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There’s a Place in Ethiopia With Neon Acid Springs and Salt Flats Below Sea Level That Scientists Use to Study Life on Other Planets

August 4, 20260Comments

Source: Wikimedia Commons There are landscapes that look like other planets, and then there is the Danakil Depression, which scientists actually use as a stand-in for one. It sits in the…

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Millions of Bare Circles Are Scattered Across the Namibian Desert in Near-Perfect Patterns, and Scientists Still Argue About Why

August 4, 20260Comments

Source: Wikipedia From ground level they are odd but unremarkable: bare, roughly circular patches of soil in dry grassland, each one somewhere between two and fifteen meters across, fringed by a…

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Scientists Argued for 150 Years About Why Zebras Have Stripes — Then Someone Dressed Ordinary Horses in Striped Coats and Watched What Happened

August 3, 20260Comments

Some scientific questions are hard because the subject is inaccessible. Others are hard because the subject is so familiar that everyone assumes it must already be settled. The zebra falls…

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The Sahara Desert Was Once a Green Paradise Full of Lakes, Rivers, and Giraffes — and Scientists Finally Know What Turned It to Sand

August 1, 20260Comments

Source: Wikipedia When we picture the Sahara Desert, we imagine the ultimate wasteland: a vast, scorching ocean of sand dunes stretching across North Africa, one of the most hostile and lifeless…

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There’s a Giant Bull’s-Eye in the Sahara So Perfect That Astronauts Use It as a Landmark — and People Insist It’s Atlantis

July 31, 20260Comments

Source: Wikipedia Seen from high above, in photographs taken by satellites and by astronauts aboard the International Space Station, it looks almost too perfect to be natural: a vast, circular pattern…

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The Richest Town on Earth Is Now Being Swallowed by the Desert

July 13, 20260Comments

Source: Wikipedia Ten kilometers inland from the Namibian coastal town of Lüderitz, a cluster of elegant, decaying Edwardian houses sits half-buried in the Namib Desert's endlessly shifting sand, a ghost town…

There’s a Place in Ethiopia With Neon Acid Springs and Salt Flats Below Sea Level That Scientists Use to Study Life on Other Planets

Millions of Bare Circles Are Scattered Across the Namibian Desert in Near-Perfect Patterns, and Scientists Still Argue About Why

Scientists Argued for 150 Years About Why Zebras Have Stripes — Then Someone Dressed Ordinary Horses in Striped Coats and Watched What Happened

The Sahara Desert Was Once a Green Paradise Full of Lakes, Rivers, and Giraffes — and Scientists Finally Know What Turned It to Sand

There’s a Giant Bull’s-Eye in the Sahara So Perfect That Astronauts Use It as a Landmark — and People Insist It’s Atlantis

The Richest Town on Earth Is Now Being Swallowed by the Desert

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