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7,846 results for: Geology

  1. Planetary Science

    New rock type found on moon

    Odd spots on the lunar farside could be ancient material that originated deep inside the moon.

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  2. Earth

    How continents do the splits

    East African seismic study reveals how land gives way to ocean crust.

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  3. Earth

    Great quake one of the biggest ever in Japan

    BLOG: Magnitude-8.9 tremor will go down in seismology’s record books

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  4. Planetary Science

    Venus, erupting?

    Lava flow suggests recent volcanism on Earth’s nearest planetary neighbor.

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  5. Earth

    Earth/Environment

    Licorice may be a natural alternative to antibiotics on hog farms, plus more in this week’s news.

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  6. Like a Bolt from Above

    Lightning scientists begin to solve electric mysteries.

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  7. A year on the job, she takes pride in disaster response

    When she took over in November 2009 as the first female director of the U.S. Geological Survey, geophysicist Marcia McNutt already had her work cut out for her in streamlining and modernizing a historic scientific agency. That was before a string of natural disasters—earthquakes in Haiti and Chile, a volcanic eruption in Iceland and the […]

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  8. Continental Hearts

    Ancient expanses called cratons pose a geological puzzle

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  9. Earth

    Warm spell spurred tropical biodiversity

    The number of plant species exploded in South America as atmospheric carbon dioxide, and temperatures, rose abruptly about 56 million years ago.

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  10. Basic research generates jobs and competitiveness

    Trained as a mechanical engineer in India, Subra Suresh researched the interfaces between engineering, biology and materials science before becoming dean of engineering at MIT and, as of October, director of the U.S. National Science Foundation. In February in Washington, D.C., at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Suresh […]

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  11. Humans

    Collapsing Coastlines

    How Arctic shores are pulled a-sea 

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  12. Life

    Life

    A spider that's drawn to smelly socks, plus more in this week's news

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