Radiocarbon dating is set to become more accurate than ever after an international team of scientists improved the technique for assessing the age of historical objects.
The team of researchers at the Universities of Sheffield, Belfast, Bristol,…
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Academics Develop New Method to Determine the Origin of Stardust in Meteorites
Meteorites are critical to understanding the beginning of our solar system and how it has evolved over time.
However, some meteorites contain grains of stardust that predate the formation of our solar system and are now providing important…
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Inside the Ice Giants of Space
A new theoretical method paves the way to modelling the interior of the ice giants Uranus and Neptune, thanks to computer simulations on the water contained within them.
The tool, developed by scientists from SISSA in Trieste and the University of…
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Innovative Method Opens up New Perspectives for Reconstructing Climatic Conditions of Past Eras
Corals precipitate their calcareous skeletons (calcium carbonate) from seawater. Over thousands of years, vast coral reefs form due to the deposition of this calcium carbonate.
During precipitation, corals prefer carbonate groups containing…
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New Study Supports Predictions That the Arctic Could be Free of Sea Ice by 2035
A new study, published this week in the journal Nature Climate Change, supports predictions that the Arctic could be free of sea ice by 2035.
High temperatures in the Arctic during the last interglacial – the warm period around 127,000 years ago…
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Rare ‘Boomerang’ Earthquake Observed Along Atlantic Ocean Fault Line
Scientists have tracked a ‘boomerang’ earthquake in the ocean for the first time, providing clues about how they could cause devastation on land.
Earthquakes occur when rocks suddenly break on a fault – a boundary between two blocks or…
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Ring-like Structure on Ganymede May Have Been Caused by a Violent Impact
Researchers from Kobe University and the National Institute of Technology, Oshima College have conducted a detailed reanalysis of image data from Voyager 1, 2 and Galileo spacecraft in order to investigate the orientation and distribution of the…
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Tracing Evolution From Embryo to Baby Star
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) took a census of stellar eggs in the constellation Taurus and revealed their evolution state.
This census helps researchers understand how and when a stellar embryo…
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A New Look at Mars’ Eerie, Ultraviolet Nighttime Glow
Every night on Mars, when the sun sets and temperatures fall to minus 80 degrees Fahrenheit and below, an eerie phenomenon spreads across much of the planet’s sky: a soft glow created by chemical reactions occurring tens of miles above the…
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Global Magnetic Field of the Solar Corona Measured for the First Time
An international team of solar physicists, including academics from Northumbria University, in Newcastle upon Tyne, has recently measured the global magnetic field of the outer most layer of the Sun’s atmosphere, the solar corona, for the first…
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