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Scientists drill longest-ever piece of Earth's mantle from underwater mountain near 'Lost City'Scientists just pulled the longest hunk of Earth's mantle from beneath the ocean.
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Sapphires form inside the fiery hearts of volcanoes, not deep in the mantle like we thoughtA new study of sapphires found in volcanic fields in Germany reveals that these beautiful blue stones form where magma and rocks from Earth's crust mix.
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'Simone is a very, very rare bird': Experts discuss the science behind Simone Biles' gymnastic prowessEven among the world's most elite gymnasts, American Simone Biles, now competing in her third Olympic Games, is a standout.
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7 scary diseases you can get from the waterMany deadly infections are transmitted via water, including cholera, typhoid and brain-eating amoebas.
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'Brain-eating' amoebas kill nearly 100% of victims. Could new treatments change that?Feature Doctors are pulling out new techniques and drugs in an effort to cure devastating brain infections.
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'Failed' microcontinent found hiding beneath Greenland and CanadaThe Davis Strait, west of Greenland, holds a long-lost chunk of an almost-continent that didn't quite form about 58 million years ago.
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Gaia spacecraft almost doomed by back-to-back meteor strike and solar storm — but ESA says they've found a solutionThe European Space Agency's Gaia spacecraft is back to routine operations studying the Milky Way after a meteor strike punctured its protective shield, allowing charged solar particles to stream through.
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'ChatGPT moment for biology': Ex-Meta scientists develop AI model that creates proteins 'not found in nature'The ESM3 model can 'write' new proteins from scratch, opening up new possibilities for synthetic biology.
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Magic mushrooms temporarily 'dissolve' brain network responsible for sense of selfPsilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, reduces the synchronicity within a brain network responsible for reflection and the sense of self.
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Earth's plate tectonics fired up hundreds of millions of years earlier than we thought, ancient crystals revealNew research hints that plate tectonics began earlier than 4 billion years ago — not long after Earth had formed.
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LA may be spared 'horrifying' fate of the 'Big One' from San Andreas, simulation suggestsA new simulation of the shaking from a magnitude 7.8 south San Andreas earthquake suggests that Los Angeles might avoid a worst-case scenario.
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All El Niños will be extreme if climate change isn't slowed, study suggestsIn a warmer world, every El Niño could look like today's most extreme events.
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Near-indestructible moss can survive gamma rays and liquid nitrogenThis little moss withstands deadly blasts of radiation, extreme cold and dehydration — and could probably survive on Mars.
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Predator or prey? This 'switch' in the brain toggles when you're hunting or being huntedThe hypothalamus, a brain region that helps control our hormones and sleep cycles, is also responsible for our ability to switch between predator- and prey-like behavior.
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Boiling rocks from Earth's crust tore an ocean into Mongolia 410 million years agoAn ocean that opened up in what is now Mongolia 410 million years ago was created by a hot upwelling of rock known as a mantle plume.
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50 interesting facts about EarthReference We've collected some of the most interesting and amazing facts about Earth
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14 of the deadliest natural disasters in historyReference The world's deadliest natural disasters span more than 2,500 years of human history and include earthquakes, tsunamis and cyclones.
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New RSV shots tied to rare nervous system disorder — should you worry?There's been some reports of Guillain-Barré syndrome in older adults who got the vaccines. But health officials still recommend that this population get the shots, in consultation with their doctors.
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Enormous deposit of rare earth elements discovered in heart of ancient Norwegian volcanoThe Fen Carbonatite Complex may be Europe's key to a secure rare-earth-element supply chain following the discovery of a huge deposit at the site.
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'The difference between alarming and catastrophic': Cascadia megafault has 1 especially deadly section, new map revealsThe Cascadia subduction zone is more complex than researchers previously knew. The new finding could help scientists better understand the risk from future earthquakes.
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Rare-earth elements could be hidden inside coal minesRare earth elements are necessary for modern technology, including green energy, but they only come from a few sources around the globe. New research has discovered them hiding in coal mines in the U.S.
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'Increased evidence that we should be alert': H5N1 bird flu is adapting to mammals in 'new ways'New research in marine mammals suggests the virus is increasingly adapting to mammalian hosts.
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STEVE — the bizarre purple ribbon in the sky — has a 'secret twin' that appears only before dawn, study findsAn atmospheric phenomenon known as STEVE has a secret twin that appears before the break of dawn and flows in the opposite direction, new research finds.
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Newfound autoimmune syndrome tied to COVID-19 can trigger deadly lung scarringA surge in cases of a rare autoimmune disease during COVID-19 waves in England led to the discovery of a new syndrome.
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