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A newly forming ocean may split Africa apart, scientists say
A plume of molten rock deep beneath eastern Africa is pulsing upward in rhythmic surges, slowly splitting the continent and ...
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Pulsing Mantle Beneath Africa May Create a New Ocean
Deep beneath East Africa, scientists have discovered powerful forces at work that could eventually split the continent in two ...
Scientists Just Found Earth’s Pulse – And It’s Tearing a Continent Apart
Researchers mapped a pulsing mantle plume under Afar that channels molten rock upward, stretching Africa’s crust until it ...
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'Pulsing, like a heartbeat': Rhythmic mantle plume rising beneath Ethiopia is creating a new ocean
Scientists have detected rhythmic pulses of molten rock rising beneath eastern Africa, threatening to pull the continent ...
Pulsing ultraluminous X-ray sources are unlikely origins of periodically active fast radio bursts
In the vast cosmos, fast radio bursts (FRBs) remain one of the most mysterious astrophysical phenomena ever discovered. These intense, millisecond-duration radio pulses can release in the radio band ...
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A giant pulse beneath Africa could split the continent — and form an ocean
Beneath the Afar region in Ethiopia, scientists have discovered pulsing waves of molten rock rising from deep within the ...
Astronomers find startling pulsing object in Milky Way: 'Unlike anything we have seen'
The mystery object, located just a short 15,000 light-years from Earth in our Milky Way galaxy, was spotted emitting unusual pulses.
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Astronomers spot signal belonging to mysterious new class of cosmic objects - CNN
Researchers traced long, bright radio pulses, combined with X-rays, to an intriguing cosmic object 15,000 light-years from Earth, according to a new study.
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'Pulsing, like a heartbeat': Rhythmic mantle plume rising beneath Ethiopia is creating a new ocean - Yahoo Sports
The pulsing plume of hot mantle beneath Ethiopia, driven by plate tectonics, is slowly pulling the region apart and forming a new ocean near the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea, ...