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New evidence for an unexpected player in Earth’s multimillion-year climate cycles: the planet Mars

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Earth's existence is governed by natural cycles, from the daily rhythms of sleeping and eating, to longer patterns such as the quadrennial round of leap years. Adriana Dutkiewicz and her colleagues have found a previously undetected cycle to add to the list. The ebb and flow in deep sea currents is tied to a 2.4-million-year swell of global warming and cooling driven by a gravitational tug of war.

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New evidence for an unexpected player in Earth’s multimillion-year climate cycles: the planet Mars

Dietmar MullerOur existence is governed by natural cycles, from the daily rhythms of sleeping and eating, to longer patterns such as the turn of the seasons and the quadrennial round of leap years. After looking at seabed sediment stretching back 65 million years, we have found a previously undetected cycle to add to the list: an ebb and flow in deep sea currents, tied to a 2.4-million-year swell of global warming and cooling driven by a gravit…

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