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Mars Rover Curiosity Nears a Gap in the Red Planet's Rock Record
NASA's Curiosity rover is closing in on a potential gap in Mars' rock record, a spot where layers of stone may
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Curiosity Rover Finds Honeycomb Patterns on Mars
NASA's Curiosity rover has driven into a landscape on Mars that looks like a giant honeycomb. The ground is co
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Pristine Meteorite Holds New Clues About Ancient Asteroids
A meteorite that fell to Earth nearly intact is rewriting what scientists know about the earliest days of the
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Mars Rover Finds Pure Sulfur Crystals in Unexpected Place
NASA's Curiosity rover has made a discovery on Mars that has scientists scratching their heads: pure sulfur cr
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Active fault line threatens world's biggest hydropower project in China
The world's largest hydropower project, a massive dam complex under construction in Tibet, sits directly atop
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Deep sea drilling reveals why Japan's 2011 tsunami was so massive
A thin, slippery layer of ancient clay hidden beneath the Pacific Ocean allowed Japan's 2011 earthquake to rup
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World’s oldest meteorite strike found in Western Australia’s Pilbara
The oldest known meteorite strike on Earth happened 3.5 billion years ago in a place that today is the red, ro
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Giant's Causeway Formed by 'Globally Significant' Volcanic Event
The famous hexagonal basalt columns of the Giant's Causeway were not formed by a single eruption, but by a vol
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Deep Utah quake confirmed 47 years later, defies known geology
A small earthquake that rattled northern Utah in 1979 was dismissed for decades as a mistake in the data. Now
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Curiosity Drills Into Mars Rock After Months of Searching
After months of searching across the Martian terrain, NASA's Curiosity rover finally drilled into a rock and c
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Ancient Canadian rocks are quietly producing clean hydrogen gas
Deep beneath northern Ontario, billion-year-old rocks are quietly generating hydrogen gas. Scientists have mea
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Goldfields Prospector Found 800,000-Year-Old Cosmic Glass
A prospector in Western Australia's Goldfields found a rare australite, a small piece of glassy cosmic debris
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River Deltas Sink Faster Than Seas Rise, Imperiling Millions
The land beneath hundreds of millions of people is sinking faster than the sea is rising. A sweeping new globa
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Scientists Solve 200-Year-Old Dolomite Mystery
For over two centuries, a simple mineral found in iconic landscapes from Italy's Dolomite mountains to Niagara
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A 550-Million-Year-Old Soft Sponge Solves a Fossil Mystery
A 550-million-year-old fossil, found along a riverbank in China, has finally explained why the earliest sponge
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Saudi Arabia Tests New CO2 Storage Method Using Recirculated Water
Turning the Desert's Bones into a Climate Vault In the sun-scorched expanses of western Saudi Arabia, scientis
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Scientists Find New Form of Water That Exists Only Under Extreme Pressure
Tokyo Lab Squeezes Water Into a Form Found Only Deep Inside Earth Forget the ice in your freezer. Scientists i
