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Scientists Track Down Fresh Boulder Falls on the Moon

by Unnati Ashar 27 August 202527 August 2025

By poring over thousands of satellite images, researchers geolocated 245 fresh boulder tracks, revealing signs of seismic activity or impact events within the last half-million years.

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Nitrogen Needs Could Be Limiting Nature’s Carbon Capacity

by Rebecca Owen 25 August 202525 September 2025

A new study suggests that past calculations of biological nitrogen fixation were overestimated by up to 66%—and that farms growing nitrogen-fixing crops may be filling in the gaps, for better or worse.

A map of estimated degree of damage (black to yellow) in settlements across the zone affected by the 2025 Myanmar earthquake
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Video Shows Pulsing and Curving Fault Behavior

by Veronika Meduna 21 August 202521 August 2025

A chance video captured a fault rupture during March’s devastating Myanmar earthquake, delivering real-time evidence of how major seismic tremors propagate.

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Infrared Instruments Could Spot Exotic Ice on Other Worlds

by Matthew R. Francis 19 August 202519 August 2025

Phases of ice that exist naturally only on frozen moons could be detected using infrared spectroscopy, according to new laboratory experiments.

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El queso en tiempos de la agricultura industrial y el cambio climático

Katherine Kornei, Science Writer by Katherine Kornei 19 August 202519 August 2025

Los pastizales y la dieta de las vacas están cambiando a medida que se calienta el clima, pero un experimento agrícola en Francia revela la importancia de proporcionar pastos a las vacas.

A model shows yellow mantle plumes rising from big, red lower-mantle basal structures.
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Blame It on the BLOBs

by Bill Morris 15 August 202514 August 2025

For decades, scientists have suspected that large volcanic eruptions have their origins in two mysterious massive regions at the base of our planet’s mantle. Now, it’s been statistically proven.

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Parts of New Orleans Are Sinking

by Skyler Ware 14 August 202514 August 2025

Areas near the airport, along floodwalls, and in nearby wetlands are subsiding because of a combination of natural and anthropogenic forces.

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Arctic Ice Shelf Theory Challenged by Ancient Algae

by Andrew Chapman 13 August 202513 August 2025

Chemical signatures of marine organisms reveal that seasonal sea ice, not a massive ice shelf, persisted in the southern Arctic Ocean for 750,000 years.

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Residents Know When Floods Happen, But Data Must Catch Up

by Grace van Deelen 12 August 202512 August 2025

Federal flood measurements often don’t match what people see in their communities. Scientists have created a hyperlocal solution.

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Coral Cores Pinpoint Onset of Industrial Deforestation

by Grace van Deelen 7 August 20257 August 2025

Trace elements in coral reefs provide a timeline of how Borneo’s rainforests have been altered by industry.

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