The Great Wall of China is 300 years older than we thought
The Great Wall of China wasn’t a single construction project, but rather a series of defensive and border fortifications ...
Humans evolved to live on an icy planet. Earth is usually much hotter.
As Earth approaches warmer levels experienced earlier in its geologic history, it may be bad news for human survival.
Carnivorous dinosaurs thrived in Australia 120 million years ago, new fossils show
One of the Victorian carcharodontosaur shinbones was found on the Otway Coast. The other was found on the Bass Coast, in ...
Back to the Miocene: What the climate 13.8 million years ago could tell us about our future world
P rojections of our future under climate change paint a picture of extreme weather and acidified oceans, a world many of ...
Scientists understood physics of climate change in the 1800s – thanks to a woman named Eunice Foote
(THE CONVERSATION) Long before the current political divide over climate change, and even before the U.S. Civil War (1861-1865), an American scientist named Eunice Foote documented the underlying ...
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Scientists Solve the Mystery of the Underwater Event That Wiped Out 90 Percent of Life on Earth
The new study deciphered the single-most greatest mass extinction on Earth driven by a natural calamity that still exists.
TECHNOBABBLE: Do we really need to leave Earth?
Just over 110 years ago, the Wright Brothers took flight for the first time. Just over 45 years ago, people walked on the moon. It took just over 60 years for us to go from the first powered ...
NEOWISE, the NASA mission that cataloged objects around Earth for over a decade, has come to an end
(THE CONVERSATION) The NASA project NEOWISE, which has given astronomers a detailed view of near-Earth objects – some of which could strike the Earth – ended its mission and burned on reentering the ...
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Elon Musk Launched His Tesla Roadster Into Space 7 Years Ago—It Was Just Seen Again
According to SpaceX’s own calculation, the Roadster completed its first orbit around the Sun in August 2019 and made its ...
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Picente allocates $150,000 for Rome B-52 repair
Oneida County Executive Anthony Picente announced on Wednesday, February 5 that the county has allocated $150,000 to move ... been a staple at Griffiss Business and Technology Park for years, ...
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Near-Earth asteroid Bennu could hit Earth in 157 years and set off a global ‘impact winter,’ study says
The asteroid that slammed into Earth 66 million years ago and led to the extinction of dinosaurs was estimated to be about 6.2 miles (10 kilometers) in diameter and marked the last known large ...