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Floating pavilion that rises with the river tides opens in Brazil

November 27, 2025 | Maryna Holovnova
Carlo Ratti Associati, an Italian architectural firm, has collaborated with US studio Höweler + Yoon and Italian construction company Cimolai on a new experiment. The result of their effort is a 400-sq-m (4,306-sq-ft) floating plaza – AquaPraça.

A drying lake is triggering weird seismic activity deep beneath its basin

November 25, 2025 | Chelsea Haney
We tend to think earthquakes are predominantly driven by deep-Earth forces. But a new discovery reshapes that long-held assumption suggesting lake-level fluctuations can stir the shallow crust influencing earthquake risk and tectonic plate movement.

3.3-billion-year-old rocks reveal oldest chemical traces of life

November 27, 2025 | Pranjal Malewar
Using advanced chemistry and AI, a team of Carnegie researchers uncovered new chemical traces of Earth's earliest life in 3.3‑billion‑year‑old rocks, and evidence that oxygen‑producing photosynthesis began over 800 million years earlier than thought.

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