isotope iron-60 is created in massive stellar explosions. Only a very small amount of this isotope reaches the earth from distant stars. Now, a research team has discovered …read more Source:: Science
Captured carbon dioxide converts into oxalic acid to process rare earth elements
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•Removing carbon dioxide from power plant emissions is a good idea to start with — and it may have an extra economic benefit. Engineers are presenting results on turning carbon …read more Source:: Science
We need to rethink everything we know about global warming
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•New research shows that the degree to which aerosols cool the earth has been grossly underestimated, necessitating a recalculation of climate change models to more accurately predict the pace of …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
There and back again: Mantle xenon has a story to tell
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•Volatiles — such as water, carbon dioxide and the noble gases — come out of the earth’s interior through volcanism and may be injected into the mantle from the atmosphere, …read more Source:: Science
VLA detects possible extrasolar planetary-mass magnetic powerhouse
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•Astronomers have detected a possible planetary-mass object with a surprisingly powerful magnetic field some 20 light-years from Earth. It can help scientists better understand magnetic processes on stars and planets. …read more Source:: Science
What makes diamonds blue? Boron from oceanic crustal remnants in Earth’s lower mantle
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•Blue diamonds — like the world-famous Hope Diamond at the National Museum of Natural History — formed up to four times deeper in the Earth’s mantle than most other diamonds, …read more Source:: Science
Billion-year-old lake deposit yields clues to Earth’s ancient biosphere
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•A sample of ancient oxygen, teased out of a 1.4-billion-year-old evaporative lake deposit in Ontario, provides fresh evidence of what the Earth’s atmosphere and biosphere were like during the interval …read more Source:: Science