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Naica Cave of Crystals: Earth’s Giant Selenite
In April 2000, two brothers drilling a tunnel 300 metres beneath a Mexican mountain...
May 29, 2026
Indian Ocean Gravity Hole Explained
The Indian Ocean “Gravity Hole”: How Earth’s Largest Geoid Low Formed
May 28, 2026
The Bermuda Anomaly: An Island Floating on a 20-km Raft
New seismic imaging shows Bermuda is held up by a thick slab of cooled...
May 28, 2026
Geraisite: Brazil’s First Tektite Strewn Field Discovered
A Stone From the Cerrado
Sometime in 2023, a man in northern Minas...
May 27, 2026
Mount Rainier’s 1507 Lahar Buried a Forest Alive
Introduction
In late summer of 1507, a Douglas-fir stood in what is now...
May 27, 2026
Ethiopia’s Hayli Gubbi Eruption After 12,000 Years
Introduction
On 23 November 2025, a shield volcano in Ethiopia’s Afar...
May 26, 2026
Diamond Anvil Reveals Earth’s Hidden Ocean
A Diamond Anvil in Guangzhou
At the State Key Laboratory of Deep Earth...
May 26, 2026
Did Earth Have Rings? The Ordovician Asteroid Halo Mystery
In September 2024, a Monash University team proposed that Earth had a Saturn-like ring...
May 26, 2026
First-Ever Fault Rupture Caught on Camera
How a CCTV clip from the 2025 Mandalay earthquake rewrote seismology
The afternoon...
May 25, 2026
Argoland: The Lost Continent Hidden Under Indonesia
Introduction
Argoland is a lost continent that broke off northwest Australia roughly 155...
May 24, 2026
Laschamps Excursion: When Earth’s Field Collapsed
Introduction
In a fourth-floor office of the Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering...
May 23, 2026
Birth of a Sixth Ocean: Inside the Turkana Rift’s Final Act
On a hillside in West Turkana, late-Miocene mudstones tilt toward the sky in alternating...
May 23, 2026
Doggerland: The Megatsunami That Drowned Europe’s Lost Land
Introduction
It is a wet September night in 1931, and the...
May 23, 2026
Greenland’s 9-Day Seismic Mystery Explained
The Dickson Fjord Landslide of September 2023
At 12:35 UTC on...
May 23, 2026
World’s Oldest Impact Crater Found in Pilbara
Introduction
On a hot morning in May 2021, Chris Kirkland, Tim Johnson and...
May 21, 2026
Earth’s Inner Core Reverses Its Spin, Learn Why
Introduction
In June 2024, a team led by Wei Wang and...
May 20, 2026
Snowball Earth: When the Equator Froze
Introduction
In the early 1990s, Phil Schmidt and George Williams ran...
May 20, 2026
Tanis: The Hour the Dinosaurs Died, in One Layer
A paddlefish, upside down in sandstone, with glass beads packed between its gill rakers....
May 19, 2026
Libyan Desert Glass: King Tut’s Scarab & the Impact Debate
On 29 December 1932, a Ford Model A truck ground to a halt in...
May 17, 2026
The Great Dying: Earth’s Deadliest Extinction
Introduction
The Great Dying took place 251.902 million years...
May 16, 2026
