Archive: Motors, Teens, Geology Mysteries, Mars Flood, Pluto, Stem Cells, More
December 6, 2024
Here are some of the stories we were reporting in early December 2001, restored from archives.
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Mars Life Is a Mirage
February 24, 2022
It's an ongoing fault of astrobiologists to stampede on life claims. Two geologists want to yank the reins.
Geology: A Science Where Theories Undergo Subduction
March 8, 2018
In plate tectonics, continental plates get subducted and melt under pressure. That’s like what happens to geological theories. Read enough geology papers, and you will find old theories constantly being replaced. Classic examples include plate tectonics becoming the new normal after Wegener’s theory had been viciously attacked, and megaflood theory for the Channeled Scablands becoming […]
Stromatolites and Suppositions
March 15, 2016
We know some things about stromatolites, but we don't know what we don't know.