23 stories tagged with #geology, in publish-time order across the WeSearch catalog. Tag pages update as new stories ingest.
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Explainable Causal Reinforcement Learning for planetary geology survey missions with embodied agent feedback loops
It was 3 AM, and I was staring at a terminal window filled with telemetry data from a simulated Mars rover. The reinforcement learning (RL) agent I had trained overnight had just c…
‘Anomalous’ Earthquakes Have Hit Utah for Decades. Geologists Are Finally Closing in on an Answer
Researchers have identified a previously unknown type of earthquake that can begin as deep as 55 miles underground.…
Fingal's Cave: Scotland's 'cave of melody' where eerie echoes bounce off pillars of solidified lava
Fingal's Cave is a hollow inside the Scottish island of Staffa that is characterized by massive, interlocking hexagonal columns of volcanic rock and astonishing acoustics.…
When Quiet Undersea Volcanoes Turn Disruptive
Earth’s largest volcanic system, hidden in mountain chains under the sea, has long been assumed to erupt only quietly. The shallow seafloor off Iceland tells another story. The pos…
Gold glitters around Ghana's 'lake of souls' thanks to catastrophic meteor strike — Earth from space
A 2015 satellite photo shows a series of golden tendrils surrounding Ghana's Lake Bosumtwi, which is considered sacred to the local Asante people. The lake and its surroundings wer…
Geo-Expert: Towards Expert-Level Geological Reasoning via Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning
While general-purpose Large Language Models (LLMs) applied to Geology often hallucinate when reasoning about subsurface structures and deep-time evolution, current AI in Earth scie…
Bizarre patterns on Venus have scientists puzzled
Scientists are trying to understand Venus' bright surface formations, called coronae, using new 3D maps.…
Ancient fossilized trees may finally prove Noah’s Ark flood is true: scientists
Turns out the only thing more deeply buried than these trees is the debate over what buried them.…
How hot is Earth's core?
What's the temperature in Earth's core, and how did we figure that out?…
Mega-canyon discovered beneath Greenland ice sheet
Mega-canyon discovered beneath Greenland ice sheet…
Earth from Space: Algerian arid landscape
The sandy and rocky terrain of the Sahara desert in central Algeria is featured in these images captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission.…
Omega-3 could hurt the brain, China scores rare-earth find: 7 science highlights
From China’s new war on deserts to Singapore-based physicist’s big move, here are some highlights from SCMP’s recent science reporting.…
Locksley jags rich antimony beneath old Californian mine
Locksley Resources has hit high-grade antimony below historic mine workings in California, peaking at 33.51% antimony in a maiden diamond drill program.…
H.P. Lovecraft borrowed from this real Connecticut seismic phenomenon
Moodus, Connecticut has produced audible earthquake booms since before European contact. Shallow micro-earthquakes reach the surface before losing sound.…
The Appalachian Mountains hold enough lithium to make 500 billion cellphones, researchers discover
Researchers with the U.S. Geological Survey estimated that the ancient Appalachians mountain system holds 2.5 million tons of the critical element lithium.…
'The system is likely to reach a breaking point': Major Italian volcano is speeding toward a transition, and a major eruption could be on the way
Campi Flegrei, a volcanic caldera near Naples, is speeding toward a transition, a new study suggests, but there are still a lot of questions as to whether it will erupt in the near…
Proposal: Surface=Laterite
Johnson’s Cindy Evans Prepares Artemis Teams for Lunar Science
NASA’s Artemis II crew had many technical and operational responsibilities during their historic mission to the Moon, but they also served an important role…
Hidden earthquake faults beneath Seattle may be more dangerous than expected
A hidden network of earthquake faults running beneath Seattle may be far more active than scientists realized. New research reveals that smaller “secondary” faults in the Seattle F…
Farming in Ancient Lake Agassiz
The glacial lake left a layer of silt and clay in southeastern Manitoba, creating fertile farmland that was divided during 19th-century land surveys and is still farmed today.…
Internal deformation detected within ‘rigid’ Indian plate: New study
A study reveals subtle internal deformation in the Indian tectonic plate, challenging its perceived rigidity and influencing earthquake potential.…
Scientists Discover Strange New Crystal Formed by Nuclear Blast
A type of crystal lattice called a clathrate structure has been found for the first time in the fallout of a nuclear detonation.…
Can ‘extinct’ volcanoes still erupt? A Greek peak holds surprising clues
Tiny crystals suggest extinct volcanoes could still grow underground, a finding that could reshape how scientists assess eruption risk.…