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ZME Science on MSNThis Is the Oldest Ice on the Planet and It’s About to Be Slowly Melted to Unlock 1.5 Million Years of Climate HistoryThe newest arrivals at a subzero lab in Cambridge are not just some blocks of ice — they are time machines. This month, ...
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The Daily Galaxy on MSNScientists Discover a Planet That Orbits in 24 Hours and a Giant Ice World That Takes 5 YearsAstronomers have recently uncovered a remarkable planetary system around the faint orange star WASP-132, featuring two ...
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Smithsonian Magazine on MSNScientists Will Melt the World’s ‘Oldest Ice’ to Reveal Its Secrets and Uncover a Climate Record of 1.5 Million YearsThe ice cores could offer clues about a period known as the Mid-Pleistocene Transition that has long puzzled scientists ...
A rocky planet with a 24-hour orbit and an ice giant that takes five years to complete its orbit have been detected orbiting ...
Earth has experienced both hot and cold periods over time, though warm times have been more common. That’s true of the last 485 million years, as seen in this timeline reported in 2024. Our genus, ...
‘We are hoping to unlock all these amazing secrets.’ The new core ice, which was drilled near the Concordia research station in the ‘White Continent,’ beats the previous 800,000-year-old ice, which ...
NISAR satellite, a groundbreaking NASA-ISRO collaboration, launches July 30 from Sriharikota. This Earth observation mission ...
For billions of years, the Moon's gravity has been acting like a handbrake slowing down our spin in a process known as 'tidal ...
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Smithsonian Magazine on MSNGiant Sloths and Many Other Massive Creatures Were Once Common on Our Planet. With Environmental Changes, Such Giants Could Thrive AgainIf large creatures like elephants, giraffes and bison are allowed to thrive, they could alter habitats that allow for the ...
The planet’s rotation fluctuates as it travels around the sun, and measurements suggest we’re losing more than a millisecond ...
A new satellite photo has revealed that the "megaberg," A23a, is beginning to break apart, spawning thousands of smaller ice chunks around the Antarctic island of South Georgia.
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