Besides searching for water, geologists will use Webb to study the formation and evolution of global dust storms and cloud systems over dormant volcanoes, and search for
traces of chemical changes in the atmosphere.
Not exact matches
Now, a 15 - year, 30 - nation research collective called Geotraces is embarking on an ambitious global survey
of ocean chemistry to quantify
trace elements and shed light on how
chemical concentrations fluctuate in response to
changing environmental conditions.
They
traced the effect to
changes in dopamine, a brain
chemical that contributes to the experience
of reward, and to possible
changes in GABA receptors, which can act as a brake system to keep dopamine in check.
2 By studying the record
of Earth's history contained in sedimentary rocks from the time just prior to the rise
of animals, between 1200 and 650 million years ago, reading these rocks for clues about
changing environmental conditions by
chemical analysis, and systematically scouring them for
traces of life — from fossils as well as
chemical signatures;
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