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dendritic carbonate growths that form when mineral-rich vent fluids seep through the flange and come into contact with the cold seawater

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401

Life in Hydrothermal Vents

December 31, 2024

Episode

400

Drilling into Earth’s Mantle

December 24, 2024

Rakus with his wound, on June 23, 2022, two days before he was observed applying a poultice of medicinal leaves.

Episode

399

Orangutan, Heal Thyself

December 17, 2024

71,000 BCE bifacial silcrete point found at the Blombos Cave in South Africa.

Episode

398

Earth’s First Geologists

December 10, 2024

The "Great Unconformity" in Arizona’s Grand Canyon

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397

Earth’s Billion-Year Mystery

December 3, 2024

The mushrooms of Armillaria ostoyae are the fruiting bodies of a much larger organism that spreads underground.

Episode

396

The Humongous Fungus “Among-Us”

November 26, 2024

A peek through a "skylight" into the interior of an active lava tube on the south flank of the Kīlauea Volcano on Hawai‘i’s big island in the early 1970s.

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395

Living in Lava Tubes

November 19, 2024

A light microscopy image shows the marine algae Braarudosphaera bigelowii.

Episode

394

When Small Organisms Merge

November 12, 2024

MIT mathematical physicist Virginia Tower Norwood mans the Storm Detector Radar Set at the Army Signal Corps Laboratories in New Jersey in 1950.

Episode

393

Mother of Landsat

November 5, 2024

A ball python

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392

Python Protein

October 29, 2024

Scientists define the ozone hole as the total area where ozone amounts drop below 200 Dobson Units.

Episode

391

Healing the Ozone Layer

October 22, 2024

Bright solar flares light up sunspot regions on the Sun on August 31, 2012

Episode

390

Solar Flares versus Coronal Mass Ejections

October 15, 2024

This Carnotaurus theropod appears more anguished than angry.

Episode

389

Dino Diseases

October 8, 2024

Exposed wave ripples during low tide at Fire Island National Seashore, New York.

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388

The Changing Tides

October 1, 2024