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Far-Side Moon Rocks Challenge the Late Heavy Bombardment, Vindicating 50 Years of Dissent
19+ min ago (381+ words) Zhang's team analyzed 28 impact melt fragments — rocks liquefied by the heat of ancient asteroid strikes and later resolidified — and obtained reliable ages from 21 of them. The age range stretches from 4.33 billion to 1.13 billion years. After that early cluster, ages spread…...
Media-Alert: Low-level Flights to Image Geology over Eastern Kansas
28+ min ago (202+ words) RESTON, Va. – Low-level airplane flights will begin as soon as late July over eastern Kansas to image geology using airborne geophysical technology. The flights are a collaborative effort between the U.S. Geological Survey’s Earth Mapping Resources Initiative and the Kansas…...
Moderate mag. 4.2 earthquake - Banda Sea, 17 km north of Pulau Maopora Island, Maluku, Indonesia, on Tuesday, Jul 28, 2026, at 04:27 am (Jayapura time)
35+ min ago (35+ words) Detailed info, map, data, reports, updates about this earthquake: Moderate mag. 4.2 earthquake - Banda Sea, 17 km north of Pulau Maopora Island, Maluku, Indonesia, on Tuesday, Jul 28, 2026, at 04:27 am (Jayapura time) -...
Moderate mag. 4.5 earthquake - Philippine Sea, Japan, on Tuesday, Jul 28, 2026, at 04:03 am (GMT +9)
59+ min ago (27+ words) Detailed info, map, data, reports, updates about this earthquake: Moderate mag. 4.5 earthquake - Philippine Sea, Japan, on Tuesday, Jul 28, 2026, at 04:03 am (GMT +9) -...
Moderate mag. 4.0 earthquake - South OF Panama on Monday, Jul 27, 2026, at 11:06 am (GMT -6)
2+ hour, 56+ min ago (27+ words) Detailed info, map, data, reports, updates about this earthquake: Moderate mag. 4.0 earthquake - South OF Panama on Monday, Jul 27, 2026, at 11:06 am (GMT -6) -...
UK Backs Africa in Critical Minerals Governance
5+ day, 2+ hour ago (421+ words) Statement by Ambassador Kate Foster, UK Chargé d'Affaires to the UN, at the UN Security Council meeting on Natural Resources Governance. I will make three points. First, natural resources can be a force for peace, prosperity, and stability. But that…...
AI Model Boosts Soil Carbon Research Breakthroughs
1+ hour, 27+ min ago (230+ words) ITHACA, N.Y. – A new computer model from Cornell University researchers is one of the first artificial intelligence tools to advance scientific discovery in agriculture and biogeochemistry and is 50 times more efficient than its predecessors. In a paper published in the journal…...
Moderate magnitude 4.0 quake hits 10 km northeast of Quilpue, Chile around noon
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Moderate mag. 4.5 earthquake - 9 km SSE of Ashkāsham, Afghanistan, on Monday, Jul 27, 2026, at 10:17 pm (GMT +4:30)
2+ hour, 16+ min ago (32+ words) Detailed info, map, data, reports, updates about this earthquake: Moderate mag. 4.5 earthquake - 9 km SSE of Ashkāsham, Afghanistan, on Monday, Jul 27, 2026, at 10:17 pm (GMT +4:30) -...
Moderate mag. 4.1 earthquake - Valparaiso, Region de Valparaiso, 90 km northwest of Santiago, Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan, Chile, on Monday, Jul 27, 2026, at 01:19 pm (Santiago time)
2+ hour, 43+ min ago (37+ words) Detailed info, map, data, reports, updates about this earthquake: Moderate mag. 4.1 earthquake - Valparaiso, Region de Valparaiso, 90 km northwest of Santiago, Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan, Chile, on Monday, Jul 27, 2026, at 01:19 pm (Santiago time) -...