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On a fine day in June 1788, three men rowed...

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A carpenter named Ace Hopewell rode his motorcycle up San Francisquito Canyon...

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Sometime in the small hours of the second day, a young man...

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On 10 July 1913, the caretaker at Greenland Ranch, a...

A clear bottle that would not obey

In a laboratory that...

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If you’re new here, welcome to Geoscopy, a geology science-communication project dedicated...

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A glacier and the bedrock beneath it broke off the...

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On the morning of 1 November 2011, a Hawaiian surfer...

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In 2013, a benthic chamber about the size of a...

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In the winter of 1986, a diving instructor named Kihachiro...

In the early 2000s, petroleum geoscientist Philip Allen noticed a set of concentric rings...

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Early on the morning of November 20, 1980, the drilling...

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Fly east out of Seattle, cross the Cascades, and the...

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In a laboratory in Vienna, in the spring of 2009,...

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On July 17, 2026, audiences filed into IMAX theaters to...

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The Venezuela earthquake of 24 June 2026 began...

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Sometime between 2010 and 2012, the British photographer Nick Brandt...

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On Valentine’s Day 1981, twelve-year-old Todd Domboski crossed his grandmother’s...

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On a June afternoon in 1890, in the wooded uplands...

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In August 2013, an Adelaide opal buyer named Mike Poben...