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Geoscientists are using telecom ‘dark fibres’ to map Earth’s innards

Fibre optic cables designed to carry telecommunications can also be used to map Earth’s interior Connect world/Shutterstock Offline telecom cables…

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12 awe-inspiring landscape photos showing off Earth’s beauty

The black sands of Iceland, snow-packed peaks of Chile, and burnt-orange sand dunes of Namibia: The natural scenery images from…

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Earth’s oldest known earthquake was probably triggered by plate tectonics

Scientists studying rocks in South Africa report evidence for the earliest known earthquake triggered by plate tectonics. The temblor struck more…

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A teeny device can measure subtle shifts in Earth’s gravitational field

There’s a new entrant in the competition to develop ever-tinier instruments that can detect changes in our planet’s gravitational field…

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13 award-winning photographs that showcase Earth’s wonders

A colorful fish market on the shores of Vietnam, an elephant splashing sand on its wrinkled skin, and a solitary…

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Super Earths that seem to have oceans may actually be covered in magma

An illustration of exoplanet K2-18b based on scientific observations NASA, ESA, CSA, Joseph Olmsted (STScI) A type of planet thought…

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Lynas Rare Earths had talks with MP Materials, though `not ongoing’

RHJ/iStock via Getty Images Lynas Rare Earths (OTCPK:LYSCF) said it had confidential talks with MP Materials (NYSE:MP) regarding a possible…

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Why the Peregrine moon lander was burned up in Earth’s atmosphere

The launch of the Peregrine lunar lander aboard a Vulcan rocket on 8 January APFootage / Alamy Stock Photo The…

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Earth’s largest ape went extinct 100,000 years earlier than once thought

The world’s largest ape vanished from Earth more than 100,000 years earlier than once thought, pushed to extinction as the…

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Central American volcanoes offer clues to Earth’s geological evolution

This article was originally featured on Knowable Magazine. Over millions of years, the Earth’s upper layers have performed a dance…

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