The North American craton actually dips near the Rockies rather than forming a sharp vertical step as previously believed.

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In the Andes of Chile, this dirt path runs through dramatic terrain. Remote and wild, it’s only for the brave.

A forty-year study shows climate change is reshaping Amazon and Andean forests, with uneven tree gains and losses across ...

Scientists found that tiny worms called “nematodes” surprisingly survive in Chile’s Atacama Desert.

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The Rocky Mountains have always looked like a geological non sequitur, a towering spine of peaks sitting far from the ...

Physicist Jessica Muir contributes to the Dark Energy Survey, mapping the sky and advancing understanding of cosmic ...

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In a paper published in Earth and Planetary Physics, an international team of researchers studied the magnetic properties of ...