Crystals hidden in Australia’s oldest rocks have revealed new clues about how Earth and the Moon formed. The study suggests Earth’s continents didn’t begin growing until hundreds of millions of years ...
Scientists have proposed a surprising connection between solar flares and earthquakes. When solar activity disturbs the ionosphere, it may generate electric fields that penetrate fragile fracture ...
We talk about “changing minds” or “losing our mind” as if the mind is separate from the brain. But is it? Where does the mind come from, and how does it actually work? When you try to describe the ...
In 2023 and 2024, Earth's average global surface temperature spiked nearly 0.3 degrees Celsius above what was already expected from climate change. Each year was declared the hottest on record and ...
Dai’s initial results have revealed that rainfall was low in South Africa during the last glacial maximum and increased as ...
NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Paul Bedrosian of the U.S. Geological Survey about a new map and model of the deep continental ...
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