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Moon Rocks Brought From the Far Side Confirm Ancient Volcanic Activity
Researchers analysing lunar samples from China’s Chang’e-6 mission have uncovered evidence of ancient volcanic activity on the Moon’s far side. The mission, which returned nearly two kilograms of lunar soil in June, landed in the South Pole-Aitken Basin, one of the Moon’s oldest craters. Studies published in Science and Nature revealed volc...
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Australian Rocks May Hold Clues For Mission Searching For Life On Mars
The rocks in question are stromatolites situated in the Pilbara Craton of the region.
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Billion-Year-Old Chinese Seaweed May Be The Oldest Green Plant Fossil
Scientists have spotted in rocks from northern China what may be the oldest fossils of a green plant ever found, tiny seaweed that carpeted areas of the seafloor roughly a billion years ago and were part of a primordial revolution among life on Earth.
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Garbage Clogs Bengaluru's Largest And Oldest Green Lung
The Lalbagh Botanical Garden in Bengaluru is the city's oldest and largest green lung - a place that replenishes the crowded IT hub with fresh air. Close to the garden's main gate is an ancient rock topped by a tower built by the King Kempe Gowda centuries ago, to mark what he expected to be the limit of Bengaluru.
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3.7 Billion Year Fossil Or Just Rocks? Scientists At Odds Over Structure
It was an extraordinary claim: Scientists studying a rock formation in Greenland said they had discovered the Earth's oldest fossils, a series of small, cone-shaped structures left by microbial mats some 3.7 billion years ago.
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Archaeologists Just Found The Oldest Drawing - A 70,000-Year-Old Hashtag
Archaeologists who excavated a seaside cave in South Africa have discovered what they say is the world's oldest drawing. It is an abstract pattern, a crosshatch of red lines, like a hashtag, on a rock flake.
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As Amit Shah Meets Uddhav Thackeray, Sena Lines Up Some Uneasy Questions
BJP boss Amit Shah started work on his mission to reach out to NDA allies, starting from Uddhav Thackeray's Shiv Sena in Mumbai this evening to mollify its oldest and most difficult ally that calls his party its "biggest political enemy". The Shiv Sena, which sees the BJP's efforts to consolidate its foothold in Mumbai and beyond as a threat, has p...
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Donald Trump Hails 'Very Strong' Ties With Thailand
Donald Trump welcomed Thai junta leader chief Prayut Chan-O-Cha to the White House on Monday, trying to turn the page after coups rocked one of America's oldest alliances.
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Oldest Signs Of Life On Earth May Be In 3.95 Billion-Year-Old Rocks
The Saglek Block rocks of northern Labrador have been submerged beneath water, sucked into Earth's interior, twisted, squeezed and torn by tectonic forces, wrenched upward, weathered by wind and waves, and otherwise subjected to every imaginable form of battering a piece of stone can endure in the course of 3.95 billion years.
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Madhya Pradesh Houses World's Oldest Rock Art: Experts
The petroglyph rock art at Daraki-Chattan (hillock) near Bhanpura in the district is the "world's oldest rock art" and is almost 2 to 5 lakh years' old, according to experts.
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Around 50,000-Year-Old Axe Found In Australia, Scientists Say World's Oldest
A rock flake found in Australia is believed to be from the world's oldest known axe and likely dates from just after humans arrived in the country around 50,000 years ago, scientists said today.
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Sena-BJP Ties Hit Rock Bottom as Devendra Fadnavis Completes 1 Year
Even as the Fadnavis government completes a year in office this week, the partnership between BJP and its oldest ideological ally Shiv Sena is at an all-time low, raising a question mark over the political stability of the regime.
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Curiosity Finds Rocks Similar to Earth's Crust on Mars
Rocks rich in silica similar to those in the oldest part of Earth's continental crust are scattered throughout the area where NASA's Curiosity probe is exploring on Mars, according to a study published on Monday in Nature Geoscience.
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Wimbledon: Roger Federer Looks to Follow Serena Williams and Rock the Ages
A day after Serena Williams became the oldest woman to win a Grand Slam title when she swept to a sixth Wimbledon, fellow 33-year-old Roger Federer will bid to become the oldest men's champion at the All England Club in the Open Era.
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Ancient Rock Shows Signs of Water on Mars: Study
A new analysis of the oldest meteorite from Mars suggests that early Martian landscape had water, but instead of vast oceans the red planet probably held smaller seas.
