Tag: organic

Birds nested alongside dinosaurs in the Arctic: Fossil find pushes polar nesting record back by 25 million years

PALEONTOLOGY
Spring in the Arctic brings forth a plethora of peeps and downy hatchlings as millions of birds gather to raise their young. The same was true 73 million years ago, according to a paper featured on the cover of Science....

How Greenland’s glacial troughs influence ocean circulation

EARTH
The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) serves as the Atlantic Ocean's conveyor belt, transporting warm water north toward the Arctic Circle and returning cold, dense water back to the tropics. Nearshore areas off Greenland are critical...

Ceres: Where does its organic material come from?

ASTRONOMY
The dwarf planet Ceres, which is around 960 kilometers in size, orbits the outer edge of the asteroid belt - and is an oddity...

Dwarf planet Ceres may have received organic material from space objects

ASTRONOMY
The organic material found in a few areas on the surface of dwarf planet Ceres is probably of exogenic origin. Impacting asteroids from the...

New evidence of organic material identified on Ceres, the inner solar system’s most water-rich object after Earth

ASTRONOMY
Six years ago, NASA's Dawn mission communicated with Earth for the last time, ending its exploration of Ceres and Vesta, the two largest bodies...

Each glacier has a unique organic matter composition, study reveals

OCEANOGRAPHY
Melting glaciers release more than just water. Organic matter once trapped in ice can run into streams and rivers, where it becomes food for...

Possible organic compounds found in Mars crater rocks

MARS
A study published in Science analyses multiple rocks found at the bottom of Jezero Crater on Mars, where the Perseverance rover landed in 2020,...

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