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Mysterious lava puddles in Earth's mantle may hold clues about the origin of life: 'These are not random oddities'

Two mysterious blobs deep inside Earth may hold clues about the origin of life on our planet, new research finds. Deep ...
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China Just Started Drilling 11 KM Hole Into Earth’s Crust: What They’re Looking for Is Anything but Ordinary

In the heart of China’s Taklimakan Desert, a remote stretch of arid land in Xinjiang, an ultra-deep borehole is descending ...
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Giant hidden heat blob slowly travels beneath the U.S.

An immense pocket of hot rock deep beneath the Appalachians may be a wandering relic of the breakup between Greenland and ...

The Totally Insane, Highly Improbable, But Not At All Impossible Quest to Build a Warp Drive

In 1999, Belgian physicist Chris Van Den Broeck implemented a minor alteration to Alcubierre’s concept by shrinking the ...
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The Earth Has a Secret Past—Here’s What Scientists Discovered Deep Inside the Planet’s Mantle

Deep within Earth’s mantle, scientists have uncovered surprising evidence that traces of the planet’s early form,proto-Earth, ...

To Escape Extinction, We Need to Achieve Warp Speed. New Scientific Breakthroughs Suggest It’s Possible.

A Star Trek–inspired idea by Miguel Alcubierre kicked off decades of theory and experiments as scientists pursue plausible ...