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Research: Drying process could be key step in the development of life
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
New research could help explain crucial early steps on the path of life that led from a pool filled with simple amino acids to bacteria, redwood trees and people.
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Giant mantle plume reveals Mars is more active than previously thought
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
On Earth, shifting tectonic plates reshuffle the planet's surface and make for a dynamic interior, so the absence of such processes on Mars led many to think of it as a dead planet, where not much happened in the past 3 billion years.
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Newly formed craters located on Mars hold clues about atmosphere and inter
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 30 (ANI): An international team of researchers with NASA's InSight mission located four new craters created by impacts on the arssurface of M. Using data from a seismometer and visuals acquired from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, the team successfully calculated
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Study finds Earth's most devastating mass extinctions triggered by slowing
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 14 (ANI): Scientists have shed new light on the timing and likely cause of major volcanic events that occurred millions of years ago and caused such climatic and biological upheaval that they drove some of the most devastating extinction events in Earth's history.
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Scientists uncover evidence that the Late Cretaceous hosted icy conditions
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 12 (ANI): Let's pretend it's the Late Cretaceous, roughly 66 to 100 million years ago. We've got dinosaurs roaming the land and odd-looking early species of birds, although the shark as we know it is already swimming in the prehistoric oceans which cover 82% of Ear
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Study: Explosive volcanic eruption produced rare mineral on Mars
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 26 (ANI): Planetary scientists have an answer to a mystery that's puzzled the Mars research community since NASA's Curiosity rover discovered a mineral called tridymite in Gale Crater.
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Japan's Sakurajima volcano erupts, alert level raised to 5
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], July 25 (ANI): Japan's Sakurajima volcano, located in Kagoshima Prefecture, erupted around 8:05 p.m. local time (7:05 a.m. ET) on Sunday, prompting evacuations in the region.
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Computers can detect chemical blasts, volcanic eruptions by artificial exp
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Alaska [US], July 23 (ANI): A new study has found that computers can be trained to better detect distant nuclear detonations, chemical blasts and volcano eruptions by learning from artificial explosion signals.
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Environmental destruction from volcanic eruptions can cause mass extinctio
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Tohuku Region [Japan], July 23 (ANI): Research conducted at Tohuku University have found evidence pointing to a relationship between the magnitude of mass extinctions and global temperature changes in geologic times.
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Philippine volcanic institute raises alert level for Taal volcano
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Manila [Philippine], March 26 (ANI/Xinhua): The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology raised the alert level for Taal volcano, near Manila, on Saturday due to "increasing unrest."
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Ancient ice reveals scores of gigantic volcanic eruptions: Study
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Copenhagen [Denmark], March 17 (ANI): New research led by the University of Copenhagen, Antarctica and Greenland has revealed gigantic volcanic eruptions during the last ice age. Sixty-nine of these were larger than any eruption in modern history.
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RS members observe silence in memory of those killed in Malaysia rainfall,
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 2 (ANI): Members of Rajya Sabha observed silence in the memory of the people who lost their lives in heavy rainfall in Malaysia and volcanic eruption in Tonga.
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