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The Secrets of How Life Began May Be Hidden Inside the World’s Oldest RocksSmithsonian researchers trekked to a remote site in northern Canada to collect four-billion-year-old rock samples that could ...
NASA's Perseverance rover has discovered a haunting rock formation on Mars that looks unsettlingly like a skull. Dubbed "Skull Hill," the jet-black outcrop is so bizarre and out of place that even ...
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Scientists think a hidden source of clean energy could power Earth for 170,000 years — and they've figured out the 'recipe' to find itResearchers have compiled a list of "ingredients" that could help resource exploration companies locate huge reservoirs of ...
Lanzarote’s volcanoes have inspired locals to make everything from art to wine. A tour of the island reveals the landscape’s ...
The end of Permian mass extinction occurred 251.9 million years ago, marking the close of a geological period known as ...
'Out of Nowhere': NASA’s Perseverance Rover Discovers ‘Skull Hill,’ a Strange Martian Rock Formation
Deahn explains that the rock could be what geologists refer to as “float” — material transported from its original location by processes ... igneous rocks — often rich in iron and magnesium — contain ...
Nearby, the rover examined an outcrop containing igneous minerals thought to originate deep in Mars’ crust. Although this rock proved too brittle for successful coring, its composition hints at ...
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