Solar wind most likely source of water on the Moon
Lunar water reserve could even be used as rocket fuel
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Meteorite points to asteroid Vesta’s dynamo
Magnetic field could shield Vesta from solar wind
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Slow-cooling super Earths could lack life
Studying how the interiors of expolanet varies with time is essential to knowing if they harbour life
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What is carbon capture and storage?
James Verdon explains the principle of trapping carbon dioxide in rocks
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Geologist claims to have found plate tectonics on Mars
"Strike-strip" fault points towards large-scale movements
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What is fracking?
James Verdon describes how to squeeze out hard-to-reach shale gas
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Giant carbon-capturing funnels discovered in Southern Ocean
Five 1000 km-wide carbon-sink zones identified
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X-rays probe the origins of hotspot volcanoes
Experiment may provide evidence for "mantle plume" hypothesis
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‘Missing silicon problem’ solved, say geophysicists
Earth's lower mantle matches chondritic meteorites
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Return to Macondo
Alastair Fraser reviews Joel Achenbach's A Hole at the Bottom of the Sea: the Race to Kill the BP Oil Gusher
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