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Discovery Of Fairy Circles In Australia Helps Scientists Pinpoint Their...

Environment It's not from fairies (probably) In a paper published yesterday in PNAS, scientists report that they have found them in the western Australian outback and that they are nearly identical to...

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Volcanoes Go Quiet Just Before They Erupt

Environment An observation that could help scientists predict the next big boom A team of researchers from multiple universities has found that volcanoes go quiet just before eruption. Furthermore,...

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Neighborhood Unknowingly Destroys "Iconic" Earthquake Science Spot

Science This shifting curb kept track of a California fault A San Francisco Bay Area Neighborhood unwittingly removed an important earthquake science site.

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Did An Asteroid Help The Dinosaurs?

Environment Their global domination may have been boosted by a massive asteroid impact A study by Japanese researchers suggests that the massive Manicouagan Crater in the Canadian province of Quebec...

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How Long Would It Take To Fall Through The World?

Science Longer than you might think Would you fall through the world if there was a giant hole, or just die in the center?

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Earth’s first continent? Probably a giant continental crust

Science It was not filled with chocolate New research casts light on how earth’s first continents formed – and a key theory of geology…

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NASA's new ozone layer watchdog takes orbit

Space The ozone layer is no longer thinning, but we need to keep an eye on it If you should ever wonder how Earth’s ole ozone layer is holding up, rest assured, because NASA is watching it,...

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What would happen if Earth started to spin faster?

Space Even a 1 mph speed boost would make things pretty weird If Earth were to suddenly spin out of control, you'd probably be too dead to worry about it. But we asked some experts just to see how it...

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Earth Overshoot Day came early this year. That’s a bad thing.

Environment We consumed a year’s worth of natural resources in just seven months. Earth Overshoot Day marks the point on the calendar at which humans have consumed a year’s worth of natural resources....

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The collision that formed the moon may have delivered the building blocks of...

Space Sort of a two-birds-with-one-planet-sized-stone situation. The origin of the moon and the origin of life on Earth might be more tied together than we once thought, according to a new study in...

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