A new study shows the monument’s most exotic stones did not arrive by chance but were instead deliberately selected and transported.
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Sinkholes are fairly common in Philadelphia due to aging water lines that leak or burst, causing the surrounding soil to wash away.
Earth has experienced many icehouse and greenhouse climates. A new study shows how they connect to plate tectonics.
Vaporising crystals with a laser allows us to look deep into Earth’s past.
Greenland’s rare earth element deposits may be among the world’s largest by volume.
Young Earth was a blue planet covered in oceans, much like today. But the atmosphere was a lethal cocktail of gases, with no oxygen.
For a million years, one of humanity’s last cousins lived on an island in Indonesia. Why did they disappear?
Hundreds of meteorites fall to Earth each year. If you’re lucky enough to find one, here’s what to do.
Ancient microbes built reefs in unusual places.
Highly detailed fossils are typically found in shale or other fine-grained sedimentary rocks. These ones? They’re made of iron.
Biosphere 2 isn’t just the site of a famous human experiment. Today, scientists there work to understand how life emerges in barren environments.
A planetary scientist walks through the sensors and systems that went into the recent detection of potential biosignatures.
Unique, spotted rocks in Mars’ Jezero Crater could indicate that the planet once hosted life.
A new ocean is slowly forming from beneath Africa.
Understanding the similarities and differences of the deserts on Earth and Mars will help space travelers survive future missions to the red planet.
Pillars of hot rock connect moving BLOBS in the deep Earth to giant volcanic eruptions at its surface.
On an explosiveness scale from Hawaii to Vesuvius, the latest from Mount Etna was relatively mild.
The mysterious ‘ghost mountains’ – buried beneath kilometres of Antarctic ice – have puzzled scientists for decades.
The Earth started as a mixture of gas and dust around the Sun and grew as it collided with asteroids and dust particles.
The microbes living here were dramatically disrupted – and the future of life on Earth changed.
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Professor of Geochronology, Curtin University
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Professor of Geology, Adelaide University
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Professor of Palaeobiology, University of Leicester
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ARC Future Fellow and Associate Professor in Igneous Petrology/Volcanology, The University of Queensland
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Professor in Earth Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and Emeritus Professor of Mineral Physics, University of Cambridge
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Professor of Earthquake Science, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Geophysics, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Curtin University
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Professor of Planetary Geosciences, The Open University
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Senior Curator of Geosciences, Museums Victoria Research Institute; Monash University
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Professor in Earth & Climate Science, University of Southampton
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Harold T. Stearns Professor of Earth Science, Wesleyan University
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Adjunct professor, UNSW
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Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor Emeritus, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington