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Maya Wei-Haas

Perseverance's Selfie at "Rochette"

Mysterious purple coating found on Mars rocks

17 January 2022. By Maya Wei-Haas

See a rare baby dinosaur curled up in its fossilised egg

22 December 2021. By Maya Wei-Haas

Ancient footprints hint at mysterious human relative with a strange walk

4 December 2021. By Maya Wei-Haas

How one image captures 21 hours of a volcanic eruption

11 November 2021. By Maya Wei-Haas

Ancient child’s bones deepen mystery of enigmatic human relative

5 November 2021. By Maya Wei-Haas

Deepest earthquake ever detected struck 467 miles beneath Japan

27 October 2021. By Maya Wei-Haas

Fossil footprints challenge theory of when people first arrived in Americas

24 September 2021. By Maya Wei-Haas

Revel in the tiny marvels seen through a microscope

14 September 2021. By Maya Wei-Haas

Mars rover grabs first rock sample, a major step in hunt for alien life

7 September 2021. By Maya Wei-Haas

Fossilised egg from prehistoric giant turtle reveals baby inside

19 August 2021. By Maya Wei-Haas

NASA’s first Mars sample appears to have crumbled to bits

17 August 2021. By Maya Wei-Haas

Here’s what makes earthquakes so devastating in Haiti

15 August 2021. By Maya Wei-Haas

Biggest U.S. earthquake in more than 50 years strikes Alaska—here’s what we can learn

30 July 2021. By Maya Wei-Haas

890-million-year-old sponge fossil may be the earliest animal yet found

29 July 2021. By Maya Wei-Haas

Chunk of an ancient supercontinent discovered under New Zealand

22 July 2021. By Maya Wei-Haas

‘Dragon Man’ skull may be new species, shaking up human family tree

28 June 2021. By Maya Wei-Haas

Earth has lost and gained many oceans. Here's where a new one might appear next.

9 June 2021. By Maya Wei-Haas

An earthquake lasted 32 years, and scientists want to know how

1 June 2021. By Maya Wei-Haas

The Himalaya ‘breathes,’ with mountains growing and shrinking in cycles

13 May 2021. By Maya Wei-Haas

Rare chunks of Earth’s mantle found exposed in Maryland

28 April 2021. By Maya Wei-Haas