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Modern-day Africa was the keystone of Gondwana, the aggregated mass of southern continents that co-existed for nearly 400m years. That supercontinent has since split apart, creating the land masses we…
As of today, the world might have changed forever. A fundamental assumption underpinning much of modern geochemistry is that the earth has the same composition as a class of meteorites called chondrites…
Geological features of the Great Rift Valley, birthplace of the human species, may be much older than previously believed…
Images from NASA’s Dawn spacecraft have revealed unusual geological features on the surface of the asteroid Vesta, one of…
Scientists have used gravitational measurements from the low-flying Goce satellite to map the boundary between the earth’s…
A year ago yesterday the Tōhoku-Oki earthquake and resultant tsunami hit the Japanese coastline, triggering the Fukushima nuclear reactor disaster. A year on, many questions are being asked about how bad…
Earlier this year, an international team of scientists reported that a sample of natural “quasicrystal” found in a Russian mountain range had formed 4.5 billion years ago and arrived on Earth as a meteorite…
X-rays of the moon have shown that, unlike Earth, our rocky satellite has no active volcanos, and hasn’t for billions of…
In the future, Eurasia and America will collide to form a new supercontinent, say geologists at Yale University. The new…
By the time the Apollo Program ended in 1972 it had cost NASA roughly US$170 billion dollars (in today’s terms). It was seen as a waste of money by some, but almost 40 years since the launch of Apollo…
Traces of the supercontinent Gondwana in the Indian Ocean have been discovered by a German-Australian team of marine geologists…
Rocks from xenoliths in the Philippines carrying deep water samples have provided new insight into the water cycle of the…
Antarctica has gone from paradise to polar ice in just a few million years – the blink of an eye in the life of the earth…
We know a lot about how humans evolved. But when it comes to our planet, we’re on shakier ground. Inert (nonreactive) gases, such as helium, neon and argon, trapped inside the mantle (Earth’s thickest…
Witwatersrand National Botanical Gardens, South Africa. A long-running debate over the origins of the world’s largest and…
Diamonds from 700 kilometres below the earth’s surface show the carbon cycle extends deep into the planet’s interior. The…
Since its discovery in August 2008, the site of Malapa in Johannesburg has yielded more than 220 bones of early hominins representing at least six individuals, including the remains of babies, juveniles…
A study published in Nature Geoscience yesterday reports the discovery of 3.4 billion-year-old microbial cells in ancient sandstones in Western Australia’s Pilbara region. Some headlines have suggested…
Scientists have successfully predicted the eruption of undersea volcano, Axial Seamount. Bill Chadwick, Orgeon State University…
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