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2+ hour, 14+ min ago  (706+ words) Nearly 3,000 kilometers beneath Earth's surface, the outer core is a slowly churning ocean of molten iron and nickel. The process of heat escaping the core and entering the shallower mantle is known as the "geodynamo" and generates Earth's magnetic field....

3+ hour, 18+ min ago  (1066+ words) A Science study using 300,000 fossils finds east-west coastlines trapped species at one latitude, raising extinctions over 540 million years. (CREDIT: Science) Coastlines can look like simple lines on a map. Over Earth's history, they acted more like gates and traps. A…...

3+ hour, 25+ min ago  (855+ words) Many types of body modification date back hundreds or thousands of years, revealing our ancient ancestors were not that different from us. Just as there are many reasons for modifying one's body nowadays, there were likely many drivers in the…...

3+ hour, 53+ min ago  (205+ words) The tiny bots follow patterns of light and "artificial space-time," navigating like craft following the curved space around a black hole. Researchers have developed a method for steering microscopic swimming robots using light patterns and the principles of Einstein's theory…...

3+ hour, 54+ min ago  (928+ words) Woke this morning covered in oil. The sheets above and below me, cotton blended with polyester, are spun from oil. The elastic in their fitted corners is derived from it. The mattress foam springs from it. Stepped on bathroom mat…...

7+ hour, 19+ min ago  (173+ words) In geological layers around the world (particularly in the southwestern U.S.) roughly one billion years of rock are missing'a mystery known as the "Great Unconformity." Scientists have theorized that the Great Unconformity was caused by the planet's "Snowball Earth" phase or…...

8+ hour, 25+ min ago  (1922+ words) Carlos Araque, CEO of Quaise Energy, gives an overview of the new frontier of geothermal. Despite its ability to deliver ample carbon-free energy, the potential of geothermal " both conventional and enhanced " is limited by the number of drilling sites close…...

10+ hour, 24+ min ago  (423+ words) A China-funded national mineral resource survey has revealed significant new mineral deposits in Liberia, offering fresh opportunities for economic growth and investment. The survey, the largest in more than 50 years identified lithium, neodymium, silver, nickel, zinc, uranium, and cobalt, which…...

10+ hour, 48+ min ago  (1337+ words) An end-member solution at high viscosity is the quasi-static case, where the advective term in equation (3) can be neglected. Conductive cooling of the IC is then described by Substituting the perturbation expansion into equation (4) gives a leading-order equation for T0 : The…...

12+ hour, 20+ min ago  (435+ words) A Senate resolution introduced by Popular Democratic Party Sen. Jos" Dalmau-Santiago would direct a legislative committee to support efforts by Puerto Rico and federal officials to secure funding aimed at mitigating the growing impacts of coastal erosion across the island....