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Inside the plan to create Earth's 'black box': Indestructible device will record the apocalypse

A bizarre structure dubbed 'Earth's Black Box' will be built in a remote Tasmanian airfield as a silent witness to humanity's ...
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Violent asteroid impacts may have helped spark life on early Earth

Long before oceans teemed with life, Earth endured relentless violence. Asteroids slammed into its surface again and again, ...
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National Science Foundation Should Create Next-Generation Earth Systems Science Initiative, New Report Says

WASHINGTON — To explore the complex interactions between the natural world and society and enhance our understanding of Earth’s systems — the atmosphere, hydrosphere, geosphere, cryosphere, biosphere, ...
Science Daily

Crushed, zapped, boiled, baked and more: Nature used 57 recipes to create Earth's 10,500-plus 'mineral kinds'

A 15-year study details the origins and diversity of every known mineral on Earth, a landmark body of work that will help reconstruct the history of life on Earth, guide the search for new minerals ...
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Earth was created much faster than we thought. This makes the chance of finding other habitable planets in the Universe more likely

When we walk around in our everyday life, we might not think of the Earth itself very often. But this planet is the foundation of our life. The air we breathe, the water we drink and the gravity that ...