Two massive asteroid impacts 35.65 million years ago left significant craters but caused no long-term climate changes, ...

The space rocks, both estimated to be no larger than 5 miles (8 kilometers) wide, impacted Earth within 25,000 years of each ...

Some of the asteroids appeared to have hit in the form of "thousands of tiny droplets of glass, or silica." The silica likely ...

The production and transportation of glass bottles require more energy, making its carbon footprint higher than plastics, despite the fact that plastic bottles take longer to degrade. A study by ...

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UK scientists used hundreds of tiny fossils that lived in the sea at the time to understand climate shifts tens of millions ...

One is about 100 microns in size (Natalie Cheng / Bridget Wade) She noted that research into the Yucatan asteroid strike, also known as the Chicxulub impact crater, suggests a shift during less ...

They also uncovered evidence of the asteroid impacts in the form of thousands of tiny droplets of glass, or the compound ... also known as the Chicxulub impact crater, suggests a shift during ...

"Modeling studies of the larger Chicxulub impact, which killed off the dinosaurs ... impacts in the form of thousands of tiny droplets of glass, or silica. These form after silica-containing ...