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The Moons real age is finally revealed, but the mystery of Earths tardy development lives on
2014-04-03 17:15:30| Extremetech
A new study has determined with 99.9% accuracy that the Moon was formed 95 million years after the birth of the Solar System. This pegs the Moon as being a lot younger than we previously thought -- and, perhaps more importantly, that our fair Earth's development was rather tardy, taking took a lot longer to form than we previously thought.
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Methane-spewing microbe blamed in Earth's worst mass extinction
2014-03-31 22:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A microbe that spewed humongous amounts of methane into Earth's atmosphere triggered a global catastrophe 252 million years ago that wiped out upwards of 90 percent of marine species and 70 percent of land vertebrates. That's the hypothesis offered on Monday by researchers aiming to solve one of science's enduring mysteries: what happened at the end of the Permian period to cause the worst of the five mass extinctions in Earth's history. The scale of this calamity made the one that doomed the...
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Cefic Supports WTO Ruling on Rare Earths
2014-03-31 04:14:00| Chemical Processing
European chemical industry is also being impacted by other markets that apply double pricing, export restrictions and export taxes, according to Cefic.
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IPCC Report: Climate Risks Grow As Earths Temperature Rises
2014-03-28 16:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: Fast-rising sea levels, declining fisheries, more air pollution and an ice-free Arctic summer are projected by scientists and government representatives from around the world meeting now in Yokohama to finalize the latest assessment of climate change impacts on human and natural systems. This report by Working Group II of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC, covers options for adaptation, and the interactions among climate changes, other stresses on societies and opportunities...
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Oldest Samples of Earth's Crust Dated Using Cameca® Instrumentation
2014-03-27 05:00:00| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
International Research Team Relies on CAMECA Atom Probe and Ion Mass Spectrometer to Determine Age and Geochemistry of 4.4-Billion-Year-Old Australian Zircon Crystal<br /> <br /> MADISON, WI – An international team of geoscientists, utilizing advanced microanalytical instruments, has determined that a tiny fragment of zircon crystal from Western Australia is about 4.4 billion years old, making it the oldest confirmed intact piece of the Earth's crust. The crystal, not much larger than ...This story is related to the following:Mass Spectrometers | Geological Instruments
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