| Archaeology Tipoffs from TNS Newsletter for Sunday August 18, 2024 ( 2 items ) |
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Fingerprinting the Asteroid That Determined the Fate of the Dinosaurs
BRUSSELS, Belgium, Aug. 17 (TNSres) -- Free University of Brussels-VUB issued the following news release:
A team of geoscientists, including members from the Archaeology, Environmental Changes and Geo-Chemistry large research unit of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, has investigated traces of the asteroid impact that caused the extinction of the dinosaurs 66 million years ago.
The team examined samples from the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary layer, which marks the extinction of 70% of all specie
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MIT: When the Lights Turned on in the Universe
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Aug. 17 (TNSres) -- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued the following news:
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By studying ancient, supermassive black holes called quasars, Dominika Durovcikova is illuminating an early moment when galaxies could first be observed.
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By Austin Chen, MIT News correspondent
Watching crowds of people hustle along Massachusetts Avenue from her window seat in MIT's student center, Dominika Durovcikova has just one wish.
"What I would really like t
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