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Hot Blobs In Earth’s Mantle From Moon-Forming Impact Possibly Started Plate Tectonics
IFLScience· 2 days agoEvidence has been found that a subduction event, the driver of plate tectonics, occurred exceptionally early in Earth’s formation, contradicting existing ...
Blackout-causing 'super' solar storms happen more often than we thought
The Weather Network via Yahoo News· 9 hours agoWe on Earth are largely protected from all of this activity due to our planet's atmosphere and...
Our neighboring galaxy's supermassive black hole would probably be a polite dinner guest
Space via Yahoo News· 6 hours agoAt about 2.5 million light-years from Earth, the Andromeda galaxy is the nearest major galaxy to the...
"Giant impact" may have set off plate tectonics
Newsweek· 1 day agoThe plate tectonics that determined the shape of our continents may have originated from a huge impact billions of years ago. This huge collision with...
Enhanced Geothermal Energy Could Be the Next Zero-Carbon Hero | JD Supra
JD Supra· 19 hours agoHydrogen, solar, wind—and even microwave beams from outer space—are a few of the alternative energies being explored as the world strives to cut the cord on carbon emissions. Recently, advancements ...
Don’t Panic—At Least, Not about a Nearby Supernova
Scientific American· 15 hours agoHappily that’s usually the case; of the thousands of supernovae that astronomers find every year, most are hundreds of millions of light-years from us—so...
Why Hot Jupiters Spiral into Their Stars
Universe Today· 10 hours agoExoplanets are a fascinating astronomy topic, especially the so-called “Hot Jupiters”. Extreme gravitational interactions can tug them right into their...
Two giant blobs lurk deep within the Earth, but why?
Popular Science via Yahoo News· 3 days agoThe study posits that these blobs themselves then created our planet’s plate tectonics, which allowed life to flourish. A new look at some very old...
Exoplanet WASP-69b has a cometlike tail – this unique feature is helping scientists like me learn...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 3 days agoAs for the Hot Neptune Desert, most Neptune-sized planets simply are...When observed, the atmosphere...
How hot is too hot for human survival? Here’s the new answer.
San Antonio Express-News· 5 days agoOver the past several years, extreme heat has frequently made the headlines. According to NOAA’s...