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Earth May Have Had a Ring Like Saturn Once
“Over millions of years, material from this ring gradually fell to Earth, creating the spike in meteorite impacts observed in ...
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Searching for Earth’s Oldest Rocks: Follow a Smithsonian Expedition to the Remote Northwest Territories
High in the Canadian wilderness, Smithsonian scientists search for ancient minerals that could explain the origins of the ...
Historic rainfall inflicts chaotic floods across four continents
Severe rains bucketed down on central Europe, Africa, Shanghai and the U.S. Carolinas this week, underscoring the extreme ...
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Wind and Rain Helped Earth's Continents Endure Billions
As continental landmasses rose above sea level to meet wind and rain effects around 3 billion years ago, they underwent a ...
2-Minute Video Shows 1.8 Billion Years Of Earth’s Shifting Continents
In one of the most complete models ever put together, a new study has condensed 1.8 billion years of plate tectonics into a 2-minute video clip.
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Earth had Saturn-like rings 466 million years ago, new study suggests
Earth may have had a Saturn-like ring system long ago, created from the debris of a passing asteroid that our planet tore ...
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Earth may once have had a ring like Saturn
A ring of asteroid debris could have orbited Earth for tens of millions of years, and perhaps even have altered the planet's climate ...
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Scientists discover that the Earth only has six continents not seven
The Earth doesn’t have seven continents after all. From a young age, we're taught that the world consists of Africa, ...
Scientists from 33 European countries join forces to generate reference genomes for the continent's biological diversity
In a new publication, the European Reference Genome Atlas (ERGA) announces the success of its pilot project. This initiative ...
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Watch Earth’s Continents Shift Over 1.8 Billion Years in Stunning 2-Minute Video
A new study has condensed 1.8 billion years of Earth’s tectonic plate movements into a mesmerizing two-minute video. Led by Dr. Xianzhi Cao of the Ocean University of China, this animation provides a ...