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Why Texas Hill Country, where a devastating flood killed more than 120 people, is one of the deadliest places in the US for flash flooding
A hydrologist explains why the region is known as Flash Flood Alley and how its geography and geology can lead to heavy ...
A Denver dino museum makes a find deep under own parking lot. Like 'a hole in one from the moon.'
A dinosaur fossil has been found in an unlikely way in an unlikely place, a hole drilled under the parking lot of a Colorado ...
Dune patterns in California desert hold clues that help researchers map Mars’ shifting sands
Aeolian bedforms are common on Earth and across the solar system, including on Mars, Venus, Pluto, the Saturn moon Titan, the Neptune moon Triton, and Comet 67P. These geological features, among the ...
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The Scopes ‘Monkey Trial’: 100 years later
One hundred years ago, on July 10, 1925, the trial of John T. Scopes began.
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Martian Mounds Unlock Billions of Years of Water and Geology, Guiding the Next Era of Red Planet Exploration
What if the solution to one of Mars’ most ancient secrets lay in plain sight spread out over a Texas-sized region of the planet’s floor? In Chryse Planitia, over 15,000 mysterious mounds stand in the ...