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A subduction zone breaking apart was caught in real time, showing how Earth’s tectonic plates die, detach, and reshape the ...

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When we talk about feats of engineering, very few megastructures on Earth rival the sheer scale of China's Three Gorges Dam. It's located in Hubei province, spanning the mighty Yangtze River, and it's ...

Researchers including those from the University of Tokyo build on past studies and introduce new methods to explore the nature and role of subsurface fluids including water in the instances and ...

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The findings suggest Earth’s geological story was partly written in the stars – specifically, in the spiral arms of our home ...

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With unprecedented clarity, scientists have directly observed a subduction zone—the collision point where one tectonic plate ...

Material deep inside Earth — thousands of kilometres down, near the planet’s core — has undergone a mysterious shift. Is Earth’s core leaking? Volcanic rocks provide strongest evidence yet Although ...