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2011 Draconid Meteor Shower Deposited a Ton of Meteoritic Material on Earth
June 6, 2013 — About a ton of material coming from comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner was deposited in the Earth's atmosphere on October 8th and 9th, 2011 during one of the most intense showers of shooting starts in the ... > full story -
'Caldas Tear' Resolves Puzzling Seismic Activity Beneath Colombia
June 6, 2013 — Colombia sits atop a complex geological area where three tectonic plates are interacting, producing seismicity patterns that have puzzled seismologists for years. Now seismologists have identified ... > full story -
Life on Earth Shockingly Comes from out of This World
June 5, 2013 — Early Earth was not very hospitable when it came to jump starting life. In fact, new research shows that life on Earth may have come from out of this world. Researchers have found that icy comets ... > full story -
Ancient Trapped Water Explains Earth's First Ice Age
June 5, 2013 — Tiny bubbles of water found in quartz grains in Australia may hold the key to understanding what caused the Earth's first ice age, say ... > full story -
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Life-Producing Phosphorus Carried to Earth by Meteorites
June 4, 2013 — Scientists may not know for certain whether life exists in outer space, but research now shows that one key element that produced life on Earth was carried here on meteorites. In a new study, ... > full story -
New Explanation for Slow Earthquakes on San Andreas
June 3, 2013 — New Zealand's geologic hazards agency reported this week an ongoing, "silent" earthquake that began in January is still going strong. Though it is releasing the energy equivalent of a 7.0 earthquake, ... > full story -
Acceleration of Ocean Denitrification During Deglaciation Documented
June 3, 2013 — As ice sheets melted during the deglaciation of the last ice age and global oceans warmed, oceanic oxygen levels decreased and "denitrification" accelerated by 30 to 120 percent, a new international ... > full story -
The Greatest Place to Be a Martian: Australia?
May 31, 2013 — Would Martians feel at home in Australia? Recent research has proven that if Martians took a holiday to Australia they might feel more at home than you’d think. Researchers have recently ... > full story -
Antarctic Polar Icecap Is 33.6 Million Years Old, Researchers Show
May 27, 2013 — Seasonal primary productivity of plankton communities appeared with the first ice. This phenomenon, still active today, influences global food webs. These findings are based on fossil records in ... > full story -
Expedition to Study Ancient Continental Breakup West of Spain
May 24, 2013 — An international team of scientists has embarked on a shipboard expedition to study how the Earth's crust was pulled apart in an area beneath the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of ... > full story
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