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Physicists led by the University of Iowa have documented in the finest detail to date how energy from the sun interacts with ...

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The sun may rise every morning, but the amount of sunlight reaching Earth's surface can substantially vary over decades, according to a perspective article led by an international research team. The ...

Researchers propose that tiny mineral nanoparticles may have been the hidden engines that transformed Earth’s early chemistry ...

Pillars of hot rock appear to connect continental-size moving blobs at the bottom of Earth's mantle to giant volcanic eruptions at its surface. But what fuels a giant eruption, and how does it make ...

Human extraction of groundwater is not just drying aquifers but quietly altering Earth’s rotation, with implications for ...

In the tantalizing quest to find extraterrestrial life beyond our own solar system, or at least beyond Earth, we often forget the myriad ways in which life has evolved within our own planet’s deep ...

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Thick crust and wet lava around the Azores volcanoes may trace to ancient seawater stored 400 miles down and tapped by a ...