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Ancient rocks show earliest evidence of tectonic activity on Earth
The origins of plate tectonics on Earth are hotly debated, but evidence from Australia now shows that parts of the crust ...
America’s Biggest Rare-Earth Producer Makes a Play to End China’s Dominance
MP Materials’ goal to become a national rare-earths “champion” that can go toe-to-toe with China was turbocharged by Pentagon ...
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We’ve Dammed So Much Water, Earth’s Poles Have Shifted
When large masses of water are moved from one place to another, this changes the shape of Earth and leads to a phenomenon ...
The southern hemisphere is full of birds found nowhere else on Earth. Their importance has been overlooked
The snow petrel, a strikingly white bird with black eyes and a black bill, is one of only three bird species ever observed at ...
US rare earth pricing system is poised to challenge China's dominance
U.S. efforts to break China's dominance of the rare earths market and to drive investment in its own industry have moved up a ...
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Astronomers discover giant alien planet 35 times more massive than Earth hiding in a known star system
The newfound exoplanet, called Kepler-139f, is a gigantic world roughly twice the mass of Neptune and 35 times the mass of ...
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Russian volcano grows 'devil horns' and spits out 1,000-mile-long river of smoke — Earth from space
A false-color satellite photo from 2023 shows a devilish pair of lava flows and an enormous plume of smoke spewing from ...
The Secret to Better Airplane Navigation Could Be Inside the Earth’s Crust
With GPS increasingly vulnerable to tampering, planes need more reliable navigation systems. The magnetic pull in the Earth’s ...