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Stonehenge tale gets ‘weirder’ as Orkney is ruled out as altar stone origin
Weeks after revelation that megalith came from Scotland, researchers make surprise discovery
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HAARP experiments could cause artificial aurora over Alaska this weekend
Researchers from around the country are conducting four days of experiments at the Gakona facility that could put splotches of red and green light overhead at times.
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July was the hottest month ever recorded on Earth
People are being exposed to ever more frequent and intense extreme events, the Copernicus Climate Change Service has warned.
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The weirdness of youtube's algorithm
So, do thousands of fundamentalists watch plate tectonics videos and then want to listen to hymns? WTF?
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Scientists Discover Leak in the Bottom of the Ocean
It may be more likely than ever that the next mega-earthquake is going to happen in the PNW — and a hole in the bottom of the sea may provide clues.
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'Horrifying' Plastic Rocks Emerge in Remote Island Paradise
There are few places on Earth as isolated as Trindade island, a volcanic outcrop a three- to four-day boat trip off the coast of Brazil.
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Large underwater volcano likely erupting beneath Pacific Ocean's surface, scientists warn
A large submarine volcano is likely erupting below the surface of the Pacific Ocean, according to scientists with the U.S. Geological Survey, citing discoloration.
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Ultra Rare Diamond Suggests Earth’s Mantle Has an Ocean’s Worth of Water
A beautiful blue flaw in a gem-quality diamond from Botswana is actually a tiny fragment of Earth’s deep interior—and it suggests our planet’s mantle contains oceans’ worth of water. The flaw, technically called an inclusion, looks like a fish eye: a deep blue center surrounded by a white haze. But it’s really a pocket of the mineral ringwoodite from 660 kilometers down, at the boundary between the upper and lower mantle.
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A New Baby Island Has Just Been Born In The Pacific Ocean
Boom! And just like that, a new island was born.
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Volcano near Philippines capital erupts, spewing plume of steam and ash
Thousands of residents are being urged to evacuate, as the Philippines volcanology institute raises the alarm at the Taal volcano to the third level in a five-step warning system.
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New technique unlocks ancient history of Earth from grains of sand
Lead researcher Dr. Milo Barham, from the Timescales of Mineral Systems Group within Curtin's School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, said the team devised a metric, which determines the "age distribution fingerprint" of minerals known as zircon within sand, shedding new light on the evolution of the Earth's surface over the last few billion years.
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The missing continent it took 375 years to find
It took scientists 375 years to discover the eighth continent of the world, which has been hiding in plain sight all along. But mysteries still remain.
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Why the volcano erupting in the Caribbean has such a deadly reputation
La Soufrière on the island of St. Vincent, which last erupted in 1979, has a long and tragic history of powerful but mercurial blasts.
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This is What Happens When You Fly a Drone Into a Volcano
While drones allow photographers to get very close to erupting volcanoes, it's not without risk: the drones don't always emerge unscathed.
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Rock of ages: how chalk made England
The long read: Swathes of England’s landscape were shaped by the immense block of chalk that has lain beneath it for 100 million years. For a long time, even geologists paid it little heed – but now its secrets and symbolism are being revealed
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Mount Etna spews smoke and ash in spectacular new eruption
Etna's at it again - but authorities say it poses no danger to surrounding villages
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New drone technology advances volcanic monitoring
Specially-adapted drones, developed by an international team involving scientists from the University of Cambridge, are transforming how we forecast eruptions
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Ancient Earth
Earth looked very different long ago. Search for addresses upto 750 million years ago in Earth history
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There Are Sharks Living in a Volcano, for the Love of God
“Sharkcano” isn’t the latest trashy summer movie with bad special effects. It’s the very real phenomenon of sharks making a home in lava water, and now a Nat Geo special.
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Seismic waves reveal giant structures deep beneath Earth’s surface
Seismic waves travelling through Earth have revealed a giant structure between Earth's molten core and solid mantle under the Marquesas Islands in the South Pacific
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