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Asteroid strike caused global firestorm that incinerated the dinosaurs

After the Chicxulub impact 66 million years ago, trillions of tonnes of rock vapour was launched into space before falling back to Earth at ballistic speeds, creating a global blast of heat strong enough to broil life on land

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A volcano has erupted remnants of Earth’s primordial magma ocean

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Huge crater in Australia may be the oldest impact structure on Earth

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Almost the whole of Japan moved eastward after 2011 earthquake

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Dinosaur-killing asteroid impact site stayed hot for millions of years

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A new tectonic plate boundary could be forming in southern Africa

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Physics

The 50-year quest to create a quantum spin liquid may finally be over

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Dinosaurs could survive in cold conditions, as illustrated by Beipiaosaurus, a feathered dinosaur that lived between 127 and 121 million years ago

Earth

Giant Arctic continent launched dinosaurs to world domination

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Huge hot blobs inside Earth may have made its magnetic field wonky

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Nepal and Northern India are not overdue for a huge earthquake

Many researchers thought that earthquakes in the Himalayas recur at regular intervals 鈥� but an analysis of sediment cores has shown they are largely random, and the region has seen far more than we previously realised

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The Whispers of Rock is a personal journey through aeons of geology

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The captivating story that Earth鈥檚 鈥榖oring鈥� layered rocks tell us

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Environment

We could get most metals for clean energy without opening new mines

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We’ve found that a new type of rock is forming from old slag heaps

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