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Geology
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Two gigantic continent-sized rocky anomalies lie atop the outer core, and science suggests they are remnants of the protoplanet that formed the Moon.
Nature
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The only known insect capable of losing 97% of its water and reviving after enduring lethal radiation and extreme temperatures
Engineering
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To prevent groundwater from mixing with radioactive debris, geotechnical engineering froze the subsoil to create an impermeable barrier of rock and ice.
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.
Engineering
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In the heart of Siberia, the widest railway track on Earth carries eight-thousand-ton mobile pools to overcome a one-hundred-meter-high dam.
Geology
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How a rock block of thousands of square kilometers moved at highway speeds over a nearly flat slope.
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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The deepest hole in history revealed that theoretical models of the Earth's crust were completely wrong.
Engineering
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At the end of the 19th century, engineers defied continental topography to divert waste and save the city from deadly epidemics.
Geology
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Eight hundred meters below the Atlantic, an unusual chemical reaction between the ocean and Earth's mantle raises sixty-meter monoliths.
Geology
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How slow geochemical crystallization sculpted gigantic three-meter orbs in Paleocene mud long before being unearthed by the waves.
Geology
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The colossal block of oceanic crust and deep rock that rode over a continent instead of sinking into the abyss