• India Blount posted an update in the group Group logo of DiscoveryDiscovery 5 months, 4 weeks ago

    A Recent Study Suggests Earth’s Core May Be Enveloped By An Ancient Ocean Floor Hosting Mountains, 5x Taller Than Mt. Everest. This Find Comes From The Most Detailed Geological Map Of The Southern Hemisphere, Showing A Vast Ultra-Low Velocity Zone, Likely Containing Subducted Oceanic Materials, Influencing Heat Flow & Geological Activities.

  • India Blount posted an update in the group Group logo of OtherOther 9 months, 3 weeks ago

    Scientists Made A Breakthrough In Their 60-Year Quest To Explore Earth’s Depths. They Recovered Pieces Of Rocky Mantle From Atlantis Massif In The North Atlantic. Although They Didn’t Reach The Mantle, They Obtained The Deepest Mantle Rock Ever Collected, Providing Valuable Data For, E.g., Understanding Earth’s Composition, & Life’s Origin

  • India Blount posted an update in the group Group logo of DiscoveryDiscovery 11 months, 3 weeks ago

    The Antarctic Desert, Categorized As A Cold Desert, Is The World’s Largest Desert Spanning ~ 5.48 Million Square Miles. The Arctic Desert, Also A Cold Desert, Is The Second Largest At ~ 5.37 Million Square Miles. The Sahara Desert, Classified As A Hot And Dry Desert, Is The Largest Non-Polar Desert, Covering ~3.55 Million Square Miles.

  • India Blount posted an update in the group Group logo of DiscoveryDiscovery 1 year, 10 months ago

    Researchers, For The First Time, Detected DNA & RNA Nucleobases In Meteorites That Fell To Earth In The Last 100 Yrs, Using A DNA Extraction Method That’s 100X More Sensitive Than Methods Used Since The 1960s. And The Nucleobases– Adenine, Thymine, Cytosine, Guanine, And Uracil, May Indicate That The Ingredient For Life Came From Space.

  • India Blount posted an update in the group Group logo of DiscoveryDiscovery 2 years, 2 months ago

    The Earth’s Core Is Cooling At A Faster Rate Than Previously Thought. A New Study Estimates A 1.5X Higher Bulk Thermal Conductivity At Core-Mantle Boundary Than The Conventional Value, Which Could Imply A Faster Earth Cooling Process That Could Make The Earth Unhabitable And Tectonically Inactive Millions Or Billions Of Years From Now.

  • India Blount posted an update in the group Group logo of DiscoveryDiscovery 2 years, 4 months ago

    Researchers Have Found The First Direct Evidence Of A Never Before Seen Mineral That Forms In The Mantle. The Mineral, Davemaoite, Is Said To Be A High Pressure-Temperature Form Of Wollastonite, A Commonly Found Mineral. The Davemaoite Was Discovered, Using Synchrotron X-ray Diffraction, In A Botswana Diamond, Which Formed In The mantle.

  • India Blount posted an update in the group Group logo of ProductProduct 2 years, 12 months ago

    Scientists Briefly Created A Rare Diamond To Test Its Hardness. The Stiffness Of The Artificial Hexagonal Diamond, Lonsdaleite, Suggest It Is 58% Stronger Than Diamond, Setting A New Record For The Hardest Known Material. Advances Are Needed To Stabilize The Production Of Lonsdaleite, Also Found In Meteorite Crater Rocks, For Its Uses.

  • India Blount posted an update in the group Group logo of DiscoveryDiscovery 3 years ago

    Researchers May Have Discovered A Meteorite Derived From A Planet At Its Early Stage Of Formation. The Meteorite, Named Erg Chech 002 (EC 002), Said To Be Older Than Earth, Was Found In The Sahara Desert. EC 002 Is The “Oldest Known Extra-Terrestrial Lava” On Earth And May Offer Glimpse Of Planetary Formation In The Early Solar System.

  • India Blount posted an update in the group Group logo of ProductProduct 3 years, 4 months ago

    Natural Diamond Form From Carbon, ~150 km Deep In The Earth, Under High Temperature And Pressure. And They Take Billion Of Years To Form. And Yes, Synthetic Diamond Have Been Created In Labs Since The 1940s. But Researchers In Australia, In What May Be A First, Were Able To Create Diamond In Minutes Under Room Temperature. Cool!

