For decades, scientists linked Oklahoma’s Ames impact structure to a meteor event that swept across Earth nearly 470 million years ago. According to research published in Meteoritics & Planetary Science titled ‘The Ames impact structure, Oklahoma: New radioisotopic constraints and implications for North American impact chronology’, new evidence points to a very different timeline. By…

Greater Farallones Association Kelp restoration specialist Julieta Gomez holding up kelp she is tending at the lab to grow spores for outplanting for kelp restoration. Image Credit: Jennifer Stock/NOAA California scientists are growing young bull kelp in laboratory tanks before placing it back into coastal waters where underwater forests have largely disappeared. At Bodega Marine…