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  1. Earth

    Ancient rocks reveal when rivers began pouring nutrients into the sea

    Rivers began pumping weathered material into the sea about a billion years after Earth formed, suggesting continents may have gotten an early start.

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  2. Climate

    Unearthed ice may be the Arctic’s oldest buried glacier remnant

    Thanks to climate change, thawing permafrost in the Canadian Arctic has revealed the buried remnant of a glacier that’s 770,000 years old.

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  3. Earth

    ‘Turning to Stone’ paints rocks as storytellers and mentors

    Part memoir, part geology explainer, Marcia Bjornerud’s latest book explores the hidden wisdom of Earth’s rocks.

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  4. Anthropology

    How does a fossil become a superstar? Just ask Lucy.

    Geologic good fortune, skilled scientific scrutiny and a catchy name turned Lucy into an evolutionary icon.

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  5. Anthropology

    An African strontium map sheds light on the origins of enslaved people

    While genetic tests can reveal the ancestry of enslaved individuals, strontium analysis can now home in on where they actually grew up.

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  6. Planetary Science

    NASA’s Perseverance rover found a new potential setting for Martian life

    Now atop Jezero Crater, the robotic explorer found quartz indicative of habitable environments and possibly the oldest rocks yet seen in the solar system.

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  7. Archaeology

    Ancient Central Americans built a massive fish-trapping system

    Earthen channels directed fish into ponds that formed seasonally, providing a dietary bounty for Maya civilizations starting around 4,000 years ago.

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  8. Readers react to Betelgeuse’s buddy, the 2024 Nobels and small nuclear reactor waste

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  9. Animals

    American burying beetles are making a comeback in Nebraska

    Thanks to decades of conservation to restore private grasslands, numbers of the threatened insect are on the rise in the Loess Canyons.

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  10. Earth

    Scientists predict an undersea volcano eruption near Oregon in 2025

    Real-time data from Axial Seamount off the Oregon coast is providing researchers with a good eruption forecasting test.

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  11. Animals

    Polar bears are being exposed to more pathogens as the climate warms

    Polar bears have been exposed to more viruses, bacteria and parasites in recent decades, a new study shows, possibly acquiring the germs in their diet.

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  12. Earth

    Another danger looms after the LA fires: Devastating debris flows

    As wildfires burn the landscape, they prime slopes for debris flows: powerful torrents of rock, mud and water that sweep downhill with deadly momentum.

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