Discovery

'Revolutionary' discovery of world's oldest DNA breaks million-year record

‘Revolutionary’ discovery of world’s oldest DNA breaks million-year record

Reconstruction of the Kap København formation two million years ago at a time when the temperature was significantly warmer than the far north of Greenland today. 1 credit A new ‘game-changing’ chapter in evolutionary history has been opened after two million years DNA DNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid, is a molecule made up of two long …

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Surprising Martian Discovery: Massive Mantle Plume Pushing Mars Surface Up

Surprising Martian Discovery: Massive Mantle Plume Pushing Mars Surface Up

An artist’s impression of an active mantle plume – a large mass of hot, floating rock – rising from deep within Mars and pushing Elysium Planitia, a plain in the planet’s northern lowlands. The volcanism at Elysium Planitia originates from the Cerberus Fossae, highlighted in red, a collection of young fissures that stretch more than …

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