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Geology
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How an extraterrestrial collision melted Sahara sand 29 million years ago and ended up adorning Tutankhamun's pectoral.
Geology
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At 4,400 million years old, these tiny minerals from Australia proved that the planet hosted liquid water and solid crust much earlier than science believed.
Geology
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Extreme friction along geological faults generates temperatures exceeding 1,100 °C that melt bedrock in the blink of an eye.
Geology
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A tiny diamond from Brazil showed that hundreds of kilometers deep there is as much water as in all surface oceans combined.
Science and technology
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Discovered amid skepticism and ridicule, they broke two centuries of crystallographic laws by displaying symmetries believed impossible in nature.
Geology
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Two billion years ago, an underground deposit in Gabon operated as a nuclear power plant for hundreds of millennia without human intervention.
Geology
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A tiny diamond found in Brazil revealed that the planet's transition zone holds as much water trapped in its rocks as all surface oceans combined.
Science and technology
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How atomic structures that science considered mathematically and physically impossible transformed the physics of matter.
Science and technology
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The discovery of complex sugars in comets and meteorites suggests that the essential components for life may have arrived from the cosmos.