A transmitted light view through a 200-micron section of a peridotite sample, showing the three main minerals - olivine (clear-green), orthopyroxene (grey-green) and garnet (pink). Credit: Dr Emma Tomlinson, Trinity College Dublin.

A new, clearer insight into Earth’s hidden crystals

1.2 million year old mammoth tooth from the Krestovka mammoth. Credit: Pavel Nikolskiy

World’s oldest DNA reveals how mammoths evolved

Swamp Skink (Lissolepis coventryi), which is probably the living lizard most similar to the new fossil. Photo: Dr Mark Hutchinson, SA Museum / Flinders University, a co-author. Credit: Dr Mark Hutchinson, SA Museum / Flinders University

Proegernia mikebulli : New Australian fossil lizard

Matthew Siegfried inspects a GPS device, powered by a solar panel at Whillans Ice Plain. Credit: Grace Barcheck/Cornell University

Slow motion precursors give earthquakes the fast slip

The Middle America Trench, seen here as a dark blue strip off the Pacific coast of Central America, is a surface feature of a subduction zone extending from Mexico to Costa Rica. Credit: NOAA

Subduction may recycle less water than thought

An overview of tsunami prediction with AI Credit: Tohoku University, University of Tokyo, and Fujitsu Laboratories

Fujitsu leverages world’s fastest supercomputer and AI to predict tsunami flooding

Comet

The comet that killed the dinosaurs

mosasaurs

The songs of fin whales offer new avenue for seismic studies...

Photos of Nubian Levallois cores associated with Neanderthal fossils. Credit © UCL, Institute of Archaeology & courtesy of the Penn Museum, University of Pennsylvania

Neanderthals and Homo sapiens used identical Nubian technology

The colorful banded Tepees are part of the Blue Mesa Member, a geological feature about 220 million to 225 million years old in the Chinle Formation in Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona. Credit: NPS

How rocks rusted on Earth and turned red

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