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Lucas Joel

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Lucas Joel writes to explore the connection between nature and humans.

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Afghanistan’s Blob Hunters

Lucas Joel by L. Joel 3 June 201919 October 2021

How a first-of-its-kind team of Afghan scientists and engineers helped make a monolithic discovery.

Black-and-white aerial photo of an atomic bomb cloud
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Hiroshima Bomb Created Asteroid Impact–Like Glass

Lucas Joel by L. Joel 28 May 20199 May 2022

The glass rained from the sky as the bomb annihilated the Japanese city.

Rocks of the Saglek Block in Labrador
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When Water Met Rock

Lucas Joel by L. Joel 17 May 201920 June 2024

Geologists discover rocks bearing the earliest known evidence of water interacting with rock on Earth’s surface.

A team of Afghan and U.S. scientists install a continuous GPS instrument
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The Blob Causing Earthquakes

Lucas Joel by L. Joel 10 May 201919 October 2021

Geophysicists discover that a “blob” of rock sinking into the mantle is the force triggering earthquakes in the Hindu Kush.

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The Search for the Severed Head of the Himalayas

Lucas Joel by L. Joel 25 April 20198 August 2023

To unearth the very first sediments to erode from the Himalayas, a team of scientists drilled beneath the Bay of Bengal.

Artist’s depiction of a newly forming solar system, which preserves conditions of its birth in isotopes and their ratios for billions of years
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Isotope Geochemists Glimpse Earth’s Impenetrable Interior

Lucas Joel by L. Joel 1 March 20195 January 2022

Painstaking measurements of isotopes and their relative abundance in rocks have illuminated the hidden inner Earth and our planet’s origins and shadowy past for much of the preceding century.

The amphitheater of the ancient Roman city of Aventicum, in the Swiss town of Avenches
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Ancient Romans Polluted Their Lakes Just Like We Do Today

Lucas Joel by L. Joel 28 November 20182 November 2021

Sediments from a lake in Switzerland reveal that ancient Romans triggered dead zones caused by the runoff of nutrients. Sound familiar?

A fossil ichthyosaur, a predator that emerged in the aftermath of the Permian-Triassic mass extinction.
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How Did Life Recover After Earth’s Worst-Ever Mass Extinction?

Lucas Joel by L. Joel 1 November 201829 September 2022

Ocean animals at the top of the food chain recovered first after a cataclysm at the end of the Permian period. The extinction was triggered by events resembling the changes brewing in today’s oceans.

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How Well Can the Webb Telescope Detect Signs of Exoplanet Life?

Lucas Joel by L. Joel 24 September 20189 November 2021

Recent research suggests that NASA’s next-generation space telescope will be good—but not the best—at finding life-sustaining levels of oxygen in an exoplanet’s atmosphere.

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How Did Life Learn to Breathe?

Lucas Joel by L. Joel 17 September 201829 September 2022

Scientists unravel the conditions under which life evolved to breathe oxygen—and the findings have some stellar implications.

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