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The Amazon Rainforest Is Fertilized Every Year by Dust Blown 1,600 Miles Across the Atlantic From a Dried-Up Lake Bed in the Sahara

August 4, 20260Comments

Picture the two places side by side. On one side of the Atlantic, the Sahara: the largest hot desert on the planet, stretching across the northern third of Africa, defined…

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In 1997 the Loudest Sound Ever Recorded Underwater Baffled Scientists for Years, and People Were Convinced It Came From a Sea Monster

August 4, 20260Comments

In the Southern Hemisphere summer of 1997, a team from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration was doing routine work: monitoring an array of underwater microphones, or hydrophones, positioned to…

Destinations

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…

Lifestyle

For Millions of Years the Whole Planet Froze From the Poles to the Equator — and That Deep Freeze May Be Why Complex Life Exists at All

August 4, 20260Comments

Look at Earth from orbit today and you see the famous blue marble: oceans, cloud swirls, green continents. Run the clock back roughly 700 million years and an observer in…

Destinations

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…

Food

Archaeologists Found Honey in Egyptian Tombs That Was Still Edible After 3,000 Years — Here’s the Chemistry That Makes It Nearly Immortal

August 4, 20260Comments

Walk through the storage areas of any museum with a substantial Egyptian collection and you will find, among the pottery and the alabaster, vessels that once held food. Most of…

The Amazon Rainforest Is Fertilized Every Year by Dust Blown 1,600 Miles Across the Atlantic From a Dried-Up Lake Bed in the Sahara

In 1997 the Loudest Sound Ever Recorded Underwater Baffled Scientists for Years, and People Were Convinced It Came From a Sea Monster

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

For Millions of Years the Whole Planet Froze From the Poles to the Equator — and That Deep Freeze May Be Why Complex Life Exists at All

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

Archaeologists Found Honey in Egyptian Tombs That Was Still Edible After 3,000 Years — Here’s the Chemistry That Makes It Nearly Immortal

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