5 Latest in the News on Earth:

New theory on the water origin on the Earth:

https://www.jpost.com/business-and-innovation/all-news/article-739044

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Aerobic microbial life persists in oxic marine sediment as old as 101.5 million years

Nature Communications, 2020

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-17330-1.pdf

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Scientists propose a new, sunken continent beneath the North Atlantic Ocean, Icelandia

https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/books/book/2323/chapter/130412282/Icelandia https://www.livescience.com/iceland-tip-of-lost-sunken-continent.html Jan 27, 2022

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Scientists Detect a New, Hidden Layer to Planet Earth

New evidence suggests the planet’s inner core has its own inner core.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/watch/scientists-detect-a-new-hidden-layer-to-planet-earth/vp-BB1eflQ4

March, 5, 2021

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Space outside our Universe (what Voyager see now):

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200908-the-weird-space-that-lies-outside-our-solar-system

NASA Voyager Mission Status:  https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/status/

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Earth Appears to Be Travelling Through The Debris of Ancient Supernovae:

Science Alert, 24 August, 2020 (thanks to Patty Ahmetaj for this reference)

https://www.sciencealert.com/earth-might-be-moving-through-the-debris-of-ancient-supernovae

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Earth’s core may have hardened just in time to save its magnetic field:

ScienceNews, January 28, 2019

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/earth-core-solidified-just-time-save-magnetic-field

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Geodynamo recharged:

Nature Geosciencevolume 12pages 83–84 (2019)

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-019-0301-2

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