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Building damaged by earthquake

Earth

Seismic shift: Can we cloak cities from earthquakes?

From underground musical pipes to swaying metal rods and strategically planted trees, these megaprojects could conquer earthquakes and tame tsunamis

Trou au Natron volcano

Earth

Nomad鈥檚 land: Journey into the rugged heart of the Sahara

A tunnel in the Large Hadron Collider

Earth

Huge newfound deposit of helium will keep MRI scanners running

the power station in iceland where the project is being carried out.

Earth

CO2 injected deep underground turns to rock 鈥� and stays there

Map of Mars's methane

Environment

Spongy minerals could explain why Mars gives off methane burps

oil

Earth

The Oracle of Oil: The man who predicted peak oil

A thermal image coloured red, yellow and green, with a blue channel running through it

Environment

Mars was once devastated by giant 50-metre tsunamis

A spectacular landscape of cliffs with a waterfall plunging down to a crater and rocky pinnacles in the background

Earth

Inside the lost cave world of the Amazon’s tepui mountains

White-headed Capuchin Monkey in Costa Rica

Environment

21-million-year-old fossil is North America’s first monkey

solar system

Earth

How two tiny dots defy the history of life and the solar system

Two specks of rock that formed when Earth was young suggest we've got to rethink everything from the story of the solar system to the origins of life

Earth

Waking supervolcano makes North Korea and West join forces

Earth

Little mountains of toothpaste highlight the plight of the Alps

Earth

First life may have been forged in icy seas on a freezing Earth

Earth

Earth’s rarest minerals could hint at life on other planets