Searching for planets and studying their stars, I have had the privilege of using some of the largest telescopes in the world. However, our team recently turned to an even larger system…
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Scientists bring Earth’s ‘memory’ back with ice on top of a mountain
Guliya Ice Cap. Credit: TPE Humans are fascinated by the distant past of our planet. Since recorded human history dates back only a few thousand years, we probe Earth’s “memory” in various…
A ‘potentially dangerous’ skyscraper-sized asteroid will cross Earth’s orbit on Halloween
NASA says a newly discovered “potentially dangerous” asteroid the size of the world’s tallest skyscraper is set to pass Earth just in time for Halloween. The asteroid, called 2022 RM4, has an…
Radioactive traces in tree rings reveal Earth’s history of unexplained ‘radiation storms’
Searching for planets and studying their stars, I have had the privilege of using some of the largest telescopes in the world. However, our team recently turned to an even larger system…
A massive ‘proton aurora’ has blasted a 250-mile-wide hole in Earth’s ozone layer
When a burst of solar energy hit Earth in June 2015, the resulting shower of particles blasted a 400-kilometre-wide hole in the upper ozone layer, new research has found. Fortunately, the hole…
Hear the spooky sounds of Earth’s magnetic field – captured by Swarm Satellite Mission
Although essential to life on Earth, the magnetic field is not something that we can actually see by itself, nor ever hear. But, remarkably, scientists at the Technical University of Denmark have…
The frightening sound of the earth’s magnetic field
Apps 24/10/2022 108 views 0 love Although essential to life on Earth, the magnetic field is not something that we can actually see by itself, nor ever hear. But, remarkably, scientists at…
It’s Not Science Fiction: Methane-Eating “Borgs” Have Assimilated Earth’s Microbes
A digital illustration inspired by the methane-eating Archaea and the Borg who assimilate them. Credit: Jenny Nuss/Berkeley Lab A new type of transferable transfer DNA DNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid, is a molecule…
Botswana diamond proves Earth’s mantle transition zone has water reserves, not a dry sponge
It was previously believed that the Earth’s transition zone was a dry sponge, but a recent study revealed that there were reserves of water there. More information about this region between the…