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Astronomy

Moonquakes Can Launch 15-Ton Boulders

Here’s a wild thought: the Moon isn’t the dead, silent rock we once believed it to be. It shudders. It slips. It even tosses boulders down its slopes like a petulant child flipping over toy blocks. And thanks to a recent study, we now have concrete—well, lunar regolith—evidence of this surprisingly active behavior. This isn’t […]

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Geology

A 2,200-Meter Hole Changed Drilling Forever

Picture this: you’re trying to drill a hole deeper than two Empire State Buildings stacked on top of each other… into rock formations that are unpredictable, pressurized, and as cranky as a toddler missing naptime. That’s exactly what a team of engineers in western Iran just did. In the Changuleh Oilfield, a place infamous for […]

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Environment

Uncovering Ancient Climate Secrets from 1.5 million-Year-Old Ice

In an era of rapid climate change and scientific innovation, a team of researchers is about to unlock the ancient secrets hidden within a 1.5 million-year-old ice core from Antarctica. This discovery promises to revolutionize our understanding of past climate conditions and offers new insights into the Earth’s climatic future. Recently, BBC News highlighted this […]

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Geology

What Happens When You Dig Under a Building?

Remember this scene from Better Call Saul? Gus and associates are thinking big. Can they build a methamphetamine lab–underneath a laundromat? Let’s say you’ve just parked downtown—after circling the block for 20 minutes—and you’re grumbling about how there’s never enough parking. Now imagine a solution: What if we could just add underground space to buildings […]

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Geology

The Ancient Engine Beneath Yellowstone

Think Yellowstone is just about geysers and grizzly bears? Buckle up. It turns out the supervolcano we all know and fear is only the latest act in a fiery saga that’s been burning for over 56 million years. That’s right — before the first mammoth ever stomped across the plains, before the Rockies had finished […]

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Geology

When Rocks Rewrite History: The Altyn Orogen Mystery

Hold on to your hiking boots—scientists just found evidence that could rewrite the geological history of the Tibetan Plateau! The Altyn Orogen, a mountain range stretching over 400 kilometers, was thought to be built on ancient, stable Precambrian rocks. But recent discoveries are shaking things up—turns out, the South Margin of Central Altyn (SMCA) might […]

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Biology

Are We Living in a New Epoch? Scientists Just Measured How Much We Know

Picture this: A future geologist cracks open the Earth’s crust and finds layers of plastic, radioactive isotopes from nuclear tests, and chicken bones—yes, chicken bones—fossilized into the rock. Welcome to the Anthropocene, a proposed new epoch where human activity has become the defining force shaping the planet. But here’s the real question: How many of […]

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Geology

When the Earth Cracked: The Story of the 2023 Türkiye Earthquake

Consider this: the Earth rumbles beneath your feet, cracks appear in the ground, and seismic waves race through the crust at speeds faster than sound. Sounds like a scene from a sci-fi movie, right? But this isn’t fiction—it’s the real-life story of the 2023 Türkiye earthquake, an event so powerful it reshaped our understanding of […]

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