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Geologists ‘resurrect’ missing tectonic plate
The existence of a tectonic plate called Resurrection has long been a topic of debate among geologists, with some arguing it was never real....
Chemists develop new material for the separation of carbon dioxide from industrial waste gases
Chemists at the University of Bayreuth have developed a material that could well make an important contribution to climate protection and sustainable industrial production....
Depths of the Weddell Sea are warming five times faster than elsewhere
Over the past three decades, the depths of the Antarctic Weddell Sea have warmed five times faster than the rest of the ocean at...
Evidence of broadside collision with dwarf galaxy discovered in Milky Way
Nearly 3 billion years ago, a dwarf galaxy plunged into the center of the Milky Way and was ripped apart by the gravitational forces...
Energy scavenging nanogenerator finds power all around us
Imagine a mobile phone charger that doesn't need a wireless or mains power source. Or a pacemaker with inbuilt organic energy sources within the...
Researchers find bovid and rhinocerous species in Tibetan Plateau about 5,200 years ago
A research team led by Prof. Su Bing from Kunming Institute of Zoology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, collaborating with the researchers from...
Humans and climate drove giants of Madagascar to extinction
Nearly all Madagascan megafauna—including the famous dodo bird, gorilla-sized lemurs, giant tortoises, and the Elephant Bird, which stood 3 meters tall and weighted close...
Superconductor technology for smaller, sooner fusion
Scientists have long sought to harness fusion as an inexhaustible and carbon-free energy source. Within the past few years, groundbreaking high-temperature superconductor technology (HTS)...
Research team discovers uniquely quantum effect in erasing information
Researchers from Trinity have discovered a uniquely quantum effect in erasing information that may have significant implications for the design of quantum computing chips....
Climate change likely drove early human species to extinction, modeling study suggests
Of the six or more different species of early humans, all belonging to the genus Homo, only we Homo sapiens have managed to survive....
Driver of the largest mass extinction in the history of the Earth identified
Life on Earth has a long, but also an extremely turbulent history. On more than one occasion, the majority of all species became extinct...
