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something extraordinary to the surface: a material from Earth’s birth 4.4 billion years ago
1+ mon, 4+ day ago (1112+ words) volcano near Mayotte has carried a chemical memory of Earth’s birth all the way to the seafloor. And it’s an ancient one. Lava from Fani… Lava from Fani Maoré contains signs of mantle material formed...the planet’s first 100 million…...
Ozone recovery is changing life in Antarctica in an unexpected way
6+ day, 1+ hour ago (612+ words) stories of the past half-century, a direct payoff from the Montreal Protocol. As the ozone layer recovers,...Antarctic surface. That has largely been seen as good news for life there. But a new field study suggests the...eastern lowland tundra,…...
Scientists are getting better at predicting where massive earthquakes will strike
4+ day, 7+ hour ago (863+ words) Periollat, who spend their careers watching how Earth’s crust bends and shifts as tectonic plates lock...underneath another. These are the zones responsible for Earth’s biggest earthquakes, the ones topping magnitude...wins out over the friction. The strongest…...
Black Beauty meteorite reveals hidden water from ancient Mars
3+ week, 5+ day ago (964+ words) always true. A chunk of Martian rock that crashed to Earth still carries water sealed inside its minerals....led the team behind the scan. Her colleagues came from Denmark, Sweden, and Switzerland, and together they...the Martian surface by an…...
Frozen ground shakes differently, and that could reveal ice buried on the Moon
2+ week, 5+ day ago (1034+ words) everything they drink or breathe must be launched from Earth first. The pole has a local supply: ice, frozen...of the ground is one that doesn’t need to ride up from Earth. “It’s crucial to identify any materials on the......
NASA satellite captures a spectacular turquoise halo around the Chatham Islands, and an underwater plateau nearly 500 miles long could be the cause of this strange ocean phenomenon
3+ week, 1+ day ago (623+ words) miles east of the South Island, and the color came from a summer bloom of phytoplankton. The scene is beautiful,...water changes color and the bloom becomes visible from orbit. How can hidden terrain paint the sea above...became a…...
Earthquake reveals a hidden danger beneath a remote Arctic island
5+ day, 7+ hour ago (820+ words) its grip on the rock for years. The findings come from an international team of scientists led by Guilherme...on the moment magnitude scale. About 7 kilometers from the epicenter, a slope above the Kjerulf Glacier...in the northern Atlantic, roughly…...
Antarctica plays a major role in global climate
3+ week, 5+ day ago (859+ words) thresholds toward long-term loss. Antarctica sits farther from most people than any place on Earth, and it still helps set the temperature outside...Its bright surface bounces sunlight back toward space before the ocean underneath can absorb it. Dark...Circumpolar…...
Grand Canyon timeline rewritten by uranium dating
3+ week, 5+ day ago (945+ words) survives shows up as slanted wedges of rock visible from a handful of overlooks. John Wesley Powell noticed...One line of argument ties the erosion to Snowball Earth glaciations that began about 717 million years...
Volcanoes deliver rock older than the continents
3+ week, 6+ day ago (782+ words) on volcanoes to deliver the samples instead. Lava from Hawaii and Iceland carries helium, ruthenium, and...signatures that point to a source near the boundary with Earth's core, about 1,800 miles down. The mantle holds roughly 84 percent of Earth’s…...