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Science priorities agreed for 2024 lunar exploration
Added: 9 Dec 2020
Planetary processes and polar resource potential prioritised by lunar science team. Researchers pre…
New international carbon dating standard
Added: 13 Aug 2020
Radiocarbon dating is set to become more accurate than ever after an international team of scientis…
Magma movements suggest long-term seismic risk for Northern Europe
Added: 11 Jun 2020
Scientists have discovered new evidence for active volcanism next door to some of the most densely …
Deep earthquake simulation may unravel geophysical mystery (video)
Added: 29 May 2020
New computer modeling by Magali Billen, professor of earth and planetary sciences at UC Davis, offe…
Ice-free Arctic seas by 2050
Added: 24 Apr 2020
Arctic sea-ice simulations suggest ice-free summers before 2050 despite rapidly reduced carbon emis…
UK government withdraws fracking support
Added: 4 Nov 2019
The government has withdrawn its support of fracking in England until further scientific evidence i…
Wellcome Trust on the hunt for best public engagement
Added: 16 Oct 2019
The Wellcome Trust has launched an initiative to find the best examples of public engagement projec…
Deep Carbon Observatory quantifies carbon emissions
Added: 8 Oct 2019
Humanity’s annual carbon emissions are between 40 to 100 times greater than all volcanic emissions,…
Porous rocks support prebiotic evolution theory
Added: 7 Aug 2019
The water-air interface found at pores in volcanic rocks could have been the location of the chemic…
First study on influence of microplastics on soil and microbes
qwbdchbctt.d qwbdchbctt.d | Added: 13 Sep 2018
German scientists have conducted the first investigation into the physical and biological effects o…
High energy lasers get to the core of a problem
qwbdchbctt.d qwbdchbctt.d | Added: 31 Jul 2018
Scientists have discovered fresh insights into the metallic core at the centre of our planet.
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Giant volcanic eruption drove historic global warming event
qwbdchbctt.d qwbdchbctt.d | Added: 8 Dec 2017
New research by a group of international scientists suggests that an extreme global warming event 5…
Volcanic activity better understood after Bolivian expedition
qwbdchbctt.d qwbdchbctt.d | Added: 23 Nov 2016
A magmatic lake 15km below a dormant volcano in Bolivia may explain how and why volcanoes erupt. !-…
Molten silicon energy storage system created
qwbdchbctt.d qwbdchbctt.d | Added: 12 Oct 2016
A team of Spanish researchers are developing a system which allows energy to be stored in molten si…
Helium gas field found in Africa
qwbdchbctt.d qwbdchbctt.d | Added: 7 Jul 2016
Scientists have located a large helium gas field and hope that this find can replenish quickly-decr…
Ice melt to cause higher sea levels
qwbdchbctt.d qwbdchbctt.d | Added: 17 Feb 2016
If Antarctica ice melts due to warming oceans, global sea levels could rise three metres, according…
Nature not solely to blame for severe droughts
qwbdchbctt.d qwbdchbctt.d | Added: 15 Feb 2016
Drought researchers and managers must include human activity when looking at severe droughts, accor…
Volcanic event responsible for Jurassic Period ice age
qwbdchbctt.d qwbdchbctt.d | Added: 8 Jan 2016
Scientists have uncovered the reason behind an ice age that took place around 170 million years ago…
Martian valleys carved by less ancient water
qwbdchbctt.d qwbdchbctt.d | Added: 9 Dec 2015
Martian valleys could have been carved by much less water in a much shorter time span than previous…
Life hits 4.1 billion years
qwbdchbctt.d qwbdchbctt.d | Added: 3 Dec 2015
New evidence suggests that life on Earth began 300 million years earlier than previously thought.
