First Oxygen Appeared On Earth Way Earlier Than We Realised
A team of geochemists has reported the discovery of rusty, iron-rich rock layers — a telltale sign of oxygen — in sediments deposited on shallow ocean floors some 3.2 billion years ago.
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A team of geochemists has reported the discovery of rusty, iron-rich rock layers — a telltale sign of oxygen — in sediments deposited on shallow ocean floors some 3.2 billion years ago.
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By the end of the century, billions of dollars of NASA assets could be underwater.
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Our eyes are a fundamental part of the human sensory system—but they’re complex things that can easily go wrong.
Magic! No, wait...SCIENCE!
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Oil and water truly don’t mix, and this is especially true if you try to throw water on an oil fire to quench the flames. Instead, it just goes BOOM!
Whenever a particle passes through a detector pad on the instrument, the result is a musical note and a flash of light.
This is what your brain looks like after it's been run through Google's Deep Dream neural network. Read More >>
Latin for “dark room,” conceptually, a camera obscura is the precursor to the pinhole camera, but the effect dates back at least to Aristotle.
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The Chinese government took extreme measures to guarantee clear skies for the its display, but it took less than 24 hours for air pollution to ramp up again afterwards.
