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YUCK: Early Earth Had Surprising Stench

Posted 04.30.2013 | Science
Read More: Ancient Earth Smell, Gunflintia Fossils, Early Earth Smell, Earth Science, Video, Microbes, Microbial Life, Microbe Fossils, Earth, Earth Smell, Geology, Heterotrophy, Bacteria, Fossils, Science News

By: Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience Senior Writer Published: 04/29/2013 03:13 PM EDT on LiveScience Kids like to taunt each other with the cry, "Las...

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Earth's Core WAY Hotter Than Scientists Thought

Posted 04.26.2013 | Science
Read More: Earth Core Temperature, Magnetic Field, Earth Science, Video, Daily Discovery, Earth's Inner Core, Earth's Core, Earth's Core Layers, Earth, Earth's Outer Core, Geology, Science News

By: Elizabeth Howell, OurAmazingPlanet Contributor Published: 04/25/2013 02:07 PM EDT on LiveScience Earth's internal engine is running about 1,00...

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Mysterious Blobs May Help Reveal Planets' Innards

Posted 12.15.2012 | Science
Read More: Earth, Earth Science, Video, Geology, Earth's Core, Earth Core Blobs, Science News

By: Charles Q. Choi, OurAmazingPlanet Contributor Published: 12/12/2012 01:27 PM EST on OurAmazingPlanet Metallic blobs that rise from Earth's cor...

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Global 'Hum' Helps Scientists Probe Planet's Core

Posted 11.23.2012 | Science
Read More: Earth Science, Seismic Noise, Earthquakes, Earth's Core, Earth Hum, Seismology, Earth, Geology, Earth's Mantle, Video, Science News

By: Charles Q. Choi, OurAmazingPlanet Contributor Published: 11/23/2012 10:40 AM EST on OurAmazingPlanet The global "hum" of the Earth i...

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Research Vessel Bores World's Deepest Hole

Posted 09.06.2012 | Science
Read More: Drilling, Earth, Earth Science, Mantle, Video, Deep-Sea Drilling, Geology, Chikyu, Science News

By: OurAmazingPlanet Staff Published: 09/06/2012 02:05 PM EDT on OurAmazingPlanet A Japanese drilling vessel has set a record by drilling more t...

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Brutal 'Extinction Event' Affected Earth For HOW Long?

Posted 05.29.2012 | Science
Read More: Earth Science, Video, Paleontology, Extinction, Great Dying, Earth, Dinosaurs, Geology, Extinction Event, Science News

By: Jennifer Welsh, LiveScience Staff Writer Published: 05/27/2012 11:24 PM EDT on LiveScience Whatever ultimately wiped more than 90 percent of...

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Geologists Gush Over Dramatic Undersea Event

Posted 05.14.2012 | Science
Read More: Earth Science, Video, Monowai, Monowai Volcano, Earth, Volcano Pulses, Volcanic Eruption, Geology, Volcano, Science News

By: Crystal Gammon , OurAmazingPlanet Contributor Published: 05/13/2012 01:02 PM EDT on OurAmazingPlanet When the crew aboard the research vesse...

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Sinking Of Titanic Tied To Rare Lunar Event

Posted 03.07.2012 | Science
Read More: Earth Science, Video, Moon Titanic, Titanic, Tides, Icebergs, Ocean Tides, Tides Titanic, Seismology, Slidepollajax, Supermoon, Science News

By: Natalie Wolchover Published: 03/06/2012 01:34 PM EST on Lifes Little Mysteries An extremely rare lunar event on the night of Jan. 4, 1912, m...

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Study Offers Surprising New Twist On Story Of Earth's Origins

Posted 03.02.2012 | Science
Read More: Meteorite, Earth Science, Planetary Science, Earth Made of Meteorites, Space, Solar System, Earth, Meteorites Collide, Video, Science News

By: Clara Moskowitz Published: 03/01/2012 02:31 PM EST on SPACE.com Earth's building blocks were more eclectic than once thought, according to ...

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Solar Storm Study Spotlights Risk Of Catastrophe

Posted 03.01.2012 | Science
Read More: Carrington Event, Earth Science, Solar Storm, Aurora Borealis, Video, Space, Magnetosphere, Solar Flare, Sun, Aurora, Coronal Mass Ejection, Science News

An aurora borealis may be beautiful, but can there be too much of a good thing? A new study published in the journal Space Weather analyzed the freque...

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Life at the SETI Institute: Darlene Lim -- Exploring the Watery Depths of Limnology

SETI Institute | Posted 05.25.2011 | Technology
Read More: Exploration, SETI Institute, Earth Science, Nasa, Microbialites, Astrobiology, Geobiology, Limnology, Space Science, Science, Mars Analog, Lakes, Pavilion Lake Research Project, Technology News
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By Gail Jacobs Dr. Darlene Lim is a geobiologist and limnologist at the Carl Sagan Center for the Study of Life in the Universe, SETI Institute. Her ...

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MILKY WAY ART: The New Yorker On The Best NASA Photographs Of 2010

newyorker.com | Posted by Caroline Hirsch | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
Read More: NASA Photographs, Photography, Earth Science, Stars, Photographs, Nasa, NASA Photos, Outerspace, Hubble Space Telescope, Space Telescope Science Institute, Space-Observatory, Scientific Art, Arts News

As a science geek married to someone who attended both Space Camp and Space Academy (and who introduced me to the wonders of astronaut ice cream), it ...

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NASA To Receive Billions To Study Earth, Climate Change

NPR | Jon Hamilton | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Nasa Budget, Earth Science, Nasa Space, Obama Administration Nasa, Nasa, Climate Change, Grace Satellite, NASA Climate Change, NASA Earth, Green News

The Obama administration has proposed a budget for NASA that includes billions of dollars for satellites and other tools to help scientists investigat...

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