The ancient philosopher Plato conjectured that the universe was composed of particular geometric shapes; the earth, of cubes. Findings from a multidisciplinary research team found…
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The Hooker River in Aoraki Mount Cook National Park, Aotearoa New Zealand. Credit: University of Canterbury Indigenous knowledge, including oral histories, mythologies, place names, and…
Manganese oxide nodules generated by the bacteria discovered by the Caltech team. The nodules are generally about 0.1 to 0.5 millimeters in diameter. Images are…
A dinosaur-like reptile leaves muddy footprints along the shoreline of a lake during a rainstorm some 234 million years ago in northwestern Argentina. Credit: Jorge…
Scientists examined hundreds of samples taken along the global ridges that contain recycled ancient oceanic crust in variable amounts. “Depleted” segments of the ridge received…
The composition of the Moon’s near side is oddly different from that of its far side, and scientists think they finally understand why. Credit: NASA/NOAA…
Skoltech scientists and their industry colleagues have found a way to use machine learning to accurately predict rock thermal conductivity. Credit: Pavel Odinev / Skoltech…
These giant mounds of fossil stromatolites from about 2.5 billion years ago are located in South Africa. For scale, notice a person’s dangling legs at…
A hiker walks along a road near Manitou Springs, Colorado, where an exposed outcrop shows a feature known as the “Great Unconformity.”Credit: Rebecca Flowers A…
The crystal structure of the feldspar anorthite under normal conditions (left) and the newly discovered high-pressure variant (right). Under normal conditions, the silicon and aluminum…
(Click image for full view.) Yudi Peak, Alaska on May 6, 2020. Before the landslide. After a cold winter, a shift in weather patterns has…
A specific area in the Tarapacá Region, in northern Chile, where some of the largest caliche deposits can be found, is featured in this image…
Microorganisms in green colonize gypsum rock to extract water from it. Johns Hopkins and UCI researchers ran lab experiments to understand the mechanisms of survival…
Published in PLOS ONE today, a study by an international team from the Perot Museum of Nature and Science in Dallas and Hokkaido University in…
Channel-forms preserved in sedimentary strata in the Hellas Basin on Mars. These well-exposed channels are archived evidence of long-lived rivers active on the Martian surface…
Sediment cores collected from the offshore fan deposited by the Ganges and Brahmaputra rivers shows that a shift towards warmer and wetter climate over the…
Infrared (upper left) and other images from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter revealed strange bare spots where the Moon’s ubiquitous dust is missing. The spots suggest…
(Click image for full view.) August 10, 2018. Mines across the United States churn out all kinds of minerals, from potash to iron to gold.…
This visualization shows the magnetic field around Earth, or the magnetosphere. Earth’s magnetic field origins are still a mystery, a new MIT study finds. Credit:…
Predator paradise — The giant predatory dinosaur Carcharodontosaurus eyes a group of Elosuchus — crocodile-like hunters — near a carcass. Credit: Artwork by Davide Bonadonna…