#Long dormant volcano comes to life in southwestern Iceland

#Long dormant volcano comes to life in southwestern Iceland

“#Long dormant volcano comes to life in southwestern Iceland” REYKJAVIK, Iceland — A long dormant volcano on the Reykjanes Peninsula in southwestern Iceland flared to life Friday night, spilling lava down two sides in that area’s first volcanic eruption in nearly 800 years. Initial aerial footage, posted on the Facebook page of the Icelandic Meteorological…

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#Mars is first inner planet after Earth to have core measured

#Mars is first inner planet after Earth to have core measured

“#Mars is first inner planet after Earth to have core measured” NASA’s InSight spacecraft has measured the size of Mars’ core for the first time.  The spacecraft launched in May 2018 and successfully landed on the red planet in November of that year.  InSight — which is short for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport — was created to study the early evolution of terrestrial planets…

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#Russian divers hunt for ancient bones in frozen river

#Russian divers hunt for ancient bones in frozen river

“#Russian divers hunt for ancient bones in frozen river” Ancient shark teeth, bones of woolly rhinoceros, mammoths and other extinct animals – those are rare artifacts which attract Russian paleontologists to the ice-covered Tobol river some 1,242 miles east of Moscow. For almost two decades scientists have teamed up with divers for a bone hunt…

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#Reawakened Yellowstone geyser won’t predict the volcanic ‘big one’

#Reawakened Yellowstone geyser won’t predict the volcanic ‘big one’

“#Reawakened Yellowstone geyser won’t predict the volcanic ‘big one’” The famous Steamboat geyser in Yellowstone National Park won’t foretell a major volcanic eruption, according to scientists. The geyser in the Norris Geyser basin shoots water more than 300 feet into the air during its major eruptions. Steamboat, which is the world’s tallest active geyser, reawakened with prolific eruptions in…

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#Slow and steady or a big spurt? How to grow a ferocious dinosaur

#Slow and steady or a big spurt? How to grow a ferocious dinosaur

“#Slow and steady or a big spurt? How to grow a ferocious dinosaur” WASHINGTON – Large meat-eating dinosaurs attained their great size through very different growth strategies, with some taking a slow and steady path and others experiencing an adolescent growth spurt, according to scientists who analyzed slices of fossilized bones. The researchers examined the…

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