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Salinity Shapes How Ice Dissolves Iron Minerals

How do frozen environments influence chemical reactions? This is what a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated how rusty orange rivers observed in Arctic regions could be from ice dissolving iron minerals much faster than ...

Rethinking Mercury's Origins: Common Collisions, Not Catastrophic Ones

What type of impact created Mercury’s giant core and thin crust? This is what a recent study published in Nature Astronomy hopes to address as a team of scientists investigated the impact processes that caused Mercury to lose a large chunk of its crust and ...

Ocean Hot Spots Drive Rapid Hurricane Expansion

Why do some hurricanes grow much larger than others? This is what a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated the processes responsible for hurricane sizes, specifically regarding ocean conditions. This study has the ...

Exo-Pluto Shredded by White Dwarf's Gravity

What will our solar system look like after the Sun dies? This is what a recent study published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society hopes to address as a team of scientists investigated how a white dwarf star is consuming an icy and rocky exoplanet in a far-off solar system. This study has the ...

K2-18b: Not the Ocean World Once Imagined

Are Hycean exoplanets, which are a combination of hydrogen and a potential liquid water ocean, less common than previously hypothesized? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes to address as a team of scientists challenged how characteristics of a recently discovered ...

How the Turkana People Have Genetically Adapted to Desert Living

US and Kenyan researchers have collaborated on a study that has revealed more about genetic adaptations in people that have occurred because of environmental pressures. This effort focused on people known as the Turkana who live in north Kenya, in a hot, arid region. The work has shown how genetic changes have ...

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