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Organic Carbon Hides in Sediments, Keeping Oxygen in Atmosphere

June 13, 2019

Knowing exactly how such carbon becomes locked away in rock and sediments could help explain why the mixture of gases in the ...

Yellowstone's Steaming Acid Pools of Death

September 6, 2018

The American Chemical Society's Reactions series looks at Yellowstone National Parks famous hot springs.

Ice Sheets of the Last Ice Age Seeded the Ocean with Silica

August 10, 2018

New research led by glaciologists and isotope geochemists from the University of Bristol has found that melting ice sheets pr...

Which Came First: Complex Life or High Atmospheric Oxygen?

January 5, 2018

Deep ocean basalts record 3.5-billion-year history of oceanic and atmospheric oxygen levels

Discovery of Boron on Mars Adds to Evidence for Habitability

September 7, 2017

The discovery of boron on Mars gives scientists more clues about whether life could have ever existed on the planet

Techniques Used in Forensic Science Help Discover New Molecular Fossils

August 31, 2017

Researchers believe that by analyzing the fossils using the GC-MS method, it will be easier to find archaea in sedimenta...

Teledyne CETAC Technologies Introduces the new Aridus3 Desolvating Nebulizer System

August 22, 2017

The next generation desolvating nebulizer system for inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS).

Mars Rover Reveals Ancient Lake with Properties Common to Those on Earth

June 5, 2017

Findings published in the journal Science

'Weather Whiplash' Triggered by Changing Climate Will Degrade Midwest's Drinking Water, Researchers Say

March 31, 2017

The research team took a close look at a 2012-2013 drought and flood cycle that affected much of the Midwestern U.S., leading...

Deliberate Flooding Can Revive Wetlands, but There's a Downside

July 8, 2016

Floodwaters return to the Colorado River but can release greenhouse gases

How Turning CO2 into Rock Could Help Mitigate Climate Change

June 13, 2016

Researchers' results show that between 95 and 98 per cent of the injected CO2 was mineralized over a period of less...

Appalachian Coal Ash Richest in Rare Earth Elements

May 30, 2016

Concentrations are highest in coal from the Appalachian Mountains

In These Microbes, Iron Works Like Oxygen

April 15, 2016

Some of the iron-metabolizing bacteria appear quite early on the tree of life, making the studies relevant to discovering the...

Making Magma Helps Researchers Understand Volcanoes

March 21, 2016

Magma re-creation, along with other research, helps researchers to understand eruptions and possibly ways to better predict t...

Reducing Water Scarcity Possible by 2050

September 3, 2014

Increased water-recycling and improved irrigation techniques among six strategies identified as key to successfully reducing ...

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