The Magnetic North Pole is moving closer to Russia? Scientists puzzled
The magnetic North Pole is the direction that a compass needle points, and it is not a fixed location; it changes due to ...
RI isn't known for caves but they do exist. Where you can find some like Counterfeiters Den
The Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico, with their famous stalactites and stalagmites, or Mammoth Cave in Kentucky, the longest ...
FRED: 100,000 discovery sites recorded in world’s only open fossil database
Interestingly, New Zealand is the only nation with a fully cataloged, open-source database of its identified fossil specimens ...
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Beyond the point of no return: Why aren’t self-aborting nuclear weapons a thing?
Did you know that once a nuclear weapon is launched, there is currently no way to abort the mission? Find out why.
Massive Glaciers Once Covered Earth, Even the Equator, New Study Finds
Evidence from Colorado suggests glaciers once covered Earth to the equator, supporting the Snowball Earth theory. This ...
Second earthquake strikes Inland Empire
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 3.4 struck the Inland Empire around 8:17 p.m., the second time an earthquake ...
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Beyond Hurricane Season: Year-Round Earthquakes Near the U.S. Virgin Islands
“The [magnitude] 6.8 earthquake [on Nov. 10] near Cuba occurred near or within the Septentrional-Oriente Fault Zone ,” ...
Preliminary 3.5 magnitude earthquake hits Inland Empire
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 3.5 struck the Inland Empire on Saturday, which was felt by residents across a ...
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America discovers rocks with infinite energy: White in color and invisible for centuries
a country like the United States of America needs to find more of this source. Also known as white hydrogen, this infinite energy is trapped in underground geological formations, such as basalt rock.
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Dinosaur-era seafloor discovery could rewrite Earth's history
University of Maryland researchers have found intriguing new evidence of ancient seafloor deep beneath the Earth's surface.
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Meet FRED: The world's 1st-ever, nearly complete fossil database
The near-complete database reflects a spirit of trust and collaboration among the country’s scientific community — but will ...
Scientists find evidence that entirety of Earth was once covered in ice
Even the balmy tropics may have once been crushed by colossal masses of ice.