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Moon Rocks Brought From the Far Side Confirm Ancient Volcanic Activity
Researchers analysing lunar samples from China’s Chang’e-6 mission have uncovered evidence of ancient volcanic activity on the Moon’s far side. The mission, which returned nearly two kilograms of lunar soil in June, landed in the South Pole-Aitken Basin, one of the Moon’s oldest craters. Studies published in Science and Nature revealed volc...
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Australian Rocks May Hold Clues For Mission Searching For Life On Mars
The rocks in question are stromatolites situated in the Pilbara Craton of the region.
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Billion-Year-Old Chinese Seaweed May Be The Oldest Green Plant Fossil
Scientists have spotted in rocks from northern China what may be the oldest fossils of a green plant ever found, tiny seaweed that carpeted areas of the seafloor roughly a billion years ago and were part of a primordial revolution among life on Earth.
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Garbage Clogs Bengaluru's Largest And Oldest Green Lung
The Lalbagh Botanical Garden in Bengaluru is the city's oldest and largest green lung - a place that replenishes the crowded IT hub with fresh air. Close to the garden's main gate is an ancient rock topped by a tower built by the King Kempe Gowda centuries ago, to mark what he expected to be the limit of Bengaluru.
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3.7 Billion Year Fossil Or Just Rocks? Scientists At Odds Over Structure
It was an extraordinary claim: Scientists studying a rock formation in Greenland said they had discovered the Earth's oldest fossils, a series of small, cone-shaped structures left by microbial mats some 3.7 billion years ago.
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Archaeologists Just Found The Oldest Drawing - A 70,000-Year-Old Hashtag
Archaeologists who excavated a seaside cave in South Africa have discovered what they say is the world's oldest drawing. It is an abstract pattern, a crosshatch of red lines, like a hashtag, on a rock flake.
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As Amit Shah Meets Uddhav Thackeray, Sena Lines Up Some Uneasy Questions
BJP boss Amit Shah started work on his mission to reach out to NDA allies, starting from Uddhav Thackeray's Shiv Sena in Mumbai this evening to mollify its oldest and most difficult ally that calls his party its "biggest political enemy". The Shiv Sena, which sees the BJP's efforts to consolidate its foothold in Mumbai and beyond as a threat, has p...
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Donald Trump Hails 'Very Strong' Ties With Thailand
Donald Trump welcomed Thai junta leader chief Prayut Chan-O-Cha to the White House on Monday, trying to turn the page after coups rocked one of America's oldest alliances.
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Oldest Signs Of Life On Earth May Be In 3.95 Billion-Year-Old Rocks
The Saglek Block rocks of northern Labrador have been submerged beneath water, sucked into Earth's interior, twisted, squeezed and torn by tectonic forces, wrenched upward, weathered by wind and waves, and otherwise subjected to every imaginable form of battering a piece of stone can endure in the course of 3.95 billion years.
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Madhya Pradesh Houses World's Oldest Rock Art: Experts
The petroglyph rock art at Daraki-Chattan (hillock) near Bhanpura in the district is the "world's oldest rock art" and is almost 2 to 5 lakh years' old, according to experts.
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Around 50,000-Year-Old Axe Found In Australia, Scientists Say World's Oldest
A rock flake found in Australia is believed to be from the world's oldest known axe and likely dates from just after humans arrived in the country around 50,000 years ago, scientists said today.
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Sena-BJP Ties Hit Rock Bottom as Devendra Fadnavis Completes 1 Year
Even as the Fadnavis government completes a year in office this week, the partnership between BJP and its oldest ideological ally Shiv Sena is at an all-time low, raising a question mark over the political stability of the regime.
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Curiosity Finds Rocks Similar to Earth's Crust on Mars
Rocks rich in silica similar to those in the oldest part of Earth's continental crust are scattered throughout the area where NASA's Curiosity probe is exploring on Mars, according to a study published on Monday in Nature Geoscience.
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Wimbledon: Roger Federer Looks to Follow Serena Williams and Rock the Ages
A day after Serena Williams became the oldest woman to win a Grand Slam title when she swept to a sixth Wimbledon, fellow 33-year-old Roger Federer will bid to become the oldest men's champion at the All England Club in the Open Era.
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Ancient Rock Shows Signs of Water on Mars: Study
A new analysis of the oldest meteorite from Mars suggests that early Martian landscape had water, but instead of vast oceans the red planet probably held smaller seas.
