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Roughly 252 million years ago, Earth experienced its deadliest known extinction. Known as the Permian–Triassic Mass ...
The object seems to be travelling on a steep path - suggesting it came from the Milky Way's "thick disk", an area of ancient ...
Tungsten (W), a hard, heat-resistant, and corrosion-resistant metal, is indispensable to modern high-tech industries—from ...
New research reveals that only the oldest and fastest-sinking oceanic plates can transport water deep into Earth’s mantle, ...
Researchers have uncovered that both ocean currents and atmospheric changes contribute equally to a cold patch in the North Atlantic. While global temperatures continue to rise, one area in the ...
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has collected data that evidences the theoretical “helicity barrier,” where turbulent dissipation behaves strangely.
Astronomers claim to have found new evidence supporting a controversial observation that our galaxy is residing in an ...
Scientists have long wondered how Earth’s continents first formed. Now, a team of geologists from the University of Hong Kong ...
The catastrophic event, which occurred 252 million years ago, wiped out nearly 90 per cent of all life on Earth, both on land ...
A mass extinction event wiped out around 90% of life. What followed has long puzzled scientists: The planet became lethally hot for 5 million years. Researchers say they have figured out why using a ...
Earth's energy imbalance has more than doubled in the last 20 years, reaching 1.3 W/m2 About 90% of excess heat from this imbalance is absorbed by the oceans Climate models underestimated the ...
But another approach can give us a very clear sense of what’s going on: track how much heat enters Earth’s atmosphere and how much heat leaves. This is Earth’s energy budget, and it’s now well and ...