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Bizarre Magnetic Anomaly Beneath Australia Has a Surprisingly Familiar Shape
7+ mon, 2+ day ago (380+ words) Geologists have mapped a strange magnetic anomaly in Australia – and in a stunning coincidence, it happens to look remarkably like the continent it lurks beneath. The anomaly seems to feature its own version of Queensland's point in the north, reaches…...
The Mystery of Intense Magnetism on The Moon Is Finally Solved
5+ mon, 4+ week ago (671+ words) A new study may have solved a long-standing mystery about the Moon's magnetism: Why do lunar rocks brought back by the Apollo missions show evidence of an intense magnetic field sometimes rivaling or exceeding that of Earth today? Considering the…...
A Massive Volcano Destroyed Methane in The Sky, And Scientists Are Stunned
4+ mon, 15+ min ago (695+ words) A cataclysmic volcanic eruption is one of the most violent and disruptive things our planet can do. Vast clouds of ash and gas burst into the atmosphere, while blisteringly hot molten rock surges upward and rolls across the surface, destroying…...
Strange Red Rocks in Australia Are Preserving Fossils in Stunning Detail
10+ mon, 4+ week ago (736+ words) Hidden beneath farmland in the central tablelands of New South Wales lies one of Australia's most extraordinary fossil sites – McGraths Flat. It dates back between 11 million and 16 million years into the Miocene epoch, a time when many of today's familiar…...
Earliest Chemical Traces of Life on Earth Discovered in 3.3-Billion-Year-Old Rock
9+ mon, 3+ week ago (682+ words) Fossilized remnants of ancient carbon from the heart of South Africa's Mpumalanga province have just yielded the earliest chemical evidence yet of life on Earth. According to a new analysis using machine learning, fragmentary traces of carbon from the Josefsdal…...
The World's First Nuclear Explosion Forged an 'Impossible' Crystal
4+ mon, 1+ day ago (419+ words) We don't always get to pinpoint the exact moment the world changes....
Unexpected 'Zig-Zag' Structures Discovered in Earth's Magnetic Field
9+ mon, 2+ week ago (424+ words) A strange phenomenon thought to only exist near the Sun has been detected in Earth's magnetic field for the first time. The discovery could help scientists forecast the impact of geomagnetic storms more accurately. Physicists Emily McDougall and Matthew Argall…...
A Quiet Region of Italy Is Hiding a Vast Reservoir of Magma
4+ mon, 3+ 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…...
Lithium Plume in Our Atmosphere Traced Back to Returning SpaceX Rocket
6+ mon, 2+ week ago (687+ words) Space junk returning to the Earth is introducing metal pollution to the pristine upper atmosphere as it burns up on re-entry, a new study has found. Published today in the journal Communications Earth & Environment, the study was led by Robin…...
'Megathrust' Earthquake Could Trigger San Andreas Fault, Scientists Warn
10+ mon, 3+ week ago (508+ words) A newly identified link between two notorious geologic zones suggests a major earthquake at one site could trigger another huge quake at the other, creating a double-whammy of destruction. Researchers led by a team from Oregon State University analyzed 137 different…...