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7,846 results for: Geology

  1. Earth

    Shaky Forecasts

    Despite past failures, geophysicists think earthquake prediction might still be possible.

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  2. Earth

    Buried-lakes story wins top award

    Some readers may be unaware of our sister publication, Science News for Kids, a weekly online magazine for middle-school readers. This morning, we learned that one of the site’s feature stories — Where Rivers Run Uphill — won this year’s top science journalism award for reporting news for children.

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  3. Archaeology

    Europe’s oldest stone hand axes emerge in Spain

    Researchers report identifying Europe’s oldest stone hand axes at Spanish sites dating to 900,000 and 760,000 years ago.

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  4. Earth

    Erosion, on the down low

    Experiments show how microscopic fungi attack minerals to begin the erosion process.

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  5. Weed Killer in the Crosshairs

    Concerns prompt reexamination of atrazine’s safety.

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  6. Book Review: Charles Darwin: The ‘Beagle’ Letters by Frederick Burkhardt (Editor)

    Review by Tom Siegfried.

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  7. Earth

    2009 Science News of the Year: Environment

    Recent monitoring (from a gondola in Washington state, shown) reveals that rates of tree death are up. Credit: Univ. of Washington Routine tree deaths doubled Small background rates of everyday tree death have doubled in old-growth, western forests since 1955, possibly because of climate change, researchers report (SN: 2/14/09, p. 8). In 76 plots with […]

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  8. A place removed from ‘the pressure of received ideas’

    Murray Gell-Mann, winner of the 1969 Nobel Prize in physics for his work on elementary particles (see Page 24 in this issue), was one of the originators of the Santa Fe Institute, an interdisciplinary research center in New Mexico that is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. Gell-Mann recently addressed a group of about 150 […]

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  9. Astronomy

    A damp moon: Water found inside and out

    The moon isn’t bone-dry: Its surface and interior contain an abundance of water, new studies reveal.

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  10. Life

    Portuguese trove of trilobite fossils

    Fossils include largest known trilobite specimen and groups of the ancient arthropods caught in the act of molting and spawning.

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  11. Ecosystems

    Too much intermingling puts native trout in trouble

    Even a small amount of hybridizing may cause problems for the native westslope cutthroat trout.

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  12. Dressing up dinos

    Adding soft tissue to bone helps scientists, paleoartists bring ancient creatures to life.

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