News tagged with geologic ages
Census of modern organisms reveals echo of ancient mass extinction
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Feb 05, 2009 |
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Paleontologists can still hear the echo of the death knell that drove the dinosaurs and many other organisms to extinction following an asteroid collision at the end of the Cretaceous Period 65 million years ...
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Scientists Link Natural Gas Formation by Bacteria to Climate Change and Renewable Energy
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 28, 2008 |
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Natural gas reservoirs in Michigan’s Antrim Shale are providing new information about global warming and the Earth’s climate history, according to a recent study by Steven Petsch, a geoscientist at the University of Massachusetts ...
Researchers find ancient climate cycles recorded in Mars rocks
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 04, 2008 |
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Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and their colleagues have found evidence of ancient climate change on Mars caused by regular variation in the planet's tilt, or obliquity. On ...
Antarctic life hung by a thread during ice ages
Feb 15, 2008 |
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Frozen in time... frozen in place... frozen solid... All of these phrases have been used to describe Antarctica, and yet they all belie the truth about this southerly point on the globe. Although the area is covered in ...
Reduction in glycotoxins from heat-processing of foods reduces risk of chronic disease
Nov 04, 2009 |
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Researchers from Mount Sinai School of Medicine report that cutting back on the consumption of processed and fried foods, which are high in toxins called Advanced Glycation End products (AGEs), can reduce inflammation and ...
Peruvian glacial retreats linked to European events of Little Ice Age
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Sep 24, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study that reports precise ages for glacial moraines in southern Peru links climate swings in the tropics to those of Europe and North America during the Little Ice Age approximately ...
New funding will stimulate alternative energy research
Nov 16, 2009 |
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Initiatives to provide geothermal heating or power at the Pueblo of Jemez and the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology campus are receiving Los Alamos National Laboratory assistance, thanks to recent American Reinvestment ...
Scientists rebuild ancient proteins to reveal primordial Earth's temperature
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Feb 07, 2008 |
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Using the genetic equivalent of an ancient thermometer, a team of scientists has determined that the Earth endured a massive cooling period between 500 million and 3.5 billion years ago.
New radar helps monitor site of century-old tragedy
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Nov 27, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A University of Alberta researcher has turned the site of a southern Alberta rockslide tragedy into the proving ground for new equipment meant to avert such a disaster in the future.
Apollo 12 and Surveyor 3
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Sep 03, 2009 |
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Four months after the success of Apollo 11, NASA launched Apollo 12 in November 1969. Almost exactly 40 years later, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has seen the landing site.
Researchers Develop New Model of Ice Volume Change Based on Earth's Orbital Patterns
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Jun 23, 2006 |
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Through dated geological records scientists have known for decades that variations in the Earth’s orbit around the sun – subtle changes in the distance between the two – control ice ages. But, for the first 2 million years ...
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