Earth scientists are trying to determine our planet's history through a variety of means, but recently they took to doing so by studying diamonds, some of the most expensive and rare rocks in the world.Though, for commercial applications, clear diamonds are priceless, researchers are looking for the exact opposi... |
7 October 2010
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For years, astronomers have known about the existence of the peculiar, elliptical Orcus Patera crater on Mars, but it was only recently that experts at the European Space Agency (ESA) took a closer look at the structure. The landscape feature is located between two Martian volcanoes, called Elysium Mons and Olympus M... |
27 August 2010
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As scientific instruments become more sensitive to measurements, the accuracy of scientific studies increases as well. But more precision equals more questions, as issues that had once been concealed by the lack of proper equipment are now starting to show and challenge existing theories. One such instance is represe... |
12 May 2010
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Astronomers have discovered a large number of Jupiter-sized exoplanets inside the Milky Way, which were at first thought to be nothing more than space rocks. These celestial bodies, found orbiting their parent stars at various distances, can have Earth-like masses, but can also grow to be the size of a gas giant. Ast... |
2 December 2009
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While mountains generally look like they've been there for ages, in some cases that's not true – at least as far as geology goes. Through the nature of their profession, geologists look at things that are, for instance, 120 million years old and say that they are fairly young. Such is the case with th... |
16 June 2009
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According to new investigations, it would appear that the eastern part of the Andes, especially that in Colombia, is, in fact, much older than previously estimated. Newly collected data shows that the faults that started giving birth to the mountains in fact became active some 25 million years ago, rather than seven ... |
18 May 2009
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Ever since the beginning of the Space Age, astronomers believed that the most important condition a planet had to fulfill in order to be able to sustain at least basic forms of life was to be in its star's “habitable zone,” an orbital area around each sun where the temperature was just right for liqu... |
19 February 2009
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According to new research results, made available by scientists at the GFZ German Research Center for Geosciences, and published in the latest issue of the journal Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, the continents atop the mantle over the inner core of our planet have an insulating role, and allow heat to ... |
23 January 2009
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