It is humanity’s end: an unknown comet will collide with the earth and wipe out everything that lives and breathes on it. This is the scenario in Netflix’s dystopian comedy Don’t Look Up, where a professor and an astronomy grad student make an astounding discovery. This science fiction satire focuses on how two low-level astronomers discovered…
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The Making of Mountains: Cycles of Building and Decay (Part 3)
The process of creating and destroying mountains has been ongoing from prehistoric times to the present. Massive cordilleras, such as the far-flung Andes, may have formed as a result of millions of years of sedimentary deposit and crustal buckling. The Kilimanjaro volcanic cone, on the other hand, most likely formed abruptly, much like the new…