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7,845 results for: Geology

  1. Astronomy

    Violent birth proposed for Saturn’s moon mishmash

    A simulation suggests that giant collisions created Titan and the planet’s many smaller satellites.

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  2. Earth

    When studying a monster volcano, poke softly with a sensitive stick

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  3. Astronomy

    Curiosity to look for habitable environs

    Set to land on Mars August 5, NASA mission will search for signs that the planet could support life, now or long ago.

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  4. Physics

    As Erebus Lives and Breathes

    The Antarctica volcano’s long-lived lava lake coughs up clues to the physiology of volcanoes .

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  5. Space

    Smallest planet yields big surprises

    Spacecraft images reveal Mercury has a complicated inside and an active geologic past.

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  6. Earth

    East Coast faces faster sea level rise

    From North Carolina to Massachusetts, waters are rising more rapidly than the global average.

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  7. Earth

    Warming indicted for extreme weather

    Climate change can explain some 2011 departures from the norm.

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  8. Life

    Calcium offers clues in mass extinction

    Ocean acidification during Permian period may have caused the Great Dying.

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  9. Earth

    Indonesian quake passes without major tsunami

    A magnitude 8.6 tremor displaced far less water than the 2004 Indian Ocean disaster.

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  10. Planetary Science

    Curiosity readies for dramatic entrance

    NASA’s new Mars rover aims to alight on the Red Planet like a pop star being lowered onto stage.

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  11. Planetary Science

    A lifetime of curiosity: An interview with JPL director Charles Elachi

    Nadia Drake speaks with the lab head days before the Mars Science Laboratory’s scheduled landing.

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  12. Earth

    Pumping groundwater raises sea level

    Two new studies flag an underreported factor in global ocean change.

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