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Seeing An Ancient NY Forest Through Tree Fossils
Fossil hunters investigating the floor of a 385 million-year-old forest in an excavated upstate New York quarry found evidence...
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Violent History Preserved in Asteroid Grains
The world’s first asteroid sample return mission is providing some stunning insights to the evolution of the primordial pieces...
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How Earth’s Primordial Soup Came to Life
Just as species are thought to have evolved over time, the individual molecules that form the basis of life...
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Building Blocks of Early Earth Survived Collision That Created Moon
Unexpected new findings by a University of Maryland team of geochemists show that some portions of the Earth’s mantle...
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Did Life’s First Cells Evolve in Geothermal Pools?
Earth started as a violent place, its surface churned by continuous volcanic eruptions and cloaked in an atmosphere that...
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Will This Be the Year Scientists Find the ‘God Particle’?
Scientists hunting the Higgs boson, the sub-atomic particle believed to have played a vital role in the creation of...
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NASA Spots ‘Alien’ Matter From Beyond Solar System
For the very first time, a NASA spacecraft has detected matter from outside our solar system — material that...
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‘Near Earth Objects’ Shield to Assess Earth Defense
NEOShield is a new international project that will assess the threat posed by Near Earth Objects (NEO) and look...
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Comet’s Fiery Plunge May Tell Us How Planets Form
For the first time, scientists have caught a glimpse of a comet's final minutes before it was vaporized by...
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Moroccan Rock Came from Mars
A hail of Martian meteorites crashed to Earth last July, and collectors and scientists around the world are snapping...