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An Active Volcano May Be Creating a Valuable Metal Deposit Deep Underground
2+ hour, 1+ min ago (322+ words) Volcanoes can wreak devastation when they erupt, but they're also a valuable natural resource: the liquids that bubble up from magma are often rich in important metals....
'Very Unexpected': NASA Rover Zapped a Rock on Mars And Found a Gemstone Surprise
1+ week, 4+ day ago (608+ words) When NASA's Perseverance rover used its laser to tease apart some pale rocks lying around in Jezero Crater in 2025, scientists did not expect anything out of the ordinary....
As Ice Melts, Antarctica Is Leaking Mercury Into The Ocean
2+ week, 3+ 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…...
California's Drought Has Now Caused Irreversible Damage to a Crucial Aquifer
2+ week, 6+ day ago (708+ words) The cracks in parched soils are only a superficial, if harrowing, sign of drought. To fully understand the impact of long-lasting droughts made worse by climate change, scientists need to know what's happening deep underground – in the world's aquifers. These…...
Earth's Inner Core Could Be Full Of Extreme Hydrogen Unlike Anything on The Surface
3+ week, 1+ day 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....
Earth's Biggest Disasters Strike in a Hidden Pattern Every 27 Million Years
4+ week, 8+ hour ago (737+ words) Mass extinctions. Giant volcanic eruptions. Oceans suddenly deprived of oxygen. At first glance, Earth's biggest geological disasters seem to have little in common beyond their sheer scale. But for decades, scientists have wondered whether these seemingly unrelated events might actually…...
World First: Scientists Witnessed a Piece of Earth's Oceanic Crust Being Born
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (523+ words) Most of our planet's crust is forged in a thalassic factory human eyes never see....
Scientists Find a Razor-Sharp Line of Earthquakes Hidden Beneath Alaska
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (230+ words) Back in 2002, a massive earthquake in central Alaska was felt as far away as Seattle....
Fossil Kept in a Drawer For 40 Years Turns Out to Be Antarctica's First Evidence of Dinosaurs
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (284+ words) A fossil that has been sitting in a drawer for 40 years has turned out to be the first piece of dinosaur ever retrieved from Antarctica....
A Strange, Boiling Hole Just Appeared Out of Nowhere in Yellowstone
1+ mon, 4+ week ago (803+ words) A churning pool of water has opened up in Yellowstone National Park – just two days after scientists were walking around on the exact patch of ground. The spot where they were standing was replaced by a silt-gray pit the size…...