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No urban legend: Our rooftops are collecting stardust
Guitarist helps show a longstanding belief among amateur astronomers is correct.
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7 of the Deepest Holes Humanity Ever Dug
No one's managed to come out the other side, at least not yet.
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Southern Hemisphere recovered faster from dino strike - BBC News
Life in the southern hemisphere appears to have recovered more quickly than expected from the asteroid strike that wiped out the dinosaurs.
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Weird Places: The Glowing Blue Lava at Kawah Ijen
Maybe you've seen pictures of glowing blue lava flows and dismissed them as Photoshop trickery. Healthy skepticism is good, but there really is a volcano in Indonesia where a unique fluke of chemistry creates an eerie blue glow.
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Journey to the Centre of the Earth
How far would you have to travel to reach the Earth's core? And what would you see along the way? Discover what lies beneath...
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Sinkhole Leaks More Than 200 Million Gallons of Contaminated Water into Florida Aquifer
A massive sinkhole has caused more than 200 million gallons of contaminated wastewater to leak from a storage pond.
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Sakurajima's big burst: Are we getting better at forecasting eruptions?
Scientists have developed a new model for forecasting volcanic behavior – one that could lead to better natural disaster preparation worldwide.
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Fly Geyser
A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.
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Young Cryovolcano on Ceres
Analysis of images from NASA's Dawn mission reveals that dwarf planet Ceres hosts an unexpectedly young cryovolcano that formed with the past billion years.
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Silicon-Based Life: Could Living Rocks Exist?
It's possible life could form based on elements other than carbon, but they would look much different than the life we are used to.
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First Map Of Thawed Areas Under Greenland Ice Sheet
NASA researchers have helped produce the first map showing what parts of the bottom of the massive Greenland Ice Sheet are thawed.
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Amethyst Geode Wedding Cake by Intricate Icings
This wedding cake rocks
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Massive ‘Lava Lamp’ Blobs Deep Inside Earth Have Scientists Puzzled
Geoscientists have much to learn about mysterious blobs of hot rock deep in the Earth’s mantle, such as exactly what they’re made of and how they formed. By Greg Uyeno.
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City Workers Accidentally Dismantle a Secret Earthquake Science Landmark
A street corner in California had been a seismologist pilgrimage site for decades.
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How North America got its shape - Peter J. Haproff
North America didn’t always have its familiar shape, nor its famed mountains, canyons, and plains: all of that was once contained in an unrecognizable mass, buried deep in Rodinia, a huge supercontinent that lay on the face of the Earth. Peter J. Haproff explains how it took millions of years and some incredible plate tectonics to forge the continent we know today.
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Helium Discovery a 'Game-Changer'
Scientists say they have found a large helium gas field in Tanzania, amid concerns global supplies are running out.
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Beijing has fallen: China's capital sinking by 11cm a year, satellite study warns
Pumping of groundwater blamed for causing soil to collapse as development roars ahead above, with railways among infrastructure at risk, say scientists
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Unknown alien rock found in Swedish quarry
A morsel of never-before-seen alien rock has been dug up in a limestone quarry in Sweden, where it had lain deeply buried for about 470 million years, scientists said Tuesday.
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See the Ugly Beauty That Lives in a Toxic Cave
This Colorado cave holds beautiful crystals, blood-red worms, and mysteries for the scientists who have now explored it.
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Earth's Thin Early Atmosphere Revealed in Bubbles
Air bubbles trapped in ancient rocks suggest the Earth's atmosphere was far thinner than previously thought 2.7 billion years ago.
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