Thirty-seven years ago, on April 26 1986, the reactor of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant suffered a catastrophic meltdown. In new research published in American Mineralogist, my colleagues and I show tiny zircons formed at Chernobyl change our understanding of how these crystals behave – and what they tell us about Earth’s past. Nuclear power plant reactor meltdowns have happened …
A prospective Russian hypersonic missile has been successfully test-fired from a nuclear submarine for the first time, the military said on Monday. The Russian Defence Ministry said the Zircon missile was launched from the Severodvinsk submarine and hit a designated mock target in the Barents Sea. Russian President Vladimir Putin has said Zircon would be capable of flying at nine …
Studying the millipede revealed that “a rapid radiative evolution” helped these organisms to come out of aquatic ecosystems and start living in “complex forest grade communities” in just 40 million years. The discovery of a 425 million years old millipede fossil made it the oldest known specimen of bugs on the planet. Researchers found that the millipede fossil was 75 …
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