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Elise Cutts

An Apollo 11 astronaut installs a seismometer on the lunar surface. Footprints are visible in the lunar regolith, and the seismometer is a shiny device about the size of a kitchen table.
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Fiber-Optic Networks Could Reveal the Moon’s Inner Structure

by Elise Cutts 3 April 202414 May 2024

Distributed acoustic sensing offers a cost-effective alternative to traditional seismic arrays, and building such a network on the Moon might be possible.

A white planet with some topography
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Giant Impacts Might Have Triggered Snowball Earth Events

by Elise Cutts 15 March 202420 March 2024

Running into the right space rock at the right time may have been enough to tip Earth into a runaway cold spell.

A brilliant green mineral juts out from a chunk of blackish rock dotted with other patches of green crystals.
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Olivine May Have Given Life a Jump Start

by Elise Cutts 1 February 20241 February 2024

A mineral common throughout the solar system nudges a reaction that produces sugar molecules from formaldehyde.

A brown river overflows its banks in a green, hilly region with houses.
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Pooling Data Could Help Anticipate Megafloods in Europe

by Elise Cutts 5 January 20245 January 2024

Locally surprising floods aren’t so surprising in a continent-wide context.

A portion of a cream-colored planet covered with pale swirls and partially in shadow is shown against the blackness of space broken by pinpoints of light. A hazy atmosphere is visible around the planet.
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These Four Exoplanets Have Wild, Rocky Weather

by Elise Cutts 7 December 20237 December 2023

On many exoplanets, conditions are so exotic that minerals form clouds and fall as rain. Recent studies revealed the rocky weather on these four exoplanets in more detail than ever before.

Satellite image of the Mississippi River surrounded by a green landscape
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Rivers Are Warming Up and Losing Oxygen

by Elise Cutts 3 November 20233 November 2023

Researchers used deep learning to fill in the gaps of “patchy” water quality data, revealing decades-long trends toward warmer and less oxygenated rivers that could have worrisome consequences.

A flaming asteroid entering a planet’s atmosphere
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Meteor Impact Site Holds 200-Million-Year-Old Atmospheric Snapshot

by Elise Cutts 19 October 202329 November 2023

Minerals formed in short-lived hydrothermal systems set off by a meteor impact in France preserved information about noble gases in the ancient atmosphere.

A black plume of smoke behind two single-family homes
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Some Chemicals Lingered for Weeks After Ohio Train Derailment

by Elise Cutts 23 August 202323 August 2023

Researchers drove around a van outfitted with a sensitive mass spectrometer to measure airborne chemicals weeks after the disaster.

Erin Macdonald makes a Vulcan salute (a hand sign of greeting from Star Trek) at a bar while wearing a Star Trek badge.
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Erin Macdonald: Putting the Science in Science Fiction

by Elise Cutts 25 July 202315 November 2023

The “Julia Child of science” makes science accessible through pop culture.

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Jose Rolon: Ready for Any Emergency

by Elise Cutts 25 July 20236 October 2025

An emergency manager for New York City Emergency Management, Jose Rolon deals with the controlled chaos that follows a disaster.

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