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Earth’s Crust Is Breaking Apart off the Pacific Northwest  SciTechDaily Source link

An unexpected deep-sea deposit may be the smoking gun from a nearby star that exploded as a supernova in the relatively recent past. Earlier this year, a team of scientists in Germany discovered a strange spike in beryllium-10 in the seafloor of the Pacific Ocean. This radioactive isotope forms when cosmic rays strike Earth’s atmosphere. From there it falls, sinks …

Chimneys stand among the rubble after the passage of the Palisades Fire in Pacific Palisades, California, on Jan. 8, 2025. Agustin Paullier | AFP | Getty Images Federal authorities announced Wednesday that they have arrested and charged a Florida man with maliciously starting the deadly Palisades Fire, one of the most destructive blazes in Los Angeles history. Jonathan Rinderknecht, 29, …

A man has been arrested in connection with a deadly wildfire that destroyed much of the Pacific Palisades neighbourhood in Los Angeles, California. Jonathan Rinderknecht, 29, was detained for allegedly starting a fire on New Year’s Day that burned down much of the wealthy area a week later, acting US attorney Bill Essayli said. The blaze, which erupted on 7 …

Months of wondering have been put to rest — Albuquerque will officially be home to Pacific Fusion’s first research and manufacturing campus. A major win for New Mexico, the California-based nuclear fusion energy company has selected Albuquerque’s Mesa del Sol to build its $1 billion facility, officials announced Friday. Since July, the state has held its breath as it navigated competition …

Biggest rail union joins others in endorsing Union Pacific merger but some still have reservations  Boston 25 News SMART-TD and Union Pacific Announce Landmark Agreement Securing Jobs and the Future of Railroading  SMART Union Largest US rail union endorses Union Pacific, Norfolk Southern merger  Reuters Trump: Union Pacific, Norfolk Southern merger “sounds good to me”  FreightWaves Union Pacific Corporation (UNP) CEO Holds Meeting with …

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASESeptember 22, 2025 – Omaha, NE & Independence, OH The International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers – Transportation Division (SMART-TD), the nation’s largest railroad union, and Union Pacific Railroad, the nation’s largest railroad, today announced a historic agreement ensuring job security for thousands of railroad workers as Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern pursue a proposed merger.  This groundbreaking …

A massive earthquake off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula in late July triggered a tsunami that rippled across the Pacific — and NASA’s experimental detection system tracked the event in real-time by monitoring the atmosphere above. NASA’s GUARDIAN (GNSS Upper Atmospheric Real-time Disaster Information and Alert Network) taps into signals from global navigation satellite systems (GNSS), like GPS. When a tsunami forms, …

Scientists aboard the submersible Fendouzhe have made an extraordinary discovery in the depths of the Pacific Ocean. At over 3,000 meters below the surface, researchers have identified massive hydrogen-producing structures that could revolutionize our understanding of deep-sea energy sources. This remarkable finding, located west of the Mussau Trench, represents one of the most significant geological discoveries of recent years. The site, christened …

Press enter or click to view image in full size Detailed laboratory results for the abundances of elements listed on the horizontal axis. The top panel (a) shows the element composition of four Australasian tektites compared to the upper continental crust (UCC) of Earth. The middle panel (b) compares the elemental patterns of the four tektite samples (red, green, blue, …