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Lost medieval city emerges beneath Lake Issyk-Kul after sinking 600 years ago #EarthDotCom #EarthSnap #Earth
Lost medieval city emerges beneath Lake Issyk-Kul after sinking 600 years ago
Beneath the shallow edge of Lake Issyk Kul in Kyrgyzstan, archaeologists have identified the remains of a lost medieval city. Their latest underwater survey revealed a Muslim cemetery, public buildings, and streets now hidden under just a few yards of water. The team believes a powerful earthquake in the early 1400s pushed this settlement under
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November 30, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Lost medieval city emerges beneath Lake Issyk-Kul after sinking 600 years ago #EarthDotCom #EarthSnap #Earth
50-million-year tectonic pause stabilized the climate so trees could grow #EarthDotCom #EarthSnap #Earth
50-million-year tectonic pause stabilized the climate so trees could grow
A new study finds that Earth’s climate flipped between chaotic and calm states during the Late Paleozoic, 360 to 250 million years ago. During a roughly 50-million-year lull in tectonic activity, orbital rhythms steadied temperature and rainfall, and organic carbon built up in rocks that later became coal. Tectonic activity and climate The work was
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November 30, 2025 at 4:43 PM
50-million-year tectonic pause stabilized the climate so trees could grow #EarthDotCom #EarthSnap #Earth
Your kitchen cutting board harbors more gut microbes than you might think #EarthDotCom #EarthSnap #Earth
Your kitchen cutting board harbors more gut microbes than you might think
Every time food is prepared, invisible microbes decide whether that meal will leave a family well or sick. Each year, unsafe food causes around 600 million people to fall ill worldwide, and the danger often begins on ordinary kitchen surfaces. One European assessment estimated that roughly 40 percent of foodborne outbreaks begin in private kitchens.
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November 30, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Your kitchen cutting board harbors more gut microbes than you might think #EarthDotCom #EarthSnap #Earth
Scientists discover the substance that brings diamonds 93 miles up to Earth’s surface #EarthDotCom #EarthSnap #Earth
Scientists discover the substance that brings diamonds 93 miles up to Earth’s surface
Diamonds hitch a ride to the surface inside a rare magma called kimberlite, but only if that magma stays buoyant. New modeling shows that a minimum of 8.2 percent carbon dioxide helps make that possible. The analysis centers on the Jericho kimberlite in northern Canada and explains how diamonds can ascend from more than 93
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November 30, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Scientists discover the substance that brings diamonds 93 miles up to Earth’s surface #EarthDotCom #EarthSnap #Earth
Super-Earth found just 20 light-years away is our ‘best chance so far’ to find life #EarthDotCom #EarthSnap #Earth
Super-Earth found just 20 light-years away is our ‘best chance so far’ to find life
HD 20794 d completes its orbit just shy of two Earth years, placing it well within reach of conditions that might harbor life.
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November 30, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Super-Earth found just 20 light-years away is our ‘best chance so far’ to find life #EarthDotCom #EarthSnap #Earth
Super-Earth found just 20 light-years away is our ‘best chance so far’ to find life #EarthDotCom #EarthSnap #Earth
Super-Earth found just 20 light-years away is our ‘best chance so far’ to find life
HD 20794 d completes its orbit just shy of two Earth years, placing it well within reach of conditions that might harbor life.
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November 30, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Super-Earth found just 20 light-years away is our ‘best chance so far’ to find life #EarthDotCom #EarthSnap #Earth
Oldest city in the Americas left a warning in clay 4,000 years ago, now we know what it says #EarthDotCom #EarthSnap #Earth
Oldest city in the Americas left a warning in clay 4,000 years ago, now we know what it says
On a dusty stretch of Peru’s central coast, clay walls in Caral show starving bodies, expectant mothers, and scenes of deep loss. Archaeologists now read these scenes as a record of a climate catastrophe that forced one of the Americas’ earliest civilizations to change how it lived. These murals come from new settlements that rose
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November 30, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Oldest city in the Americas left a warning in clay 4,000 years ago, now we know what it says #EarthDotCom #EarthSnap #Earth
Mayan monument as large as a city is discovered, but it’s not attached to a king #EarthDotCom #EarthSnap #Earth
Mayan monument as large as a city is discovered, but it’s not attached to a king
About 3,000 years ago, people in an area known as Aguada Fénix, in what is now Tabasco, Mexico, built a flat Mayan monument nearly a mile long. It rises up to 50 feet and is the oldest and largest known monument in the Maya region. A new study argues that this place was designed as
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November 30, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Mayan monument as large as a city is discovered, but it’s not attached to a king #EarthDotCom #EarthSnap #Earth
World’s largest lithium deposit, valued at $1.5 trillion, lies under a supervolcano in the U.S. #EarthDotCom #EarthSnap #Earth
World’s largest lithium deposit, valued at $1.5 trillion, lies under a supervolcano in the U.S.
Buried beneath an ancient volcanic crater on the Nevada Oregon border sits an enormous deposit of lithium rich clay. Scientists now think this quiet landscape may hold enough lithium to influence the global battery market for decades. A new study argues that McDermitt caldera may host about 20 to 40 million metric tons of lithium,
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November 30, 2025 at 2:13 AM
World’s largest lithium deposit, valued at $1.5 trillion, lies under a supervolcano in the U.S. #EarthDotCom #EarthSnap #Earth
Discovery about water molecules contradicts what is taught in textbooks #EarthDotCom #EarthSnap #Earth
Discovery about water molecules contradicts what is taught in textbooks
In a remarkable shift from conventional knowledge, a recent study by researchers from the University of Cambridge and the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research reveals groundbreaking insights into the behavior of water molecules.
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November 30, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Discovery about water molecules contradicts what is taught in textbooks #EarthDotCom #EarthSnap #Earth
Why some owners believe their pets feel complex emotions like jealousy, pride, and even guilt #EarthDotCom #EarthSnap #Earth
Why some owners believe their pets feel complex emotions like jealousy, pride, and even guilt
A survey of pet owners suggests that people who feel less secure are more likely to believe their animals feel complex emotions. The study links those beliefs to how socially connected people feel in everyday life, not just to how much they enjoy animals. Owners who lean hardest on their animals for emotional support are
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November 29, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Why some owners believe their pets feel complex emotions like jealousy, pride, and even guilt #EarthDotCom #EarthSnap #Earth