Archeology
The truth about the world's top 'dinosaur gold mine' in China
Scientists have just discovered what makes Yixian, a world where dinosaurs seem to have frozen in time.
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Discover 33 strange gems that help 'turn back time' on Earth
The 33 precious zircon crystals, which look like extremely dark rubies, are time capsules that help reveal what happened on Earth 3.3 to 4.15 billion years ago.
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Surprise about the first continent to 'pierce' the Earth's ocean
A new study has pushed back the time when the first continent appeared hundreds of millions of years back, with a very strange and mysterious way of rising out of the oc…
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Asteroid crater is over 2.2 billion years old
The oldest crater on Earth in the town of Yarrabubba has a diameter of nearly 70km.
Archeology
The 29 million-year-old stone on the necklace of pharaoh Tutankhamun
The big stone in the center of the pharaoh Tutankhamun's necklace is the result of a collision when the meteorite crashed into the Earth 29 million years ago.
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Russia receives more terrible weapons than Zircon
This is a new type of missile, capable of being on standby for long periods of time on the seabed and then following orders to destroy targets at sea or on the ground.
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The Earth used to be a
The earth was flat and almost covered by the ocean, only a few small islands jutted out of the water, a new study says.
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New discovery about the formation of Earth's crust
According to research results published February 23, the Earth is thought to have formed about 4.5 billion years ago.
Archeology
Ancient minerals reveal the harsh climate on the continents
A new study of ancient minerals called zircon shows that once existed a harsh climate, perhaps destroying the surface of the new continents formed on Earth.
Space science
Meteors created the oldest rocks of the Earth
According to Nature Geoscience, some of the oldest rocks on Earth can form due to the melting of basalt during the meteorite bombardment of the Earth.
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Huge meteorites make the Earth hot to 2,300 degrees Celsius
According to Sputnik, 37 million years ago, a giant meteorite 5 km in diameter once crashed into Earth, in the area of present-day Canada, creating a crater up to 28 k…
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The scientific world has found the exact age of the Moon
Based on the stone samples collected from the Apollo 14, scientists determined that the Moon's actual age was 4.51 billion years.
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Life on Earth may have started over 4 billion years ago
Life may have existed on Earth from 4.1 billion years ago, not just 3.8 billion years as previously estimated.
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4.5 billion year old meteorite revealed life on Mars
A Martian meteorite discovered in the Sahara dates back about 4.5 billion years and may contain secrets of life that once existed on the Red Planet.
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Explore the surface of the Moon
For a long time, scientists knew the existence of zircon particles on the Moon. However, concerns about zircon beads have faded over the past one to two decades.