8+ hour, 26+ min ago  (850+ words) Kyawthuite, found in Myanmar, is known from a single gemstone and may be the rarest mineral on Earth. (CREDIT: Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County) The world's rarest mineral does not look especially imposing at first glance. It is…...

4+ day, 2+ hour ago  (1115+ words) A Stanford study challenges a decades-old geological theory, finding that meandering rivers likely existed long before plants colonized land, with major implications for climate and carbon storage history. (CREDIT: Shutterstock) A new study from Stanford University challenges that long-standing view....

6+ day, 4+ hour ago  (911+ words) Rising Arctic iceberg traffic is dropping rocks onto the deep seafloor, boosting biodiversity and raising new risks for ships. (CREDIT: Alfred Wegener Institute / Christian R. Rohleder)) Far below the Arctic's drifting ice, the seafloor has begun to change in a way…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (1241+ words) New modeling suggests Cajon Pass sits near peak stress, raising concern about a rupture crossing two major Southern California faults. (CREDIT: Wikimedia / CC BY-SA 4. 0) The ground north and east of Los Angeles holds one of Southern California's most uneasy meeting…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (1000+ words) Iron meteorites suggest Earth's nitrogen and phosphorus may have come from early inner solar system planetesimals. (CREDIT: NASA/FUSE/Lynette Cook) The ingredients that help make a planet livable did not necessarily come from where many scientists once thought. A…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (871+ words) This natural-color image of Ganymede was captured by the Galileo spacecraft during its first flyby of the moon. (CREDIT: NASA/JPL) Ganymede has long looked like a contradiction in orbit. Jupiter's largest moon is the only moon known to generate…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (1081+ words) In the vast deserts of Ethiopia, a remarkable phenomenon has been quietly unfolding since 2005an extraordinary 35-mile-long crack known as the East African Rift. (CREDIT: Reuters) The desert floor in Ethiopia looks fixed and ancient, but it is moving. Across the…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago  (1183+ words) Swarm constellation satellites and ground data reveal a startling 2010 reversal in molten core flow beneath the Pacific and suggest it may now be weakening. (CREDIT: ESA) A river of molten iron, more than 2, 000 kilometers below the surface, appears to have…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago  (1230+ words) Scientists found water-rich fault barriers that repeatedly stop magnitude 6 earthquakes on the Gofar transform fault. (CREDIT: Wikimedia / CC BY-SA 4. 0) Deep beneath the Pacific, one undersea fault has produced nearly identical magnitude 6 earthquakes every few years for decades. Researchers now think…...

1+ mon, 8+ hour ago  (1307+ words) The Indian Ocean Geoid Low spans 1. 2 million square miles where a deep gravity anomaly causes the sea surface to sink by as much as 106 meters. (CREDIT: AI generated via Midjourney) South of India, the ocean surface slumps into one of…...