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Storm waves can move boulders heavier than the Statue of Liberty

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Storm waves can move boulders heavier than the Statue of Liberty

Extreme storm waves at sea have shifted a boulder weighing 620 tonnes, explaining why huge rocks are sometimes mysteriously found on high cliffs

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earth pyramids in Alps

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Otherworldly 'earth pyramids' make the Alps look alien

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Mars

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Mars rocks may have drunk up all the water and doomed life there

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Starry Night painting

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New blues: The quest to make the world’s rarest colour

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Danakil depression

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Scorching hot springs house extreme life and a future ocean

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Dan McKenzie

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Dan McKenzie: The man who made Earth move

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Enceladus’s hot, gritty core may cook up ingredients for life

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Enceladus’s hot, gritty core may cook up ingredients for life

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The latest science reads remind us why we really do need experts

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The latest science reads remind us why we really do need experts

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eruption

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Cataclysms: A life spent chasing planetary catastrophe

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The dwarf planet Eris

Space

Volcanoes that spew stretchy ice could make dwarf planets bright

Something strange is happening on dwarf planets Eris and Makemake. They’re tiny and cold, but they still show surprising signs of geologic activity, like real planets

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Earth

The next supercontinent: Four ways Earth could reshape itself

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Mexico City quake: A few seconds' warning can still save lives

Analysis

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Huge space rocks could have helped start Earth’s plate tectonics

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There is no way to spot big earthquakes ahead of time

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