The heavy bombardment of terrestrial planets by asteroids from space has contributed to the formation of the early evolved crust on Earth that later gave rise to continents – home to human...
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| 1/31/2019
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Scientists have revealed how Earth may have got its crust. Before it split into the continents we know today, it was formed from gigantic pools of molten rock caused by asteroids bombarding the...
The heavy bombardment of terrestrial planets by asteroids from space has contributed to the formation of the early evolved crust on Earth. The heavy bombardment of terrestrial planets by asteroids...
Earth's continents may have been born under large mountain ranges like the Andes. New research combining a mysterious missing trace element, a 66-million-year-old rock burped up by an ancient...
by Filmmaker Staff DP Nicholas de Pencier has long collaborated with his wife, director Jennifer Baichwal, on her projects. One of their most acclaimed films, Manufactured Landscapes, was a profile...
Alex Lazarow works at the intersection of investing, innovation and economic development across the public, private and social sectors. He is a venture capitalist with Cathay Innovation and an...
The study, published Nov. 15 in Earth and Planetary Science Letters, describes how sediment moving under or subducting beneath tectonic plates could regulate the movement of the plates and may even...
A new study by The University of Texas at Austin has demonstrated a possible link between life on Earth and the movement of continents. The findings show that sediment, which is often comprised from...
A new map reveals the remnants of ancient continents lurking beneath Antarctica's ice. According to a new study, the map shows that East Antarctica is made up of multiple cratons, which are the...
Ancient continents were found under Antarctic ice, thanks to old data from a now-dead European satellite. New analysis of data from the Gravity Field and Steady-State Ocean Circulation Explorer...
A new map reveals the remnants of ancient continents that lurk beneath Antarctica's ice. The map shows that East Antarctica is made up of multiple cratons, which are the cores of continents that...
Fausto Ferraccioli, Science Leader of Geology and Geophysics at the British Antarctic Survey, said: “These gravity images are revolutionising our ability to study the least understood continent on...
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| 11/9/2018
| Harry Pettit For Mailonline
The European Space Agency (ESA) has unveiled relics of lost continents that have hidden under Antarctica for millions of years. New satellite images reveal a timeline of the ancient landmasses...
When it comes to the search for extra-terrestrial life, scientists have a tendency to be a bit geocentric – i.e. they look for planets that resemble our own. This is understandable, seeing as how...
When it comes to the search for extra-terrestrial life, scientists have a tendency to be a bit geocentric – i.e. they look for planets that resemble our own. This is understandable, seeing as how...
A minuscule beetle trapped in amber for 99 million years reveals that Myanmar was once one with South America. "Although Propiestus went extinct long ago, our finding probably shows some amazing...
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| 8/22/2018
| Cheyenne Macdonald For Dailymail.com
Researchers have unveiled a new map of the world that shows a truer representation of the continents’ sizes. Cartographers throughout the centuries have come up with all sorts of ways to project...
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| 8/19/2018
| Cheyenne Macdonald For Dailymail.com
A hypnotic new animation has revealed the journey of the continents over 540 million years, as huge landmasses drifted around the globe before settling into the positions we know today.
Scrolling through Instagram, I saw my friend post a picture grinning from Morocco. What? I'd seen her post from the Blue Lagoon in Iceland a few days before, and from London before that.
The small fossil is evidence that the super-continental split likely occurred more recently than scientists previously thought and that a group of reptile-like mammals that bridge the reptile and...
A large crack, stretching several kilometres, made a sudden appearance recently in south-western Kenya. The tear, which continues to grow, caused part of the Nairobi-Narok highway to collapse and...
Luxury cruise company Silversea has announced a new "Legends of Cruising World Cruise" that will take passengers through all seven continents. The journey begins in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and...
Luxury line Silversea has announced plans for a world cruise to all seven continents — an industry first. The 140-day voyage on the 382-passenger Silver Whisper will kick off Jan.
Plants and animals are generally thought to colonize from continents to islands, over time leading to the evolution of separate island species. Scientists have theorized that the reverse –...
A figure illustrating the how the mid-lithospheric discontinuity (labeled MLD) could cause the continent’s root to detach from the continental plate (Stage 1), which is then overtaken by the oceanic...
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| 10/3/2017
| Anneta Konstantinides For Daily Mail Australia
Sixteen countries, four continents, less than one year. This is the incredible travel itinerary of billionaire heiress Chryseis Tan, who shares her enviable jet-setting lifestyle with more than...
Plate tectonics shape the Earth's dynamic surface. But when did these dynamics first emerge? And will the present-day continents last forever? Researchers from Germany and Switzerland have used...
Priyadarshi Chowdhury and Prof Dr Sumit Chakraborty from Ruhr-Universität Bochum, together with Prof Dr Taras Gerya from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich (ETH), present their work...
(Phys.org)—A trio of researchers with the University of Southampton in the U.K. has used a new technique to gain a better perspective on the thickness of the Earth's continents.
Siana and Alex are were wed earlier this year and currently live in a quaint apartment in the Atlanta neighborhood of Virginia-Highland. While Alex is doing research for his PhD at Georgia Institute...
Large, robust, lens-shaped microfossils from the approximately 3.4 billion-year-old Kromberg Formation of the Kaapvaal Craton in eastern South Africa are not only among the oldest elaborate...
The image, which contrasts the barren planet of now to the lush environment that could have supported life, was published with the results of a study into just how the Red Planet lost its atmosphere...
Mail Online
| 3/22/2017
| Donald Houston With The Conversation
Boston public schools recently announced that they will shift to using world maps based on the Peters projection, reportedly the first time a US public school district has done so.
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| 3/16/2017
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An elderly woman from Kansas City, Missouri, celebrated her 70th birthday earlier this year by running seven marathons across all seven continents — in just seven days.
PYEONCHANG, South Korea (AP) — Nathan Chen became the first man in history to land five quadruple jumps in a single performance at an ISU championship event to win the Four Continents on Sunday.
Mail Online
| 2/16/2017
| Naomi Leach For Mailonline
While some are aware that 2D maps fail to accurately convey the scale of countries and continents on Earth, a mind-boggling new infographic reveals the true extent of this distortion.
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| 1/20/2017
| Mary Kekatos For Dailymail.com
It was in the middle of a race that runner BethAnn Telford first knew that something was wrong. She heard a loud pop in her head as she ran the Marine Corps Marathon in October 2004, but completed...
When you visit the beach, don't you ever wonder which countries lie beyond the sea horizon? Although you might think the answer is easy, you probably didn't take into account...
T. Sumner. Earth’s mantle is cooling faster than expected. Science News Online, December 14, 2016. T. Sumner. New fascination with Earth's 'Boring Billion.’ Science News. Vol.
Before it split into the continents we know today, Earth was home to just a single landmass, or "supercontinent," called Pangea. Over tens of millions of years, as the familiar story goes, these...
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| 7/21/2016
| Lucy Mae Beers For Daily Mail Australia
An interactive map has revealed just how Australia's 7.7 million square-kilometre land mass measures up to other continents - and completely dwarfs the United Kingdom and Europe.
Running a single marathon, let alone seven of them on all seven continents is a feat in itself. But Cheryl Hile hopes to take that up a notch and become the first runner with multiple sclerosis to...