Plots of mineral modal abundance and the weight percentage of mineral-bound water (blue lines) for (a) metabasaltic and (b) metasedimentary rocks from the modern Cocos plate at 1.3 GPa and over the range of temperatures along the flat slab top beneath Guerrero.

Metasomatism and Slow Slip: Talc may make Mexico’s subduction zone more...

Dalian Coherent Light Source revealing vacuum ultraviolet photodissociation of sulfur dioxide as an important prebiotic-O2 source. Credit: Yuan Kaijun

A possible trigger for Earth’s great oxidation event

A reconstruction of an Australian pterosaur

107-million-year-old pterosaur bones discovered in Australia

Image: Jorge Gonzalez This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

New dino, ‘Iani smithi,’ was face of a changing planet

Spinosaur tooth from the Wealden seen from two different angles.

Multiple species of semi-aquatic dinosaur may have roamed pre-historic Britain

Credit: Science Advances (2023). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adh0150

New 3D images give never-seen-before views inside New Zealand’s largest fault

Rare Gems and Minerals in New Mexico

+30 Rare Gems and Minerals in New Mexico

Venetia Diamond Mine, South Africa. Photo by Dr Tom Gernon, University of Southampton

Scientists crack the code of what causes diamonds to erupt

Explosive lava spews from the latest eruption of the Fogo volcano located on the Cape Verde islands in November 2014. Science now knows that carbon dioxide – instead of water – triggered it. Credit: Ricardo Ramalho/Cardiff University

Carbon dioxide – not water – triggers explosive volcanoes

Close up image on one wall showing numerous depressions of hadrosaur footprints. The ice ax in the lower left of the frame is approximately 3 feet long, for scale. Photo by Patrick Druckenmiller

Scientists explore dinosaur ‘Coliseum’ in Denali National Park

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