Is Greenland really a land of untapped riches? A geologist went looking in the 1990s

Is Greenland a land of rare earth riches? The Indicator tells the story of an Australian geologist who learned the great cost ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Did Earth Once Have a Ring Like Saturn? Geologists Find Evidence for a Halo of Orbiting ...

An illustration of Earth with a ring. Kevin M. Gill via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY 2.0 During a tumultuous period for our planet around 466 million years ago, Earth was pelted with meteorites and ...
The New York Times

How Many Continents Are There? You May Not Like the Answers.

Recent earth science developments suggest that how we count our planet’s largest land masses is less clear than we learned in school. By Matt Kaplan The world is split up into continents, there are ...
Artnet

A Geologist-Art Historian Says She Knows Where the Mona Lisa was Painted

Art historians have tussled for ages over many aspects of what is arguably the world’s most famous painting: Leonardo’s Mona Lisa (ca. 1503–08). Who was the sitter? What does her smile mean? Is the ...
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I watched every movie with a female geologist and here’s what I learned

When I decided to study geology, I had only seen two movies with female geologists: Volcano and Jurassic Park. They did not exactly convey what working as a geologist is like (thank goodness!). Would ...
IFLScience

A Geologist Found The Oldest Water On Earth, And Then She Tasted It

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...