much as the famous iridium layer has done? Scientists won't be able to say without further study, but the idea holds promise. (In the 1998 book The Nature of Diamonds, the geologist George Harlow ...

The calculations predicted that one layer of iridium would not be sufficient to drive the oxygen evolution reaction but that ...

The idea was first proposed in 1980 by physicist Luis Alvarez; his son, the geologist Walter Alverez; and their colleagues after they noticed the high levels of iridium in this layer. The team ...

Scientists have discovered levels of iridium 30 times greater than average in the Cretaceous/Tertiary (KT) boundary, the layer of sedimentary rock laid down at the time of the dinosaur extinction.

Learn about our Editorial Policies. Scientists can readily detect this Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg or K-P) mass extinction in the geological record thanks to a thin layer of pale stone enriched in ...

The acronyms are becoming more intense, with PTE, which stands for porous transport electrodes, the latest one, amid the ...

Smoltek Nanotech Holding AB (Göteborg, Sweden) announced that its subsidiary Smoltek Hydrogen has entered a strategic ...