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Eurasians Migrated from Africa 130,000 Years Ago, Study Finds

A team of researchers led by the University of Tübingen’s Professor Katerina Harvati has shown that anatomically modern humans spread from Africa to Asia and…

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Greenland’s Ancient Soil Reveals Surprising Green Discoveries

An international team of researchers, including a former scientist from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, has discovered that ancient dirt in Greenland…

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Miami’s Sea Level Rise Predictions Available Soon

Miami could know as early as 2020 how high sea levels will rise into the next century, according to a team of researchers including Florida International…

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Earthquake Simulation Surpasses One Quadrillion Flops on SuperMUC

Geophysicists use the SeisSol earthquake simulation software to investigate rupture processes and seismic waves beneath the Earth’s surface. Their goal is to…

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NASA's TRMM Satellite Adds Up Tropical Cyclone Ita's Australian Soaking

TRMM is a satellite managed by both NASA and JAXA, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. At NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. Hal Pierce…

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NASA Satellite Images Tropical Depression Peipah Over Philippines

NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite captured an image that showed Peipah's clouds covering the Visayas and Mindanao regions of the country.

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NASA Captures Tropical Cyclone Ita Over Coral Sea

The VIIRS instrument aboard NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite captured a visible look at Ita's elongating structure on April 14 at 4:12 UTC/12:12. The Visible…

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Decoding Miocene Climate Paradox: Insights from AWI Researchers

Scientists of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), have deciphered a supposed climate paradox from the Miocene…

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Early Tibetan Plateau Larger Than Previously Thought, Study Finds

Earth scientists in Syracuse University's College of Arts and Sciences have determined that the Tibetan Plateau—the world's largest, highest, and flattest…

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NASA Simulation Reveals Ozone Intrusions From the Stratosphere

Ozone in the stratosphere, located on average 10 to 48 kilometers (6 to 30 miles) above the ground, typically stays in the stratosphere. Not on days like April…

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Increase in Night-Shining Clouds: Insights from NASA’s AIM

A NASA mission called Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere, or AIM, was launched in 2007 to observe noctilucent clouds, but it currently only has a view of the…

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Tropical Cyclone Ita Strengthens, Heads Toward Queensland

Ita's maximum sustained winds were near 115 knots/132 mph/213 kph on April 10 at 0900 UTV/5 a.m. EDT, making it a Category Four hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson…

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Polarstern Returns: Insights from 1.5 Years in Antarctica

Apart from the crew and scientists on board, there are lots of data, samples and animals from the Southern Ocean that will soon be examined more closely in the…

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Ancient Impact Crater Discovered: Bigger Than Dinosaur Extinction

The collision punches a crater into the planet’s crust that’s nearly 500 kilometers (about 300 miles) across: greater than the distance from Washington, D.C….

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NASA's Aqua Satellite Reveals Tropical Cyclone Ita Strengthening

NASA's Aqua satellite passed over Ita at 3:30 UTC/11:30 p.m. EDT on April 7, and the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer provided a visible image of…

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Global Climate Trends: +0.14°C Increase Since 1978

Global climate trend since Nov. 16, 1978: +0.14 C per decade

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