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Drill the seabed to find out the earthquake
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Drill the seabed to find out the earthquake

Scientists are preparing to drill down to the area of ​​frequent earthquakes in the Nankai Trough area off the coast of Japan in order to understand the source of seismi…

December 16, 2018
The Amazon River has changed the flow
Environment

The Amazon River has changed the flow

The Amazon River, the largest river in the world, once flowed from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean, opposite to the current flow. A recent study has found in sed…

December 16, 2018
The primitive oceans have very hot temperatures!
Environment

The primitive oceans have very hot temperatures!

According to a French study published in Nature that confirms a controversial hypothesis for 30 years: 2 to 3.5 billion years ago, the average temperature in the oceans…

December 16, 2018
Ayers - giant stone
Environment

Ayers - giant stone

The giant stone that lurks on the wild steppe of central Australia is a mountain, but there is only one rock. It is located south of the Macdonnell Mountains, 350 km eas…

December 16, 2018
Spectacular waves on the rocky mountains
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Spectacular waves on the rocky mountains

After more than 190 million years of formation, the sand dunes that turned into rocky mountains with persistent erosion of the wind formed countless soft curves like wav…

December 16, 2018
The biggest earthquakes in history
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The biggest earthquakes in history

On this day a year ago, the strong 9.0-magnitude earthquake rocked the northeastern coast of Japan, accompanied by a massive tsunami. Memorial round a year of double dis…

December 16, 2018
Beautiful scenes come to
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Beautiful scenes come to

The beauty of hybridism in Jiuzhaigou, the colorful rock mountains in Gansu, the terraced fields in Yunnan ... are the places that every player has dreamed of.

December 16, 2018
10 types of death stones in the blink of an eye
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10 types of death stones in the blink of an eye

There are more than 4000 minerals and ores found on the earth. Among them are mineral rocks that possess shapes, beautiful colors but hidden inside dangerous components…

December 16, 2018