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Voyager Spacecraft Detect New Type of Solar Electron Burst
More than 40 years since they launched, the Voyager spacecraft are still making discoveries.
In a new study, a team of physicists led by the University of Iowa report the first detection of bursts of cosmic ray electrons accelerated by shock waves…
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Cluster of Alaskan Islands Could be a Super Volcano
Scientists suggest that a small group of volcanic islands in Alaska’s Aleutian chain might be part of a single, undiscovered giant volcano.
If the researchers’ suspicions are correct, the newfound volcanic caldera would belong to the same…
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Cahokia Study Reveals Impacts of Climate Change on Human History
Water and air are highly mutable resources that exist in a myriad of physical states and dimensions, and due to their affectivity, these entities participate in a multitude of interactions capable of sustaining life, transforming environments,…
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Geoscientists Use Zircon to Trace Origin of Earth’s Continents
Geoscientists have long known that some parts of the continents formed in the Earth’s deep past, but the speed in which land rose above global seas — and the exact shapes that land masses formed — have so far eluded experts.
But now, through…
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Archipelago in Ancient Doggerland Survived Storegga Tsunami 8,000-Years-Ago
Doggerland, dubbed “Britain’s Atlantis” is a submerged landmass beneath what is now the North Sea, that once connected Britain to continental Europe.
The landscape was a diverse mix of gentle hills, marshes, wooded valleys, and swamps,…
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Field Geology at Mars’ Equator Points to Ancient Megaflood
Floods of unimaginable magnitude once washed through Gale Crater on Mars’ equator around 4 billion years ago – a finding that hints at the possibility that life may have existed there, according to data collected by NASA’s Curiosity rover…
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Transition to Feudal Living in 14th Century Impacted Local Ecosystems
The transition from tribal to feudal living, which occurred throughout the 14th century in Lagow, Poland had a significant impact on the local ecosystem, according to a study published in Scientific Reports.
The findings demonstrate how…
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Geoscientists Discover Ancestral Puebloans Survived From Ice Melt in New Mexico Lava Tubes
For more than 10,000 years, the people who lived on the arid landscape of modern-day western New Mexico were renowned for their complex societies, unique architecture and early economic and political systems.
But surviving in what Spanish…
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Modern Computational Tools May Open a New Era for Fossil Pollen Research
One of the best sources of information on the evolution of terrestrial ecosystems and plant diversity over millions of years is fossil pollen.
For palynologists–the scientists who study ancient pollen–a common challenge in the field is the…
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