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Did Earth lose its solar shield? Researchers find 10-million-year beryllium surge in sediments
In one scenario, the unusual radioactive accumulation could have been caused by a sudden and drastic change in ocean circulation around Antarctica 10 to 12 million years ago. Alternatively, Earth ...
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Supernova graveyard? 10 million years ago, neutron stars crashed on Earth, reveal traces
Do we live in a supernova graveyard? A team of researchers proposes that 10 million years ago two giant neutron stars crashed ...
Scientists Found 10 Million-Year-Old Remnants of a Massive Kilonova in the Bottom of the Ocean
Plutonium discovered at the bottom of the ocean was found to be refuse from a kilonova that exploded close to Earth 10 ...
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Birth of the Himalaya
The continents are carried by the Earth's tectonic plates like people ... they crumpled into mountain ranges—the Himalayas. By 10 million years ago the two continents were in direct collision ...
New research sheds light on earliest days of Earth's formation
New research led by a York University professor sheds light on the earliest days of Earth's formation and potentially calls ...
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The next ice age is coming in 10,000 years — unless climate change prevents it
Natural cycles in Earth's rotational axis and its orbit around the sun drive climatic changes, and now researchers have ...
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Scientists match Earth’s ice age cycles with orbital shifts
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) — Beginning around 2.5 million years ago, Earth entered an era marked by successive ice ages and interglacial periods, emerging from the last glaciation around 11,700 ...