Continent-sized structures of mineral protruding from the lower mantle towards Earth’s outer core may be contributing to an instability of our planet’s magnetic field.
The two odd formations – one under the Pacific and the other beneath…
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Creativity boosts standardized literacy and numeracy test scores: Australia
When ‘Elephant’ toothpaste erupts from the science lab, history deals up Pokémon playing cards, and math class bakes a batch of chocolate brownies, it might seem like chaos.
Yet, a groundbreaking study from University of South Australia…
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Earth’s Strongest Ocean Current Could Slow by 20% as Antarctica Melts : ScienceAlert
Flowing clockwise around Antarctica, the Antarctic Circumpolar Current is the strongest ocean current on the planet. It’s five times stronger than the Gulf Stream and more than 100 times stronger than the Amazon River.
It forms part of the…
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Beyond our solar system: scientists identify a new exoplanet candidate
Scientists from UNSW Sydney have located a potential new exoplanet — a planet that orbits a star outside of our solar system — using a technique known as ‘transit timing variation’.
In research highlighted in a new paper, published today in The…
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Cold atoms on a chip
UC Santa Barbara researchers are working to move cold atom quantum experiments and applications from the laboratory tabletop to chip-based systems, opening new possibilities for sensing, precision timekeeping, quantum computing and fundamental…
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Wildlife Haven Spared Impact as World’s Largest Iceberg Grinds to a Halt : ScienceAlert
The world’s biggest iceberg appears to have run aground roughly 70 kilometres from a remote Antarctic island, potentially sparing the crucial wildlife haven from being hit, a research organisation said Tuesday.
The colossal iceberg A23a –…
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How Long-Lasting Disks Might Affect Life Beyond Our Solar System
What can the protoplanetary disk’s lifetime teach us about finding life beyond Earth? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes to address as an international team of…
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New Study Explains How Ancient Amphibians Survived End-Permian Mass Extinction
Primitive amphibians called temnospondyls survived the aftermath of the end-Permian mass extinction, which occurred about 252 million years ago, by feeding on freshwater prey that evaded terrestrial predators, according to a new study from the…
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Ancient humans used bone tools one million years earlier than thought
Ancient humans used bone tools one million years earlier than thought
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‘Perfect potato’ designed thanks to unearthed genetic diversity
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Potato genomes that contain the complete sequences from…
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