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COLUMBIA, S.C – A federal judge ruled Tuesday that South Carolina can't issue license plates showing the image of a cross in front of a stained glass window along with the phrase "I Believe." U ...

This paper proposes a new theoretical content and research framework of multi-spheric interaction-driven hydrocarbon ...

Using information from inside the rocks on Earth's surface, we have reconstructed the plate tectonics of the planet over the last 1.8 billion years. It is the first time Earth's geological record ...

The surface of Mars has been shaped by plate tectonics in the recent past, a new study asserts, making the Red Planet perhaps a better candidate to host life than scientists had thought.