How Earth’s Mantle Is Like A Jackson Pollock Painting
In countless grade-school science textbooks, the Earth’s mantle is a yellow-to-orange gradient, a nebulously defined layer between the crust and
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In countless grade-school science textbooks, the Earth’s mantle is a yellow-to-orange gradient, a nebulously defined layer between the crust and
Read moreA gassy insulating layer beneath the icy surfaces of distant celestial objects could mean there are more oceans in the
Read moreThe irregular galaxy NGC 4485 shows all the signs of having been involved in a hit-and-run accident with a bypassing
Read moreIn 2020, NASA and European-Russian missions will look for evidence of past life on Mars. But while volcanic, igneous rock
Read moreNew discoveries made at the Klasies River Cave in South Africa’s southern Cape, where charred food remains from hearths were
Read moreWhich came first, the pigs or the pioneers? In Barbados, that has been a historical mystery ever since the first
Read moreA lunar lander named for the Chinese goddess of the moon may have lessened the mystery of the far side
Read moreRussian and German physicists have offered an explanation for the new data obtained by Martian satellites, capturing the “escape” of
Read moreThe human environmental footprint is not only deep, but old. Ancient traces of this footprint can be found in animal
Read moreA 2010 analysis of imagery from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) found that the moon shriveled like a raisin as
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