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May 28, 2020
Researchers at the University of Southampton have shown that an extinction event 360 million years ago, that killed much of the Earth's plant and freshwater aquatic life, was caused by a brief breakdown of the ozone layer that shields the Earth from damaging ultraviolet (UV) radiation.
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Apr 14, 2020
'A bad time to be alive': Study links ocean deoxygenation to ancient die-off - Persistent global marine euxinia in the early Silurian
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Jan 25, 2020
First study to characterize protists in soils from around the world--co-authored by Smithsonian scientists--found that the most common groups of soil protists behave exactly like Pac-Man: moving through the soil matrix, gobbling up bacteria
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Jan 24, 2020
A new species of meat-eating dinosaur (Allosaurus jimmadseni) was announced today. The huge carnivore inhabited the flood plains of western North America during the Late Jurassic Period, between 157-152 million years ago. It required 7 years to fully prepare all the bones of Allosaurus jimmadseni.
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Dec 12, 2019
Fukushima: Lessons learned from a case of soil decontamination. One of the cesium isotopes (137Cs) has a half-life of 30 years, it constitutes the highest risk to the local population in the long term, in the absence of decontamination it will remain in the environment for around three centuries.
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Jun 18, 2019
A new study at The University of Toledo connects the proximity of fracking to higher household concentrations of radon gas, the second leading cause of lung cancer in the U.S.
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Jun 12, 2019
Scientists discover a candidate for a potential new 'family' of enzymes that break down carbohydrates
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