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Sponges Likely To Be The First Animals To Evolve On Earth
By Kamal Nayan | Mar 10, 2014 03:35 PM EDTSponges were most likely the first animals to evolve who helped in oxygenating the earth's oceans, according to a new study. The findings are the contrary to the traditional view that a rise in oxygen was responsible for their development.
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Plasma Shield Guarding Earth From Solar Storm
By Kamal Nayan | Mar 10, 2014 03:35 PM EDTThe Earth's magnetic field which is also known as magnetosphere, stretches from the planet's core out into space only to act as a shield to protect the Earth from the high-energy solar activity, a new research has found.
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Another Asteroid Buzzed By Earth
By Kamal Nayan | Mar 07, 2014 10:13 AM ESTFor the second day in a row, an asteroid buzzed past Earth.
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Kepler Team Finds 715 New Exoplanets
By Kamal Nayan | Feb 28, 2014 09:16 AM ESTIn a quest to find another watery planet with life, NASA's Kepler team has identified 715 new planets that are orbiting stars beyond solar system.
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Arctic Darkness Is Making Earth Warmer, Study Finds
By Kamal Nayan | Feb 20, 2014 10:53 AM ESTThe Arctic is not white and bright anymore as it used to be because of the reason that more ice is melting in the ocean leading to a major global problem, a new study has found.
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1 in 4 Americans Unaware Of The Fact That Earth Revolves Around the Sun
By Kamal Nayan | Feb 17, 2014 09:05 AM ESTOne in four Americans does not know that Earth revolves around the sun, according to a recent survey by National Science Foundation.
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Life On Earth Was Destroyed In 60,000 Years
By Kamal Nayan | Feb 15, 2014 12:09 PM ESTMore than 90 percent of all life on Earth was destroyed in just 60,000 years, according to the latest study of Permian mass extinction. Permian mass extinction is the greatest die-off in the past 540 million years.
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Scientists Confirm The Connection Between Salmon and Earth Magnetic Field
By Kamal Nayan | Feb 07, 2014 09:41 AM ESTScientists have confirmed the previous theory that suggested a correlation between the migration patterns of ocean salmon and Earth's magnetic field.
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Dogs Prefer To Poop In Alignment With Earth’s Magnetic Field
By Kamal Nayan | Jan 03, 2014 12:42 PM ESTDogs align themselves with the Earth’s north-south axis when going to the bathroom, scientists have discovered. Even the smallest change in Earth’s magnetic field can influence their position.
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Study Illustrates How Earth’s Crust And Mantle Looked 4 Billion Years Ago
By Kamal Nayan | Jan 02, 2014 12:40 PM ESTFour billion years ago, the Earth’s mantle was hotter than that of today, a new study finds. The temperatures were so high that the crust simply melted back into the mantle.
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Earth Likely To Get Warm Minimum 4C By 2100
By Kamal Nayan | Jan 01, 2014 02:41 PM ESTIf emissions of greenhouse gases were not curbed, the planet would heat up by a minimum of 4C by 2100, says a new scientific study.
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Earth Might Become Unlivable By 2100
By Kamal Nayan | Dec 27, 2013 10:32 AM ESTA new study has revealed that global warming is increasing at an alarming rate which might result into intense droughts. If not much was done to minimize the rapid increase in global warning, the earth might become unlivable by 2050 or 2100.
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Amazing Photo Taken by NASA of Earth and Saturn
By Jennifer Broderick | Nov 13, 2013 09:42 PM ESTNASA released a natural-color image of Saturn taken from space on Tuesday. The photo is the first in which Saturn, its moons and rings, and Earth, Venus and Mars all are visible.
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Earth-Size, Potentially Habitable Planets Are Abundant: NASA's Kepler FInds
By Jennifer Broderick | Nov 04, 2013 07:28 PM ESTAn estimated one in every five sun-like stars is orbited by a potentially habitable, Earth-size planet. This is great news as it means the universe has plentiful real estate that could be hospitable to life as we know it, according to a new analysis of observations by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope.
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How Much Time do we Have Left on Earth? Scientists Reveal Answer
By Jennifer Broderick | Sep 20, 2013 04:33 PM EDTSpeculation has come and gone as to when the world will end, but now scientists have put a date to when Earth will become unable to host life. Rest assured though, that day will only come some 1.75 billion years from now.
