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The two newly discovered minerals have been named elaliite and elkinstantonite. A team of researchers has discovered at least two new minerals never seen on Earth in a 15-ton meteorite found in Somalia, the ninth largest ever found. "Whenever a new mineral is found, it means that the actual geological conditions, the chemistry of the rock, were different from what had been found before," Chris Herd, a professor in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, says in a statement. and curator of the University of Alberta Meteorite Collection. "That's what makes this exciting: In this particular meteorite there are…

The thawing of the thousand-year-old permafrost due to climate change could pose a new threat to humans, according to researchers who Nearly two dozen viruses have revived, including one frozen under a lake for more than 48,500 years. European researchers examined thousand-year-old samples collected from the permafrost in Russia's Siberian region. The scientists revived and described 13 new pathogens, which they called "zombie viruses", and were found to remain infectious despite spending many millennia trapped under frozen ground. Scientists have long warned that thawing permafrost caused by global warming will worsen climate change by releasing previously trapped greenhouse gases such…

Owl-shaped slate plates from 5,000 years ago, found in prehistoric tombs in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula, could have been created by children and used as toys, according to research published in the journal Scientific Reports. The slate plates discovered in this investigation are representations of owls. In some of them, those with two large frontal eyes, owls modeled after two species present in the area can be clearly seen: the little owl ( Athene noctua ), and the long-eared owl ( asio otus). All They were found in tombs and graves on the Iberian Peninsula and are between…

The government of Canary Islands maintains close contact with scientific entities to report any news regarding the fireball sightinglike the one located this Sunday off the north coast of tenerifehas reported the Emergency and Security Coordination Center 112. Likewise, the coordinating center has detailed on its social networks that it has not registered incidents or new citizen alerts due to noises or observation of luminous objects in the sky. Although the coordinating center has not registered incidents or new citizen alerts due to noise or observation of luminous objects in the sky, the Government of the Canary Islands maintains close…