3+ day, 8+ hour ago  (242+ words) Most chondrites contain the anhydrous silicate minerals olivine, orthopyroxene and clinopyroxene, and plagioclase, as well as the nickel-iron minerals kamacite and taenite and the iron sulfide troilite. When these minerals begin weathering in moist greenhouse soil, they release iron and…...

4+ day, 14+ hour ago  (192+ words) Earthquakes Canada has reported a magnitude 4. 4 earthquake occurred in Eastern Quebec Thursday morning at 10: 21 a. m. EDT. According to Earthquakes Canada, it was located in the St. Lawrence River near Mont-Joli at a depth of about 25 kilometres. "There are no reports of…...

4+ day, 7+ hour ago  (38+ words) Yahoo 4. 5 billion years ago, a massive world orbited our sun then shattered. One of its fragments landed on Earth. How has it changed our understanding of history?...

4+ day, 8+ hour ago  (371+ words) While studying ancient bird remains in China's Changma Basin, researchers kept finding broken bones packed into odd, pellet-like clumps. The pattern suggested that some of the region's earliest birds were being consumed by a predator and later regurgitated. The regurgitated…...

4+ day, 15+ hour ago  (615+ words) Arsenio Butil Jr. fell to his knees and began to pray when last week's deadly 7. 8-magnitude earthquake began shaking his home on the coast of the southern Philippines. When he opened his eyes, he saw a once-familiar shoreline changing in…...

4+ day, 16+ hour ago  (438+ words) Minutes after the massive 2011 Japan earthquake and tsunami that killed nearly 20, 000 people, "a previously unrecognised" phenomenon may have caused the whole country to shift further eastwards, a new study reveals. Such megaquakes are often followed by events that cause additional…...

5+ day, 5+ hour ago  (306+ words) Japan's catastrophic Tohoku-Oki earthquake in 2011 was so strong that it caused the entire country to "slip," in some areas by as much as five or six millimeters, according to new research. Park and her team relied on an extensive Global…...

6+ day, 21+ hour ago  (43+ words) A tornado-like lava vortex formed alongside Kilauea's erupting lava fountain, sending ash and debris swirling in a rare volcanic spectacle. A tornado-like lava vortex formed alongside Kilauea's erupting lava fountain, sending ash and debris swirling in a rare volcanic spectacle....

5+ day, 4+ hour ago  (68+ words) A 5, 000-year-old structure discovered in southwest England may have been a prototype for the development of Stonehenge, according to archaeologists....

5+ day, 17+ hour ago  (420+ words) Archaeologists have discovered a structure near the iconic prehistoric stone circle of Stonehenge in southern England that may have served as a "prototype" for the 5, 000-year-old Neolithic monument. A team from the British firm Wessex Archaeology said the structure would…...