How the Chicxulub impact made acid rain

Tuesday, March 11, 2014 - 07:10 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Using lasers to accelerate materials to asteroid-like impact velocities, scientists have shown how the Chicxulub asteroid impact, which happened roughly 65 million years ago, could have created a mass extinction in the oceans.

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