Cristales australianos apuntan a la existencia de agua dulce, así como de continentes que se elevaban sobre el océano Hadeano de la Tierra.
Nathaniel Scharping
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Ocean Spray Is Relatively Lifeless
Organic contributions from ocean organisms are sparse in sea spray, helping to clarify predictions of its impact on the climate.
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From Sun to Earth: A New Network for Comprehensive Space Weather Monitoring
The Chinese Meridian Project combines hundreds of instruments for a detailed, three-dimensional view of the solar-terrestrial environment.
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A Path Toward Understanding Regional Sea Level Rise
Finer-resolution models, as well as an improved understanding of ocean shelf–sea processes, are key to understanding the way different coastlines will be affected by rising waters, extreme storm surges, and waves.
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Coronal Mass Ejection Gives Earth’s Magnetosphere Rare “Wings”
A massive disturbance in the solar wind caused Earth’s magnetosphere to fly without its usual tail.
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More Than Half of Contiguous U.S. River Water Comes from Ephemeral Streams
The finding has potential implications for water regulations, which don’t currently cover these seasonal streams.
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Imaging Below the Surface Reveals One of Los Angeles’s Webs of Faults
Damage zones extend to either side of many faults and can affect how future earthquakes behave.
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Aliyah Griffith: Ocean Scientist, Explorer, Mermaid
A marine biologist is studying coral reefs and making ocean sciences more tenable for young explorers.
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Four-Billion-Year-Old Zircons May Contain Our Earliest Evidence of Fresh Water
Australian crystals hint at fresh water, as well as land rising above Earth’s Hadean ocean.
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Tracing Millions of Years of Geologic Stress in the Andean Plateau
Paleostress modeling shows how a region of the Andean Plateau was uplifted and formed beginning more than 20 million years ago.