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Rachel Crowell is a freelance math and science writer based in Iowa who has written for Eos, Scientific American, the American Mathematical Society, Science News for Students, The Open Notebook, and other publications. Crowell, who is a former AAAS Mass Media Fellow, holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and statistics from the University of Missouri at Kansas City.

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Case studies from around the world illustrate the power of geodetic data in earthquake monitoring.

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In the most detailed and highest-resolution black hole simulation to date, an international team of researchers showed the Bardeen-Petterson effect for the first time.

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