Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Round discs of barren dirt known as “fairy circles” look like rows of polka dots that can spread for miles over the ground. The ...

Himba bushmen in the Namibian grasslands have long passed down legends about the region’s mysterious fairy circles: bare, reddish-hued circular patches that are also found in northwestern Australia.

Water competition, termites and poisons have all been credited with causing the formations in an African desert’s vegetation, but researchers say a new study discounts one of them. By Rachel Nuwer The ...

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At regular intervals across the Australian desert sit empty, circular patches. These “fairy circles” have long intrigued and bewildered scientists. What causes these dusty polka dots? Why do they ...

Small grass plant dead in the fairy circle 19 days after the rain: The root does not reach the more moist soil layers below the "death zone" and because of the low transpiration from its spindly ...

Natural hydrogen from deep underground could be an important building block for the sustainable energy system of the future, but it is currently still difficult to predict where and at what depth ...

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