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Mystery Solved: How the Ancient Indus Civilization Survived Without Rivers
The rise and fall of the Indus civilization gets a new narrative. By Stephanie Pappas.
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What's Australia made of? Geologically, it depends on the state you're in
The world's oldest known material is from Western Australia. But for much of Australia's geological past, the eastern states simply didn't exist. They're relative newcomers to our ancient continent.
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If you liked the Cambrian Explosion, you’ll love the Ordovician Radiation
Life went nuts 450 million years ago, when oxygen levels rose in the seas.
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Earth Had Life From Its Infancy
Canadian rocks that are almost 4 billion years old contain clues that organisms were already around on the young planet.
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A Drill Ship Is Setting Off to Investigate a Sunken Lost Continent East of Australia
An expedition has been launched to help solve the mysteries of Zealandia, an underwater continent to the east of Australia.
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Plastiglomerate
Whichever (if any) start date is chosen, plastiglomerate—a substance that is neither industrially manufactured nor geologically created—seems a fraught but nonetheless incontrovertible marker of the anthropogenic impact on the world; it is evidence of human presence written directly into the rock. By Kirsty Robertson. (Dec. 2016)
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How to Build the Perfect Sandcastle--According to Science
A sedimentologist weighs in on beach selection, tools and the perfect sand-to-water ratio
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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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Inside the Naracoorte Caves, one of the world's richest fossil sites
Megafauna including giant kangaroos were preserved in sand in South Australia's Naracoorte Caves, one of the world's richest fossil sites.
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The Sunken World Hiding Under the Water's Surface
27 drowned places that used to be above ground.
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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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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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This Entire Beach Vanished 33 Years Ago - And Just Mysteriously Reappeared
Back in 1984, violent storms in northwest Ireland did the unthinkable - together, they stripped an entire beach away from the coast, leaving locals with nothing but bare, grey rock pools where fun goes to die. But sometimes nature gives us a break, because a freak tide has appeared off the coast of Achill Island to dump hundreds of tonnes of sand back on the rocks, building up the beach that disappeared more than three decades ago.
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Indigenous myths carry warning signals about natural disasters
hortly before 8am on 26 December 2004, the cicadas fell silent and the ground shook in dismay. The Moken, an isolated tribe on the Andaman Islands in the Indian Ocean, knew that the Laboon, the ‘wave that eats people’, had stirred from his ocean lair. The Moken also knew what was next: a towering wall of water washing over their island, cleansing it of all that was evil and impure. To heed the Laboon’s warning signs, elders told their children, run to high ground.
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Flecks of Extraterrestrial Dust, All Over the Roof
A jazz musician from Norway hunted bits of cosmic debris for eight years and found it everywhere. Turns out, tons of it land every day. By William J. Broad.
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Earth Has a New Continent Called 'Zealandia', Study Reveals
Kids are frequently taught that seven continents exist: Africa, Asia, Antarctica, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America.
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World's First Atomic Blast Tests Theories of Moon's Formation
Radioactive glass from the Trinity nuclear test site resembles ancient moon rocks
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Lava Waterfall at Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii
Over the last month the Kilauea flow has increased from a lava tube at the Kamokuna ocean entry on the southeast side of the Big Island. The lava now falls 70 feet (21 meters) into the cool seawater below, causing explosions and billowing smoke.
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Planet Earth makes its own water from scratch deep in the mantle
Computer simulation confirms that water can form within our planet rather than arriving from space, and the process may explain mysterious deep quakes. By Andy Coghlan.
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