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In the Pilbara of Western Australia, some of Earth’s oldest rocks lie beneath the sky, as they have for billions of years. They are dark, weathered volcanic rocks, close to 3.5 billion years old, cut ...

For years, Mars has sat in an awkward middle ground, too geologically quiet to look like Earth. At the same time, it is too complex to be written off as a dead world of simple basalt.

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The White House orders US defense contractors to map critical supply chains and identify adversary-nation sources, boosting ...

An artist's render of Mars. (Kevin M. Gill/Flickr/CC BY 2.0) For decades, our picture of Mars was of a dead desert world. Its magnetic field exists only in sparse patches. Its lakes and rivers have ...

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Discover the world's quietest place at Microsoft's Building 87 anechoic chamber, designed with advanced soundproofing to ...

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Pacific oyster extract protected the gut barrier and reduced inflammation in human cells, giving discarded oysters a ...