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7,845 results for: Geology

  1. Paleontology

    Apes and Old World monkeys may have split later than thought

    A 29- to 28-million-year-old primate fossil found in Saudi Arabia assists scientists in timing a major evolutionary transition.

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  2. Earth

    Arctic lake yields climate record

    A Siberian drilling project goes to great lengths to capture an ancient climate record in a 3.6 million-year-old crater.

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  3. Earth

    Climate action could save polar bears

    Cutting fossil fuel emissions soon would retain enough sea ice habitat for threatened species, scientists say.

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  4. Earth

    Primordial bestiary gets an annex

    A classic Canadian fossil trove extends to thinner deposits, geologists find.

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  5. Humans

    Periodic table gets some flex

    IUPAC committee replaces fuzzy atomic weights with more accurate ranges

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  6. Humans

    GNP’s glaciers: Going, going . . .

    Climate warming will eliminate them within a generation, data indicate.

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  7. Planetary Science

    Hole from on high

    Researchers discover a fresh meteorite impact crater using Google Earth.

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  8. 2010 Science News of the Year: Earth

    Credit: Alvaro Ybarra Zavala/Getty Images Inside the Haiti quake Some 230,000 Haitians died when a magnitude-7 earthquake struck just outside Port-au-Prince on the afternoon of January 12. Scientists from around the world scrambled to the scene (SN Online: 1/16/10) to assess which fault had ruptured and whether more people were at risk. Early ideas held […]

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  9. Earth

    Japan quake location a surprise

    Based on regional tectonics, seismologists expected the biggest events in the island's southern half.

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  10. Space

    Famous Martian meteorite younger than thought

    The famous fragment of Mars, once proposed to hold signs of extraterrestrial life, is still pretty old. But the rock appears to have formed about 400 million years later than earlier analyses indicated.

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  11. Dawn of the Dinosaurs

    Paleontologists probe the majestic reptiles’ origin and rise.

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  12. Earth

    Scour power

    Big storms shift coastal erosion into overdrive.

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