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Bill Dilworth, Caretaker of ‘The New York Earth Room,’ Is Dead at 70
For decades, he tended a SoHo loft filled with dirt, made by the conceptual artist Walter De Maria. People made pilgrimages ...
The biggest piece of Mars on Earth is being auctioned off in New York
This is the first time such an historical and rare piece is auctioned off. Sotheby’s says the eventual buyer of the items is ...
Big dams may have changed how the Earth rotates, new study finds
New research has uncovered that the construction of water dams has shifted Earth's poles in subtle but important ways.
Scientists Rewrite the Story of Earth’s First Continents With a Fiery New Twist
New research from HKU geologists suggests that Earth's first continents were born not from plate tectonics, but from deep ...
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Scientists manage to simulate what the first days of early Earth were like, 4.5 billion years ago
Scientists created a simulation showing that early Earth still retained chemical traces of its igneous youth, 4.5 billion years ago.
Human-Constructed Dams Have Shifted the Earth’s Poles, Scientists Say
New research suggests that the thousands of dams built over the past two centuries have caused the Earth's poles to drift ...