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A giant extraterrestrial 'wave' hit Earth 14 million years ago — and may have dramatically altered our planet's climate
making it especially challenging to detect a signal from an event that occurred 14 million years ago. "The challenges in peering far back into the history of the Earth's climate clearly limit our ...
Scientists Uncover a Galactic Encounter That May Have Changed Earth’s Climate
Millions of years ago, our Solar System sailed through the Orion Complex, part of the vast Radcliffe Wave structure. This ...
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The origins of ocean 'dead zones'
An international team looks back 12 million years for clues about the formation of these vast ... according to Boston College Assistant Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences Xingchen “Tony” ...
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Life May Have Emerged a Cosmic Eyeblink after the Big Bang
The smaller simulated star survived for roughly 12 million years before dying as a supernova, ejecting 17,000 Earth masses of oxygen into the surrounding interstellar medium. The larger star only ...
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Our next ice age is due in 10,000 years, but there's a catch
"We found a predictable pattern over the past million years for the timing of when Earth's climate changes between glacial 'ice ages' and mild warm periods like today, called interglacials ...