  • India Blount posted an update in the group Group logo of DiscoveryDiscovery 4 years ago

    Scientists Believe That The Ingredients For Life Was Brought To Earth Via Meteorites. Could This Discovery Of The First Protein From Outerspace, Which Scientists Claim To Have Found In Two Meteorite Samples, The Allende Meteorite (Found In Mexico In 1969) And The Acfer 086 Meteorites (Found In Algeria In 1990), Support The Claim?…

  • India Blount posted an update in the group Group logo of DiscoveryDiscovery 4 years, 2 months ago

    The Oldest Material On Earth Has Been Discovered. The Material, Dust Grains, Found In A Meteorite That Fell In Australia In 1969, Is Said To Be As Much As 7.5 Billion Years Old. The Dust Grains Are Flung Into Space, When Stars That Predated Our Solar System Die, To Be Incorporated Into New Stars, Planets, Moons, And Meteorites.

  • India Blount posted an update in the group Group logo of DatingDating 4 years, 3 months ago

    Popular Harvard Geneticist, George Church is Conceptualizing A Dating App, Which He Hopes To Use In Creating A Healthier Society. Hopefully, By People Placing Emphasis On Their DNA Compatibility, For Partner Selection, To Help Eliminate Hereditary Diseases. But Again, There’s That Thing Called “Love,” And Sequencing Of Everyone’s Genome.

  • India Blount posted an update in the group Group logo of DiscoveryDiscovery 4 years, 6 months ago

    Scientists Have Discovered A Meteorite Containing A New Mineral That Has Never Being Found In Nature. The Meteorite Was Found By The Road Side In Australia. The New Mineral, Called Edscottite, Is Said To Come From A Rock Formed In The Core Of Another Planet, Which Was Destroyed In An Ancient Collision.

  • India Blount posted an update in the group Group logo of DatingDating 4 years, 11 months ago

    So Many Dating Apps Abound Every Where. And Some of These Dating Apps Match Folks Based On Some Criteria, Like What They Hate. A New App, ” Called Digs,” Is Being Launched In Maimi That Will Match People Who Love Dogs. This Is Not Fair Because I Can Sense The Cats Being Left Out.

  • India Blount posted an update in the group Group logo of DiscoveryDiscovery 5 years, 4 months ago

    The Amount Of Water Subducted Along Plate Boundary, According To Scientists, Using Seismic Waves From Earthquakes In the Mariana Trench, Has Been Determined To Be 3 Times The Amount Initially Thought. But The Baffling Part Of This Find Is That All The Subducted Water Cannot Be Accounted For As What Goes Down Should Come Up?

  • India Blount posted an update in the group Group logo of DiscoveryDiscovery 5 years, 8 months ago

    Scientists Have Discovered Quadrillion Tons Of Diamond, 90-150 Miles, Below The Earth Surface In An Inverted Mountain Structure Called Craton. So, Good Luck Getting It! The Discovery Was Made When The Velocity Of Sound Through The Craton, During A Seismic Activity, Was Identical To The Experimented Velocity Of Sound Through Diamond Rock.

  • India Blount posted an update in the group Group logo of DiscoveryDiscovery 6 years ago

    A New Form Of Water Ice, Ice-VII, Was Discovered In Diamonds That Formed 400 Miles Beneath The Earth Surface, In The Mantle. The Scientists Were Interested In Looking For Evidence Of Water Trapped Deep In The Earth When They Made The Discovery Using X-Ray. Ice-VII, With Cubic Shaped Atoms, Has Now Been Recognized As A New Mineral

  • India Blount posted an update in the group Group logo of HealthHealth 6 years, 1 month ago

    The Controversy Surrounding Whether Anti-depressant Drugs Work Has Been Put To Rest. Recent Study Has Indicated That Common Anti-depressant Drugs Are Effective At Lifting Moods And Helping People With Depression. Hopefully, This Resolves Any Doubt Regarding Depressant Medications.