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Life on Earth began 260 million years after the planet’s early atmosphere witnessed two major spikes in oxygen concentration. Researchers say these…

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  • July 14, 2014

John Kovac and his team created a sensation when they announced finding the evidence of primordial gravitational waves in March 2014, thus confirming the…

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  • June 2, 2014

A team of researchers headed by Simon Clark reported that they have found the "runaway star" that caused the Milky Way Galaxy's only magnetar—a rare type of neutron…

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  • May 15, 2014

Scientists have discovered an ancient tundra landscape under the Greenland Ice Sheet, preserved for 2.7 million years. This discovery provides strong…

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  • April 18, 2014

Physicists have made a groundbreaking finding by gathering evidence of a long-predicted twist in light from the big bang that represents the first image of…

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  • March 21, 2014

Using sophisticated plate tectonic and 3D numerical modeling, geoscientists have been able to show that break-up of the supercontinent Gondwana about 130…

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  • March 18, 2014

In a new study, researchers have concluded that the majority of circumbinary planets must have formed much further away from the central binary stars and then migrated to their current location.…

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  • February 4, 2014

Scientists have discovered the first binary system ever known to consist of a black hole and a Be star. Read on to know more. 

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  • January 29, 2014

According to a new study, the presence of molecular hydrogen, carbon dioxide, and water on Mars could have created a greenhouse effect on the red planet 3.…

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  • November 28, 2013

NASA’s Kepler spacecraft has uncovered a solar system whose planets orbit at a steep angle to their star’s equator. Read on to know more. 

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  • October 23, 2013