VIPER back from the dead? NASA asks US companies to partner on ice-hunting moon rover
NASA is asking U.S. companies for proposals to move forward with the ice-hunting VIPER moon rover, a $450 million project the ...
Inspired by the Runways, Copper Is Having an Interiors Renaissance That's More Sophisticated This Time Around
The shimmering copper tones on the winter season’s runway are also making waves in the interiors world — here's what we'd buy ...
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Why the 'roof of the world' keeps rising over time
The Tibetan Plateau, often called the "roof of the world," continues to baffle geologists and others curious about Earth’s ...
The Earth could get a new ocean and continent a lot sooner than we thought
This was when the Earth was one continent called Pangaea that slowly broke apart and spread out to form the continents we ...
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Groundwater in Arctic is delivering more carbon into the ocean than was previously known
A relatively small amount of groundwater trickling through Alaska's tundra is releasing huge quantities of carbon into the ocean, where it can contribute to climate change.
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Ancient Water, Alien Salts, and Life’s Building Blocks Were All Found in Bennu Asteroid
This photo of asteroid Bennu is composed of 12 Polycam images collected on Dec. 2, 2024, by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. NASA A ...
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Earth's crust is peeling away. It's happening beneath the mountains of California
The phenomenon has been happening for millions of years quietly beneath our feet and could shed new light on how the continents form.
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UMich study uncovers the mechanism behind gold deposit formation
Amid Earth’s mobile tectonic plates, subduction zones arise as regions of intense geological activity and concentrate minerals into ore deposits like gold.
Great Lakes Now9d
The History of the Button Industry’s Impact on Freshwater Mussels
North America had the highest diversity and density of freshwater mussels on Earth. Discover how the button industry contributed to their decline, leaving these vital species critically endangered ...
Newsweek14d
Mysterious 'Supercontinents' Inside Earth Challenge Mantle Theory
Two enormous continent-sized "islands" found buried deep inside the Earth's mantle are challenging our ideas about our planet's inner workings. These unexpected regions of the Earth's innards ...
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Scientists Discover ‘Sunken Worlds’ Hidden Deep Within Earth’s Mantle
Composition of Earth’s mantle revisited due to research at Argonne’s Advanced Photon Source. Credit: Argonne National Laboratory / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Scientists have identified mysterious formations deep ...