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Understanding how gold forms is crucial for knowing where to find it and how to extract it sustainably. McGill researchers have answered a long-standing question in geology that could lead to new ore discoveries. Researchers traveled to...
Earth system models (ESMs) help us understand climate and environmental changes. With advances in computing power, ESMs can now be run at kilometer-scale (k-scale) resolutions, capturing very fine details to better predict extreme weather and understand...

Largest ice shelf in Antarctica lurches forward once or twice each day

In Antarctica, heavy glaciers are always on the move. Conveyor belts of ice, known as ice streams, are the corridors of faster flow that...

Photographers document how the world’s largest iceberg is changing

Erosion has carved huge arches and cavernous hollows into the world’s largest iceberg as it floats through the ocean away from Antarctica, spectacular new...

International team reveals source of largest ever marsquake recorded

A global team of scientists have announced the results of an unprecedented collaboration to search for the source of the largest ever seismic event...

Largest asteroid sample ever collected is coming down to Earth

Chunks of asteroid that could tell us about the earliest days of the 4.5 billion-year-old solar system and the possible origins of water on...

Largest earthquake in 120 years rattles Melbourne

Melbourne was shaken Sunday by a rare and shallow earthquake – the largest earthquake to hit the Australian city in over a century –...

What was the largest dinosaurs?

Introduction Dinosaurs were some of the largest creatures to ever roam the earth. These prehistoric giants come in a variety of shapes and sizes, from...

New study says left-over planetesimals, not asteroids, created the moon’s largest craters

The moon's pock-marked surface tells the story of its history. It's marked by over 9,000 impact craters, according to the International Astronomical Union (IAU.)...

The largest meteorite impacts on Earth

A Curtin-led research team has found asteroid impacts on the Moon millions of years ago coincided precisely with some of the largest meteorite impacts...

Europe’s largest land predator unearthed on the Isle of Wight

Research led by palaeontologists at the University of Southampton has identified the remains of one of Europe’s largest ever land-based hunters: a dinosaur that...

Largest asteroid to approach Earth in 2022 will zoom past our planet this week

A "potentially hazardous" asteroid measuring more than a mile long will zoom past Earth this week, the largest asteroid expected to get relatively close...

Two largest marsquakes to date recorded from planet’s far side

The seismometer placed on Mars by NASA's InSight lander has recorded its two largest seismic events to date: a magnitude 4.2 and a magnitude...

Largest comet ever seen has a heart ‘blacker than coal,’ and it’s headed this way

Astronomers have measured the icy heart of one of the largest comets ever discovered — a gargantuan, 4 billion-year-old rock that's currently barreling toward...

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