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Venus ate its moon | UCR News | UC Riverside
2+ hour, 13+ min ago (715+ words) Study explains why Earth’s ‘twin’ lacks rocky satellite Scientists have long speculated why Venus, with a similar size, mass, and structure to Earth, doesn’t have a moon. New UC Riverside research shows it’s because our hungry twin likely swallowed it....
Gondwana Was Bigger Than We Thought: Hidden Continents Reveal...
16+ hour, 4+ min ago (838+ words) Gondwana was far larger than scientists once believed, and a new study suggests the ancient supercontinent may have played an important role in creating the conditions that helped life rapidly expand on Earth. Published September 9, 2026, in Science Advances, the study…...
Venus has no oceans or water rain and far less surface erosion than Earth, so its rift valleys preserve clues our planet quickly erases. Simulations show that broad, steep shoulders belong to young, rapidly widening rifts—and Ganis, Dali and Devana Chasmata still carry that signature, suggesting parts of Venus may be tearing open today.
15+ hour, 59+ min ago (542+ words) Wide, steep flanks at Ganis, Dali and Devana Chasmata resemble young active-rift models, although the topography cannot yet show that extension continues today....
Taraba holds maiden solid minerals investment roundtable
18+ hour, 55+ min ago (467+ words) September 14, 2026 by John Mkom, Jalingo Taraba State Government has organised its first-ever Solid Minerals Investment Roundtable as part of measures to ensure safe and beneficial exploration of the state’s mineral resources. The summit was held at the Banquet Hall of…...
States miss jobs, revenue from $700bn mineral wealth
19+ hour, 55+ min ago (1191+ words) Dele Alake, Minister for Solid Minerals Development Nigeria’s 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory are sitting on vast deposits of solid minerals estimated at more than $700bn, yet most states have done little to turn the resources within their territories into…...
Scientists find evidence for an ancient supercontinent that covered 80 percent of Earth's surface
20+ hour, 22+ min ago (1128+ words) Ancient crust buried beneath modern mountains suggests Gondwana once contained about 80% of Earth’s continental landmass. (CREDIT: Wikimedia / CC BY-SA 4.0) Hundreds of millions of years after Gondwana broke apart, enormous pieces of the ancient landmass may still be hiding beneath some…...
90-Million-Year-Old Fossil Reveals a Small Dinosaur Living Along Japan???s Coast
20+ hour, 35+ min ago (277+ words) A small iguanodontian fossil from Japan adds evidence that Late Cretaceous coastal ecosystems supported dinosaurs of widely different body sizes. Iguanodontians were widespread plant-eating dinosaurs that lived from the Late Jurassic through the Late Cretaceous. Their movement between Asia, North…...
Africa’s Geological Data Race: Xcalibur Expands Its Footprint Across The Continent
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (216+ words) Xcalibur has also participated in major mapping programmes in Nigeria, including work under the World Bank-backed MinDiver project. The company won an international tender to conduct high-resolution magnetic and radiometric surveys, techniques capable of revealing geological structures and subsurface variations…...
Behold the Scorpion King
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (34+ words) yahoo.com Discover the fascinating world of the dictator scorpion, one of the largest scorpions globally, with formidable claws and a nocturnal lifestyle, facing threats from habitat loss in West Africa....
FG, US plan mining cooperation deal on sidelines of UNGA
1+ day, 41+ min ago (646+ words) Dele Alake, Minister for Solid Minerals Development Nigeria and the United States are set to deepen cooperation in the mining sector, with both countries targeting the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York for the signing of…...