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Before sunrise the salt plain gives nothing away. The Asale...

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A guide and a tourist are picking their way across...

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Some patterns in nature look too deliberate to be accidental. The hexagonal...

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Walk the bank of the Shanay-timpishka and the first thing...

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Desert varnish is a dark, paper-thin coating of manganese and...

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The Batagay megaslump, often called the Batagaika crater, is the largest retrogressive...

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On the evening of January 12, 1927, a 44-year-old geology...

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On the night of July 9, 1958, a wall of...

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On a low rise of Arctic tundra near the Norwegian...

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Just before 11 p.m. on 8 September 2023, security cameras around Marrakech...

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In May 1972, at the uranium-enrichment plant at Pierrelatte in...

A Light in the Abyss

The Lost City Hydrothermal Field is...

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In the summer field season of 1911, a young Australian geologist named...

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A limnic eruption is one of Earth’s strangest killers, an...

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On June 4, 1965, James McDivitt and Ed White were four days...

In April 2000, two brothers drilling a tunnel 300 metres beneath a Mexican mountain...

The Indian Ocean “Gravity Hole”: How Earth’s Largest Geoid Low Formed

New seismic imaging shows Bermuda is held up by a thick slab of cooled...

A Stone From the Cerrado

Sometime in 2023, a man in northern Minas...

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In late summer of 1507, a Douglas-fir stood in what is now...