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President-elect Donald J. Trump is a transformative figure in contemporary American politics. Despite being impeached twice, ...

Caltech researchers introduce a new seismic technology called distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) to study earthquakes and ...

Did you know that some minerals are so rare, they’ve only been discovered once? Surprised? Well, it’s true! Kyawthuite is one ...

Some 2,896 kilometers (1,800 miles) below the planet's crust, about halfway to the center of the Earth, two giant blobs can ...

A groundbreaking study reveals that North America and Europe might still be connected via tectonic plates, challenging the ...

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A single gemstone from Myanmar holds the title of Earth's rarest mineral, kyawthuite.

Caltech researchers have developed a new method to study Earth's structure deep beneath the surface, at the boundary between ...

Caltech researchers have developed a new method to study the earth's structure deep beneath the surface, at the boundary between Earth's brittle crust ...

Recent research from Curtin University has unveiled groundbreaking insights about the Ninetyeast Ridge — the longest straight ...