Earth Sciences - You Gotta Be Freakin' Kidding Me (Page 2)

by Tectonics

on Aug 20

A Cooler Earth Core Could Answer 3.5-Billion-Year-Old Magnetic Question

For most of Earth's history, nothing explained how it powered its own compass before the solid core existed. A lab technique suggests the source was hiding in a bad temperature estimate.

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by Tectonics

on Aug 11

Japan's Underwater Supervolcano Is Reloading

A supervolcano that blew 7,300 years ago is reloading with fresh magma from below. What it's building toward, no one can say yet.

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by Tectonics

on Aug 07

Yellowstone's Supervolcano Has Stranger Plumbing Than We Thought

Decades of textbook explanation, overturned by a 3D model of rock flow miles beneath the American West.

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by Groundwater

on Aug 05

2.64 Billion Years in the Dark, and It Tastes Like Regret

Sealed in rock since before animals existed, it might still have something living inside it. Someone got close enough to get splashed, which is how we know it's unpleasant to the tongue.

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by Groundwater

on Aug 04

The North Sea Crater That Lost the Vote

The proof sat in a cardboard box of oil-well cuttings for decades. Two grains of shocked crystal. The asteroid had always been winning the argument.

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by Tectonics

on Jul 30

Underwater Volcano Coughed Up 4.5-Billion-Year-Old Magma

Mayotte's newborn volcano erupted a chemical echo of Earth's molten infancy.

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by Deep Time

on Jul 28

One Bag of Cheetos Nearly Broke a Cave That Took Millions of Years to Build

A cave that survived millions of years of geological time met its match in a dropped snack bag. What does it take to break an ecosystem this old?

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by Groundwater

on Jul 21

Alaska's Rivers Are Turning Orange, and the Ground Itself Is to Blame

Alaska's rivers aren't being polluted from outside. The ground is thawing open, and centuries of frozen chemistry are waking up. What happens next is unwritten.

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by Out of Bounds

on Jul 16

When It Rains, It Bites

What do a warmer atmosphere, a heavy rainstorm, and a bull shark near shore have in common? More than anyone swimming at dusk wants to know.

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by Deep Time

on Jul 09

An Earthquake's Echo Moved an Entire Country

A 15-year-old ghost signal in Japan's earthquake data finally has an answer and it leads straight to the center of the Earth.

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by Groundwater

on Jul 08

The Lake Was Passing Gas. It Took 90 Years to Prove.

A sonar survey hunting for shipwrecks found 140 craters on the lakebed and finally confirmed what one geologist figured out in 1934.

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by Tectonics

on Jul 07

Utah's 1979 Earthquake Broke a Geological Rule

A quake that stumped seismologists for 47 years has been confirmed as a rare continental mantle earthquake, which wasn't supposed to be possible.

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by Groundwater

on Jul 06

Water's Double Life Has New Details

In April, X-rays confirmed water behaves like two different liquids. A new study explains what's actually different between them.

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by Deep Time

on Jul 03

We Moved the Planet. Slightly. With Irrigation.

Researchers needed 2,150 gigatons of missing groundwater to make their models match reality. What they found when they added it in was the planet itself, quietly keeping score.

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by Groundwater

on Jun 30

Antarctica's Most Active Volcano Has Been Scattering Gold Across the Ice Since 1972

A continuously erupting Antarctic volcano emits crystallized gold particles daily, and has been since 1972. How does frigid air turn a lava lake into a gold mint?

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by Groundwater

on Jun 29

Pollution Particles Warm the Atmosphere for 48 Hours Before They Cool It

Climate models had the long-term answer right. They were missing everything that happens in the first 48 hours.

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by Corpus

on Jun 25

Our Ancestors Were Apparently Fine With Freezing

The jungle origin story for primates was wrong. Their actual birthplace was cold, seasonal North America — and the survival strategy may still live in us.

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by Groundwater

on Jun 24

The Ground Beneath Thawing Permafrost Is Consuming CO2

As permafrost thaws, something unexpected kicks in: the rock itself starts pulling CO2 back down. What happens when geology fights biology for control of the carbon cycle?

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A Cooler Earth Core Could Answer 3.5-Billion-Year-Old Magnetic Question

Japan's Underwater Supervolcano Is Reloading

Yellowstone's Supervolcano Has Stranger Plumbing Than We Thought

2.64 Billion Years in the Dark, and It Tastes Like Regret

The North Sea Crater That Lost the Vote

Underwater Volcano Coughed Up 4.5-Billion-Year-Old Magma

One Bag of Cheetos Nearly Broke a Cave That Took Millions of Years to Build

Alaska's Rivers Are Turning Orange, and the Ground Itself Is to Blame

When It Rains, It Bites

An Earthquake's Echo Moved an Entire Country

The Lake Was Passing Gas. It Took 90 Years to Prove.

Utah's 1979 Earthquake Broke a Geological Rule

Water's Double Life Has New Details

We Moved the Planet. Slightly. With Irrigation.

Antarctica's Most Active Volcano Has Been Scattering Gold Across the Ice Since 1972

Pollution Particles Warm the Atmosphere for 48 Hours Before They Cool It

Our Ancestors Were Apparently Fine With Freezing

The Ground Beneath Thawing Permafrost Is Consuming CO2

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