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geology

Starry Night painting

Technology

New blues: The quest to make the world’s rarest colour

Natural blue pigments to colour paints, inks and plastics are so hard to find that people will go to the depths of Earth to discover new ones

Features

Danakil depression

Earth

Scorching hot springs house extreme life and a future ocean

Regulars

Dan McKenzie

Earth

Dan McKenzie: The man who made Earth move

Features

Enceladus’s hot, gritty core may cook up ingredients for life

Space

Enceladus’s hot, gritty core may cook up ingredients for life

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The latest science reads remind us why we really do need experts

Earth

The latest science reads remind us why we really do need experts

Culture

eruption

Earth

Cataclysms: A life spent chasing planetary catastrophe

Culture

The dwarf planet Eris

Space

Volcanoes that spew stretchy ice could make dwarf planets bright

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globe

Earth

The next supercontinent: Four ways Earth could reshape itself

Features

People run in the streets after a powerful earthquake jolted Mexico City on 19 September

Earth

Mexico City quake: A few seconds' warning can still save lives

Analysis

Huge space rocks could have helped start Earth’s plate tectonics

Earth

Huge space rocks could have helped start Earth’s plate tectonics

Nobody knows how or why plate tectonics got started on Earth. But new evidence suggest collisions with space rocks millions of years ago may have something to do with it

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Earth

There is no way to spot big earthquakes ahead of time

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Earth

Could we store carbon dioxide as liquid lakes under the sea?

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Earth

Fear and trembling, from The Great Quake to Quakeland

Culture

Earth

Mysterious lights in the sky seen after Mexico’s huge earthquake

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