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Nearly three miles beneath the eastern Pacific, researchers found pockets of super-salty water trapped in the crust along the Gofar transform fault, one of the planet’s most active undersea plate boundaries. The find promises fresh insight into why this fault delivers magnitude‑6 earthquakes with clock‑like discipline. The survey, led by Christine Chesley of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), used controlled‑source …

The artifacts were preserved in low-oxygen clay and are the oldest wooden tools ever found in East Asia. Liu et al. 2025Thirty-five wooden implements were discovered in a soil layer dating back up to 300,000 years. Archaeologists working at the Paleolithic site of Gantangqing in southern China have discovered a rare collection of tools dating back up to 300,000 years. …

Some of the most familiar atoms in the air above our heads appear to vanish when scientists audit Earth’s interior. Geochemists have spent decades tracing nitrogen’s trail yet always come up billions of tons short. Earth’s rocky shell, the bulk silicate Earth (BSE), holds only one to five parts per million of nitrogen, a tally wildly below the cargo delivered …

Fossils are invaluable archives of the past. They preserve details about living things from a few thousand to hundreds of millions of years ago. Studying fossils can help us understand the evolution of species over time, and glimpse snapshots of past environments and climates. Fossils can also reveal the diets or migration patterns of long-gone species – including our own …

Two black holes have collided in a merger that could revolutionize our understanding of black hole growth. Named GW 231123 after the date it was recorded on 23 November 2023, it’s the most massive black hole collision we’ve seen yet, resulting in an object heavier than 225 Suns. Previously, the most massive black hole collision produced an object 142 times …

Science suffers when meteorites and fossils become an asset class  Financial Times Want to own a huge chunk of Mars? It could cost you up to $4 million  CBS News The biggest piece of Mars on Earth is going up for auction in New York  NPR Largest Mars Meteorite Heads To Auction Block  The Weather Channel The largest Mars rock on Earth is up …

Ben-Itzhak studies what she has termed “space blocs” – the emerging groupings of space nations. Right now, as countries plan a return to the Moon, it looks like the US and Russians will soon go their separate ways. Russia will likely side with China, and Western nations – including Europe and Canada – will coalesce around the US. But there are …

Earth and our entire Milky Way galaxy may sit inside a mysterious giant hole which makes the cosmos expand faster here than in neighboring regions of the universe, astronomers say. Their theory is a potential solution to the ‘Hubble tension’ and could help confirm the true age of our universe, which is estimated to be around 13.8 billion years old. …

An international team of astronomers has uncovered new evidence to explain how pulsing remnants of exploded stars interact with surrounding matter deep in the cosmos, using observations from NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) and other telescopes.  Scientists based in the U.S., Italy, and Spain, set their sights on a mysterious cosmic duo called PSR J1023+0038, or J1023 for short. The J1023 …