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Raikoke Stratovolcano Erupts!

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Massive eruption at Raikoke volcano, ash to 13.1 km (43 000 ft), a. s. l., Sea of Okhotsk ( Teo BLAŠKOVIĆ, The Watchers News ; June 22, 2019) https://watchers.news/2019/06/22/raikoke-volcano-eruption-june-2019/ Raikoke Volcano as seen from Golovnin Strait ( Image Credit :   Bigwumpus , 23 September 2018, Wikimedia Commons;  https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 ) Websites: Raikoke Erupts ( NASA Earth Observatory ) https://www.earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/145226/raikoke-erupts Raikoke spits ash ( European Space Agency ) https://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2019/06/Raikoke_spits_ash Global Volcanism Program - Map Holdings ( Smithsonian Institution - National Museum of Natural History ) https://volcano.si.edu/volcano.cfm?vn=290250&vtab=Maps

Newly discovered Apollo Vent Field in Pacific by ISU researchers offers glimpse of alien worlds

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Newly discovered Apollo Vent Field in Pacific by ISU researchers offers glimpse of alien worlds : The SUBSEA (Systematic Underwater Biogeochemical Science and Exploration Analog) Research Program team aboard Exploration Vessel Nautilus is thrilled to have discovered a new hydrothermal field at the northern Gorda Ridge in the Pacific Ocean. (ISU News, Idaho State University ; June 11, 2019) Newly discovered Apollo Vent Field | Nautilus Live   ( EVNautilus ; June 8, 2019)

Discovery of a “More Efficient” Chemical Separation Method for Strategic Actinides - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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Separation Anxiety No More: A Faster Technique to Purify Elements (News Release, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ; June 4, 2019) https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2019/06/04/separation-anxiety-no-more-a-faster-technique-to-purify-elements/ Featured Research Article Ultra-selective ligand-driven separation of strategic actinides (DEBLONDE et al. , 2019) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-10240-x Actinide Binary-Phase Diagram   By James L. Smith, LANL. - Extracted from http://www.lanl.gov/orgs/nmt/nmtdo/AQarchive/00fall/00fall.pdf , Public Domain, Link