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  1. Earth

    Earth’s continental plates were moving 3.48 billion years ago

    Magnetic crystals provide the earliest evidence yet of the plate tectonics that likely made Earth habitable, pushing its start back by 140 million years.

    By Douglas Fox
  2. Microbes

    How warming is shifting microbial worlds

    Climate change is affecting microbes, and that has implications for all life on Earth.

    By Erin Garcia de Jesús
  3. Physics

    A static electricity mystery comes to the surface

    Seemingly random charging of identical materials depends on the carbonaceous molecules stuck to their surfaces

    By Emily Conover
  4. Earth

    To make a ‘Snowball Earth,’ sci-fi moves fast. Geology is far slower

    The Day After Tomorrow, Snowpiercer, Snowball Earth: Such end-of-days visions of a frozen Earth are fantastical … but can contain a snowflake of truth.