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The dinosaur-murdering asteroid maybe also triggered an underwater volcano meltdown
Why pick just one flavor of apocalypse? By Rachel Becker.
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The Earth’s magnetic poles are overdue for a switch
The satellites that control our world could be rendered useless. By Chelsea Gohd.
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Pangea Supercontinent With Modern Countries Labeled
This is a map of the Pangea supercontinent created by digital artist Massimo Pietrobon with all the modern countries labeled.
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Huge Bubble of Hot Rock May Be Rising Under New England
At first glance, New England doesn’t seem like a hotbed of geologic activity. The region doesn’t have any rumbling volcanoes. Earthquakes are almost unheard of. And its mountains are mere hills compared to ranges like the Rockies or the Sierra Nevada in the western U.S. But don’t underestimate what’s going on beneath the surface: It turns out this idyllic pocket of the northeastern U.S. may sit atop a rising mass of warm rock—a smaller, slower version of the magma pockets under well-known volcanic zones.
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Gravity reveals true size of giant quakes
Researchers have developed a new approach to estimate the true size of very large earthquakes. At present, scientists use seismic waves from a rupture to work out the scale of the event. But a new analysis of the Tohoku earthquake in Japan in 2011 shows that changes in gravity can give more rapid information.
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When will the Earth try to kill us again?
Most mass extinctions began with vast convulsions of Earth’s interior—can we detect that?
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Star’s magnetic field could turn habitable-zone planets into magma soup
The inner planets of the TRAPPIST-1 system might get melted by induction heating. By John Timmer.
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Climate change is much, much worse than we thought, study finds
Global warming might be far worse than we thought, according to a new study. The research challenges the ways that researchers have worked out sea temperatures until now, meaning that they may be increasing quicker than previously suggested. The methodology widely used to understand sea temperatures in the scientific community may be based on a mistake, the new study suggests, and so our understanding of climate change might be fundamentally flawed.
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Extreme methane rainstorms appear to have a key role in shaping Titan’s icy surface
Titan, the largest of Saturn's more than 60 moons, has surprisingly intense rainstorms, according to research by a team of UCLA planetary scientists and geologists. Although the storms are relatively rare—they occur less than once per Titan year, which is 29 and a half Earth years—they occur much more frequently than the scientists expected.
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Thunderstorm Turns Into a Nuclear Reactor and Blasts Radiation Everywhere
Satellites have observed gamma-ray flashes before, but this latest flash was unusual in several aspects, and it came with a prize: They observed a burst of subatomic particles (in this case, neutrons) in their detector. By Ryan F. Mandelbaum. (Sept. 19, 2017)
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Global fingerprints of sea-level rise revealed by satellites
Geological processes send more meltwater from glaciers and ice sheets to Earth's mid-latitudes. By Rachael Lallensack.
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Would a supervolcano eruption wipe us out?
Throughout our planet’s history, massive volcanic eruptions have devastated life. Could one bring an end to human civilisation? By David Cox.
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'Big bang' and 'pillar of fire' as latest of two new craters forms this week in the Arctic
Scientists have located two fresh craters formed on Yamal peninsula this year, with the latest exploding on 28 June with the eruption picked up by new seismic sensors specifically designed to monitor such events, The Siberian Times can disclose.
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‘8th World Wonder’ May Lie Below Volcanic Lakeshore
Using a 19th century cartographer’s field diary, researchers think they’ve found the location of a revered landmark thought to be destroyed. By Sarah Gibbens.
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The Workings of an Ancient Nuclear Reactor
Two billion years ago parts of an African uranium deposit spontaneously underwent nuclear fission. The details of this remarkable phenomenon are just now becoming clear. By Alex P. Meshik on (Jan. 26, 2009)
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Curiosity rover finds its crater was habitable for 700 million years
And there are indications that groundwater persisted for far longer. By John Timmer.
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A giant lava lamp inside the Earth might be flipping the planet’s magnetic field
Signals from violent earthquakes are helping reveal the landscape of the planet’s insides. By Paula Koelemeijer.
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Why these researchers think dinosaurs were minutes away from surviving extinction
The team is making its case after drilling into the asteroid crater that coincides with the animals' disappearance.
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Dinosaur asteroid hit ‘worst possible place’
How different Earth's history might have been if the space rock had struck a different location.
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These are the strangest oceans in our galaxy
It’s a weird, wet universe out there. By K.N. Smith.
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