A study led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst and published recently in Science Advances, upends the previously accepted theory on why the Vikings abandoned Greenland.
Greenland, or Grœnland in Old Norse, was settled by Norwegian and…
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Researchers open lunar time capsule from Apollo 17 mission
Scientists from NASA have opened a lunar time capsule from the Apollo 17 mission conducted in 1972.
The Apollo mission was the final mission of NASA’s Apollo program, in which Commander Eugene Cernan and Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt…
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Scientists solve solar secret
The further we move away from a heat source, the cooler the air gets. Bizarrely, the same can’t be said for the Sun, but University of Otago scientists may have just explained a key part of why.
Study lead Dr Jonathan Squire, of the Department…
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Acoustic remote sensing reveals sunken Roman city of Baia
NORBIT Subsea and 2BControl, in collaboration with the Institute of Heritage Science of the Italian National Research Council, have conducted a study of the partially submerged Roman city of Baia in the Gulf of Naples, Italy.
Baia was a…
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a black hole spins on its side
Researchers from the University of Turku, Finland, found that the axis of rotation of a black hole in a binary system is tilted more than 40 degrees relative to the axis of stellar orbit. The finding challenges current theoretical models of black…
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Cosmic cataclysm may have caused downfall of the Hopewell Culture
Researchers from the University of Cincinnati have found evidence of a cosmic cataclysm 1,500 years that may be responsible for the downfall of the Hopewell Culture.
The Hopewell Culture was a widely dispersed set of pre-Columbian Native American…
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Scientists have shown how the freezing of a ‘slushy’ ocean of magma may be responsible for the composition of the Moon’s crust.
Scientists from the University of Cambridge and the Ecole normale supérieure de Lyon, have proposed a new model of crystallisation where crystals remained suspended in liquid magma over hundreds of millions of years as the lunar ‘slush’…
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Study pinpoints timing of Chicxulub asteroid impact
Groundbreaking study confirms time of year when asteroid wiped out dinosaurs and 75 percent of life on Earth.
A groundbreaking study led by researchers at Florida Atlantic University and an international team of scientists conclusively confirms…
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Fiery dragon’s breath may scorch young planets
A research group led by Kosuke Namekata and Hiroyuki Maehara at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) has been monitoring EK Draconis, a young solar-type star located 111 light-years away in the constellation Draco, the…
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Leather scale armour proves technology transfer occurred in antiquity
Researchers at the University of Zurich have investigated a unique leather scale armour found in the tomb of a horse rider in Northwest China.
Design and construction details of the armour indicate that it originated in the Neo-Assyrian Empire…
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