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Watch the last billion years of Earth's tectonic plate movement in just 40 seconds
Geologists modeled the last billion years of Earth's tectonic plate evolution in unprecedented deta…
Aylin Woodward
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Venus has Earth-like plate tectonics, indicating possibility of hosting life once
Venus, known as a scorching wasteland of a planet, may have once had tectonic plate movements simil…
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A discovery about the movement of tectonic plates will have scientists rewriting textbooks
The sections, known as plates, move at a rate of about 2 to 5 centimeters per year, which is a simi…
Lindsay Dodgson
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Turns out Australia isn't where you think it is
The next adjustment is due at the end of the year and will be about 1.5 meters, which is not quite …
Lindsay Dodgson
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Animated map of how Earth will look in 250 million years
According to plate tectonics theory, Earth's outer shell is divided into multiple plates that slowl…
Gene Kim,Jessica Orwig
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Scientists Unravel One Of The Keys To Life On Earth - And It's Right Beneath Your Feet
Using a set of laws to to describe how grains evolve and "many many pages of physics," Bercovici an…
Leslie Baehr
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Earth tipped over on its side 84 million years ago and then righted itself, new study finds
About 84 million years ago, Earth's crust and the mantle below it rotated around the planet's inner…
Aylin Woodward
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It's only a matter of time before Haiti experiences yet another major earthquake, seismologists say - here's why
Two major earthquakes have struck Haiti within 11 years. More are inevitable, seismologists say, be…
Aylin Woodward
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Tectonic plates that are causing the Himalayas to grow may also be splitting Tibet in two, study suggests
The Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates' collision is growing the Himalayan mountains, but scientis…
Kelsey Vlamis,Morgan McFall-J…
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We may be overlooking a critical factor in our quest to find alien life
A popular idea about Earth-size rocky planets is that, within about 200 million years, the mantle -…
Dave Mosher
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New maps reveal details about the size and shape of Earth's lost 8th continent, Zealandia, which disappeared under the Pacific Ocean
For the first time, scientists have mapped Zealandia's shape, the surrounding ocean floor, and the …
Aylin Woodward
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A new interactive map lets you track where your city or town was located on Earth 750 million years ago
A computer scientist's map lets you go back in time to see how chunks of land have moved and change…
Susie Neilson
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These 3-billion-year-old crystals deep inside an underwater volcano could be from an ancient continent
"Our findings tell us that rifting and break-up of continental entities, driven by plate tectonic p…
Lindsay Dodgson
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A fragment of a mysterious 8th continent is hiding under New Zealand - and it's twice as old as scientists thought
Recent research suggests chunks of Zealandia, an eighth continent that disappeared under the Pacifi…
Aylin Woodward
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GARTMAN: We Are Exiting All Bullish Positions And Rushing To The Sidelines
"Where we were buyers of equities previously we must disdain them henceforth. Where we were sellers…
Mamta Badkar
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The entire continent of Australia has shifted - and it's causing problems for GPS systems
How did this happen? Tectonic shifts are the reason. The Australian tectonic plate is the fastest m…
Simone M Scully
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Mexico is in the worst possible place for earthquakes - here's why it keeps getting hit
Much of Mexico City is built on a former lakebed, where soft soil has been found to intensify the e…
Erin Brodwin
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A 60-million-year old mystery about a massive missing chunk of the Asian and Eurasian continents has been solved
"We really have significant amounts of crust that have disappeared from the crustal reservoir, and …
Lindsay Dodgson
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MONETARY TECTONICS: Here Are 50 Slides Detailing The War Between Inflation And Deflation
"The unintended consequences of these monetary interventions will result in increasing volatility, …
Steven Perlberg
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NASA's InSight lander may not be as sexy as a Mars rover, but here's why the mission matters for Earthlings
"All of our past missions have really been surface missions that have characterized the surface, th…