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Dust storm covers Iraq for second time in a week

A dust storm blanketed Iraq again on Tuesday, sending people to hospital with breathing difficulties and leading airports to suspend flights. It follows a similar...

New study confirms potential of geoelectrical methods in search for hidden graves

Rather than digging to identify unmarked mass grave sites or evidence to locate missing persons, cutting-edge technologies are helping law enforcement agents, forensic scientists...

Understanding the Earth under Hawaii

In the 1960s, some 50 years after German researcher Alfred Wegener proposed his continental drift hypothesis, the theory of plate tectonics gave scientists a...

Scientists detect unexpected widespread structures near Earth’s core

University of Maryland geophysicists analyzed thousands of recordings of seismic waves, sound waves traveling through the Earth, to identify echoes from the boundary between...

Paleogene Period

The Paleogene is a geologic period and system that began 66 and ended 23.03 million years ago and comprises the first part of the...

Early Earth’s atmosphere was less conducive to lightning

In 1952, Stanley Miller and Harold Urey made sparks fly in a gas-filled flask meant to reflect the composition of Earth's atmosphere around 3.8...

Aftershocks of 1959 earthquake rocked Yellowstone in 2017-18

On Aug. 17, 1959, back when Dwight D. Eisenhower was president, the U.S. had yet to send a human to space and the nation’s...

Secondary cratering on Earth: The Wyoming impact crater field

Several dozen small impact craters, 10-70-m in size, have been discovered in southeastern Wyoming. A team of U.S. and German geoscientists found these ancient...

Researchers publish most thorough study yet of ‘smart,’ spitting archerfishes

Archerfishes are the anti-aircraft gunners of the aquatic world. The fishes are famed for their amazing ability to shoot down land-based insects midflight with...

Astronomers capture surprising changes in Neptune’s temperatures

An international team of astronomers have used ground-based telescopes, including the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT), to track Neptune’s atmospheric temperatures...

Is it time to send another message to intelligent aliens?

Researchers want to open up a dialogue about what humanity should advertise about itself in deep space. Scientists have crafted a new message for any...

NASA’s ‘Mega moon rocket’ test resumes. Why were so many details about it kept secret?

NASA's was extra guarded about its big rocket test. NASA's new mega moon rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS), is getting one step closer to...

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