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Earth's Crust Is 'Unzipping' Under Italy
3+ day, 5+ hour ago (606+ words) Deep beneath our feet, the slow machinery of Earth is always turning....
As Ice Melts, Antarctica Is Leaking Mercury Into The Ocean
1+ mon, 6+ day ago (617+ words) Across the last 200 years, Antarctica has been copping a whole lot of mercury pollution, despite humanity's best efforts to keep the frozen continent relatively untouched. Mercury is released into the environment naturally by volcanoes and geological weathering, but ever since…...
Earth's Inner Core Could Be Full Of Extreme Hydrogen Unlike Anything on The Surface
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (364+ words) The Earth is akin to a rocky, molten-in-the-middle nesting doll – or perhaps a rotting, soft-centered onion, though the latter analogy affords our majestic planet much less dignity....
World First: Scientists Witnessed a Piece of Earth's Oceanic Crust Being Born
2+ mon, 5+ day ago (523+ words) Most of our planet's crust is forged in a thalassic factory human eyes never see....
Icebergs Are Transforming Deep-Sea Ecosystems, Scientists Discover
2+ mon, 4+ week ago (252+ words) Greenland's glaciers are releasing four times more icebergs than 25 years ago as a result of climate change, with implications extending to maritime traffic and marine ecosystems, researchers said Thursday. "Our results indicate a direct, climate-driven connection between glacier change at…...
Extraordinary Fossils Solve a 500-Million-Year Evolution Mystery
3+ mon, 1+ day ago (236+ words) The Cambrian explosion was one of the most dramatic chapters in the history of evolution....
Earth's Core May Be Wrapped in an Ancient, Unexpected Structure
3+ mon, 2+ day ago (173+ words) The highest-resolution map yet of the underlying geology beneath Earth's Southern Hemisphere revealed something we had never known before: an ancient ocean floor that may wrap around the core....
Something Made Earth's Molten Core Reverse Direction in 2010
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (758+ words) Something strange is going on, deep below the ground beneath our feet. In the molten ocean of iron churning in Earth's outer core, a section deep beneath the Pacific Ocean suddenly reversed direction and started moving eastward against the planet's…...
The World's First Nuclear Explosion Forged an 'Impossible' Crystal
4+ mon, 2+ day ago (419+ words) We don't always get to pinpoint the exact moment the world changes....
A Quiet Region of Italy Is Hiding a Vast Reservoir of Magma
4+ mon, 4+ week ago (463+ words) Scientists have discovered a vast reservoir of magma bubbling beneath the Tuscan soil that may not yet have erupted. With no obvious volcano to mark the spot, the immensity of the system and its extreme heat had gone unmeasured until…...