A new way of thinking about the history of the Earth.
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Geoscience
The story of the doom-bringing rock may help us prevent a repeat catastrophe.
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The deepest extract from the middle layer of the Earth offers a wonderland of insights.
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Learning to appreciate the big picture.
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How geology resolves the Fermi paradox.
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Ancient currents seemed to move in concert with a 2.4 million-year dance between the Red Planet and Earth.
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Scientists have long puzzled over the behavior of mixed particles in rivers and landslides. New clues could be groundbreaking.
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Climate change may exacerbate the quiet catastrophe of slow-moving landslides.
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A geological discovery shows how carbon was captured to chill the planet.
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How historic records and new data uncovered the colossal underwater avalanche that unleashed a massive wave in 1650.
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