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Diamonds from the depths of the Earth contain minerals like never before
This mineral is the first example of high-pressure calcium silicate perovskite (CaSiO3) to be found on Earth.
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Space science
Detecting a young black hole right next to the galaxy containing the Earth
A newly discovered black hole lurks in the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way.
Oceanography
Not Amazon, Earth also has a larger lung in the ocean but few people know it
It turns out that the Earth is still breathing with larger lungs in the ocean, an ecosystem few of us know about: The seagrass fields.
Environment
How does a 0.5 degree Celsius difference affect the global future?
If the Earth warms by 2 degrees Celsius instead of 1.5 degrees Celsius, people, wildlife and ecosystems will all suffer severe consequences.
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Surprise about the first continent to 'pierce' the Earth's ocean
A new study has pushed back the time when the first continent appeared hundreds of millions of years back, with a very strange and mysterious way of rising out of the oc…
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The most silent room on Earth, people go 'going crazy' after 45 minutes
As you move through the room, you will hear the horrible grinding of bones. Eventually, you'll lose your balance by its eerie silence.
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An 'other world' lurking right inside the Earth
The place long thought to be a boring iron block deep inside the Earth could be a very complex world, research from the University of Hawaii (USA) asserts.
1001 mystery
Pyramids of Giza and 4 unsolved human mysteries
One of the original 7 wonders of the ancient world, the pyramids of Giza have been a fascination with humans for millennia.
1001 mystery
Mysterious jellyfish-shaped object flying into Earth's atmosphere worries many people
Perhaps we will never be able to fully understand the natural world, because strange and mysterious things keep happening.
1001 mystery
Mystery of the biggest explosion in history, is it a message from space?
The terrible Tunguska explosion flattened about 80 million trees on an area of 2,150 square kilometers, but no one knows where it originated.
1001 mystery
Mysterious explosion shakes the northeast of the US
Authorities are investigating the cause after many residents in New Hampshire, Massachusetts reported hearing a loud bang and feeling the shaking.
1001 mystery
Seismologists are helpless before the strange event: Every 26 seconds, the Earth 'beats' a beat
Since the early 60s, scientists have discovered strange beats. The mystery still exists until now without a satisfactory answer.
Conquer Mars
'Mars creature' is something that appeared on Earth in the 19th century?
Objects in NASA's early images of the surface of Mars - round structures thought to be lower organisms, others to be rocks - may be hydrohematite.
Conquer Mars
The unexpected reason why the planet 'better than Earth' is not habitable
A planet that had a wetter start than Earth - a good sign because water is what sustains life - but isn't viable just because... it's a bit small.
Conquer Mars
'Mysterious force' turns a planet into a second Earth
New research from the US shows that ancient Mars - the world thought to have been wetter than Earth - quickly and spectacularly possessed river valleys similar to ours.