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A mathematical model of how earthquake faults permanently deform the ground has revealed that the complex internal makeup of an...

Beneath the sun-baked landscape of southeastern Spain, an underground microbial world is being shaped by chemistry that changes from one...

A radioactive gas rising from mountain springs in the Czech Republic has helped scientists reveal how groundwater moves through the...

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A new earthquake-engineering study of Catania, Sicily, suggests that the seismic safety of an urban tunnel cannot be judged by...

A river basin in northern Finland has become a real-world laboratory for a powerful but controversial idea: that small changes...

Ethiopia’s summer rains may be governed by two vast, invisible rivers of air moving high above the ground, according to...