Michael Marshall

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Model suggests a massive uplift partly explains the peak’s impressive height

September 30, 2024 | 08:00PM

Why Mount Everest is the world’s tallest mountain
First-ever analysis of soil from around the Moon’s south pole was performed using data from the Chandrayaan-3 mission

August 20, 2024 | 08:00PM

India’s pioneering mission bolsters idea that Moon’s surface was molten
Rock samples hold clues to origin of impactor that sparked a mass extinction 66 million years ago

August 14, 2024 | 08:00PM

Dinosaur-killing Chicxulub asteroid formed in Solar System’s outer reaches
Researchers have spent decades hunting for clues about the origins of the process that moves the continents around

August 13, 2024 | 08:00PM

Geology’s biggest mystery: when did plate tectonics start to reshape Earth? Its deep history is finally starting to come into focus
Scientists are attempting to rapidly domesticate wild plant species by editing specific genes, but they face major technical challenges — and concerns about exploitation of Indigenous knowledge

January 08, 2024 | 08:00PM

How CRISPR could yield the next blockbuster crop
Climate change, civil war and international sanctions all contributed to the devastation caused by some of Libya’s worst flooding ever, researchers say

September 14, 2023 | 08:00PM

Libya floods: how climate change intensified the death and devastation
The quake, which has killed thousands, was unusually large for Morocco and struck a region where most buildings are not earthquake-resilient

September 11, 2023 | 08:00PM

Why was the Morocco earthquake so deadly?
Studies are shedding light on rates of recovery as well as the prevention and treatment of the complex condition

June 26, 2023 | 08:00PM

Long COVID: answers emerge on how many people get better

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