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The 'slow earthquakes' that we cannot feel may help protect against the devastating ones

How earthquake swarms arise

Nanolite 'snow' surrounding an iron oxide microlite 'Christmas tree'. Even these small 50 nm spheres are actually made up of even smaller nanolites aggregated into clumps. Christmas has come early this year for these researchers. Credit: Brooker/Griffiths/Heard/Cherns

Scientists shine light on tiny crystals behind unexpected violent eruptions

Life reconstruction of Euparkeria highlighting the body parts investigated in this study. Credit: Oliver Demuth

Modelling of ancient fossil movement reveals step in the evolution of...

Life reconstruction of the fossil bird Confuciusornis, one of the first beaked birds. Confuciusornis was roughly the size of a crow. It is known from hundreds of beautifully-preserved fossils, found in Early Cretaceous rocks from northeastern China. Credit: Gabriel Ugueto

Bird beak revealed by laser imaging informs early beak function and...

A bundle of giant sperm of the present-day ostracod crustacean Cyclocypris serena. Photo credit: R. Matzke-Karasz.

World’s Oldest Animal Sperm Trapped in Amber

Larger: A back-scattered electron image of a microscopic crystal of priscillagrewite-(Y) enclosed in fluorapatite. Inset: An optical image of the same crystal. Credit: American Mineralogist / Irina Galuskina et al.

Priscillagrewite : New mineral named in honor of renowned Nebraska geologist

Ostracod crustaceans were entrapped in this tiny piece of Cretaceous amber found in Myanmar.

The oldest known sperm cells

Saturn's icy

Process that might have led to first organic molecules

Central Alps of Switzerland

Formation of the Alps: Detaching and uplifting, not bulldozing

Summary of major extinction events through time, highlighting the new, Carnian Pluvial Episode at 233 million years ago. Credit: D. Bonadonna/ MUSE, Trento

Discovery of a new mass extinction

The dawn crested penguin Eudyptes atatu in New Zealand, three million years ago. Image by Simone Giovanardi. Permission for use of the image for a press release is granted by the artist. Credit: Massey University

Newly-described fossils reveal an ancient origin for New Zealand penguins

A rough diamond from Kankan, Guinea, that was analyzed in a new study led by a PhD student at the U of A. The imperfections inside the diamond are small inclusions of a mineral called ferropericlase, which is from the lower mantle. Credit: Anetta Banas

Uncovering new understanding of Earth’s carbon cycle

carbon cycle

Understanding Earth’s ‘deep-carbon cycle’

Eurypterid specimen image: Images of the eurypterid specimen fossil that led to Lamsdell’s discovery. Credit: Melanie Hopkins Photo

Coming up for air: Extinct sea scorpions could breathe out of...

Researchers collected and analyzed permafrost from four sites in the Yukon to develop a new technique to tease ancient DNA from soil, pulling the genomes of hundreds of extinct animals and thousands of plants from less than a gram of sediment. Credit: Tyler Murchie/ McMaster University

Thousands of species recorded in a speck of soil

A plume of ash and dust rises from Pavlof Volcano on the Alaskan Peninsula in 2013. Credit: NASA

Volcanic ash may have a bigger impact on the climate than...

Enhanced map of hematite (red) on Moon using a spheric projection (nearside only). Credit: Shuai Li

Has Earth’s oxygen rusted the Moon for billions of years?

Seismogram

Superheated rocks deep underground help explain earthquake patterns

Bezymianny is an active stratovolcano on the Kamchatka peninsula in eastern Russia. Credit: GFZ

Rebirth of a volcano : Evolution of Bezymianny volcano, Kamchatka after...

Location and geological map of Yukinoura district, Saikai City, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan. Credit: Professor Tadao Nishiyama

Japan’s geologic history in question after discovery of metamorphic rock microdiamonds

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