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Earth and Venus Grew up as Rambunctious Planets

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Earth and Venus Grew up as Rambunctious Planets What doesn't stick comes around: Using machine learning and simulations of giant impacts, researchers at the Lunar and...

Researchers find oxygen spike coincided with ancient global extinction

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Now Florida State University researchers have found that the extinction coincided with a sudden spike and subsequent drop in the ocean's oxygen content. Their...

Lake Huron sinkhole surprise: The rise of oxygen on early Earth...

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An international research team, including researchers from the University of Michigan, is proposing that increasing day length on the early Earth may have boosted...

Changes in Earth’s orbit enabled the emergence of complex life

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'Snowball Earth' is the most extreme climate event in Earth's history, when it was completely engulfed in ice. The theory of its existence has...

Beer byproduct mixed with manure proves an excellent pesticide

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Studies demonstrate that byproducts from the beer and agricultural industry have been shown to reduce numbers of root-knot nematodes and other soil parasites, increase...

Surge in nitrogen has turned sargassum into the world’s largest harmful...

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Researchers from Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute and collaborators have discovered dramatic changes in the chemistry and composition of Sargassum due to anthropogenic emissions of...

More than 5,000 tons of extraterrestrial dust fall to Earth each...

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Every year, our planet encounters extraterrestrial dust from comets and asteroids. These interplanetary dust particles pass through our atmosphere and give rise to shooting...

From stardust to pale blue dot: Carbon’s interstellar journey to Earth

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Carbon on Earth, the ultimate journey. We are made of stardust, the saying goes, and a pair of studies including University of Michigan research...

Comet Catalina suggests comets delivered carbon to rocky planets

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Comets delivered carbon to rocky planets, and an icy visitor from the edge of our solar system hurtled past Earth in early 2016 to...

A new timeline of Earth’s cataclysmic past

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Earth's cataclysmic past is a fact. Welcome to the early solar system. Just after the planets formed more than 4.5 billion years ago, our...

Earth’s carbon points to planetary smashup

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The ratio of volatile elements in Earth's mantle suggests that virtually all of the planet's life-giving carbon came from a collision with an embryonic...