Bitter Harvest: The Dirty Little Secret of Strawberry Fields
Researchers have identified an alarming source of plastic pollution in Californian strawberry farms. Plastic mulch, a common tool in promoting strawberry growth, has been found…
Goldschmidt Conference News
Rewinding Lunar Time: “Man in the Moon” Gets His Clock Reset by 200 Million Years
Researchers fhave reconciled conflicting methods of dating the Moon’s surface, revealing that parts of its crust are about 200 million years older than previously thought….
Salt Power: The Lithium-Sodium Fusion Revolutionizing Batteries
Arizona State University researchers are working on a potential game-changer for battery technology: mixing lithium and sodium. Their aim is to cut costs and stabilize…
Astronomical Boost: Chances of Finding Water on Alien Worlds Increased by x100
New research presented at the Goldschmidt geochemistry conference suggests a significantly higher likelihood of finding Earth-like exoplanets with liquid water, essential for life, than previously…
Goldilocks Planets “With a Tilt” Like Earth Are More Capable of Evolving Complex Life
Planets which are tilted on their axis, like Earth, are more capable of evolving complex life. This finding will help scientists refine the search for…
Early Earth Was Bombarded by Barrage of City-Sized Asteroids – Perhaps 10x More Huge Impactors Than Thought
Scientists know that the Earth was bombarded by huge impactors in distant time, but a new analysis suggests that the number of these impacts may…
Ancient Diamonds Show Earth Was Primed for Life’s Explosion of Diversity at Least 2.7 Billion Years Ago
A unique study of ancient diamonds has shown that the basic chemical composition of the Earth’s atmosphere which makes it suitable for life’s explosion of…
New Forensics Method to Identify Dirt on Criminals Can Lead to Prosecution
Scientists have taken the first steps in developing a new method of identifying the movements of criminals using chemical analysis of soil and dust found…
Mediterranean Silver Trade Reconstructed – From Trojan War to Roman Republic
Researchers have reconstructed the Eastern Mediterranean silver trade, over a period including the traditional dates of the Trojan War, the founding of Rome, and the…
Why Are There Gold Deposits at All? Scientists Discover the Answer
Why are gold deposits found at all? Gold is famously unreactive, and there seems to be little reason why gold should be concentrated, rather than…
The City of David and the 80 Million-Year-Old Sharks’ Teeth Mystery
Scientists have discovered an unexplained cache of fossilized shark teeth in an area where there should be none — in a 2,900-year-old site in the…
NASA Scientists Believe Jupiter’s Moon Europa Could Sustain Life
A new model from NASA scientists supports the theory that the interior ocean in Jupiter’s moon Europa would be able to sustain life. In addition,…
