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A smiling man about 30 years old stands in a brightly lit museum exhibit hall next to a meter-tall dinosaur fossil that stands on a platform.

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Morgan Rehnberg: The Making of a Museum Chief

by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 24 August 202123 March 2023

From Cassini to #scicomm to showcasing science.

Police tape in front of the National Cathedral.

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Ten Years on from the Quake That Shook the Nation’s Capital

by T. L. Pratt, M. C. Chapman, A. Shah, J. W. Horton Jr. and O. Boyd 20 August 202128 September 2021

A decade of study into the Virginia earthquake that damaged D.C. and reverberated up and down the Atlantic coast in 2011 has shed light on rare, but risk-laden, seismicity in eastern North America.

Four backpackers look down the Yellowstone River where it flows through the Black Canyon.

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Don’t Call It a Supervolcano

by Mary Caperton Morton 6 August 202122 December 2021

Living in Geologic Time: Scientists dismantle the myths of Yellowstone.

A single geyser erupts steam into the sky.

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Why Study Geysers?

by S. Hurwitz, M. Manga, K. A. Campbell, C. Muñoz-Saez and E. P. S. Eibl 30 July 202125 February 2022

Aside from captivating our senses, geysers have much to tell us about subsurface fluids, climate change effects, and the occurrence and limits of life on Earth and elsewhere in the solar system.

Illustration of a small, mottled, cold exoplanet, with its host star in the background.

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Exoplanets in the Shadows

by Damond Benningfield 26 July 202125 October 2021

The bright clutter of individual discoveries can overshadow some fascinating research, from necroplanetology to rogue planets to the intimacy of alphanumeric nomenclature.

A close-up view of the grid of hexagonal golden mirrors that make up the primary mirror of the James Webb Space Telescope.

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Overture to Exoplanets

by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 26 July 202124 October 2022

The curtain is about to rise on the James Webb Space Telescope. Let’s see what’s in store for its opening act.

Illustration of exoplanet Kepler-1649 c orbiting its host red dwarf star

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The Forecast for Exoplanets is Cloudy but Bright

by Kate Evans 26 July 202126 April 2022

Clouds make climate modeling on Earth difficult. Identifying—and even defining—atmospheric phenomena on other planets is the next big exoplanet challenge.

Computer artwork of two transportation vehicles on the Moon, with the Earth visible in the sky above

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Hear Ye! Hear Ye! A Declaration of the Rights of the Moon

by Kate Evans 20 July 202118 December 2023

What are the ethics of mining the Moon? Could humans cause environmental damage to Earth’s only satellite? And could a new Declaration of the Rights of the Moon be one way of mitigating those impacts?

Una imagen satelital de un río atmosférico el 20 de febrero de 2017, que ayudó al oeste estadounidense a salir de una sequía de cinco años.

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¿Cómo afectará el cambio climático a los Estados Unidos en las próximas décadas?

by D. Wuebbles, D. W. Fahey and K. A. Hibbard 8 July 202128 September 2021

Un nuevo informe del gobierno de EE. UU. muestra que el clima está cambiando y que las actividades humanas conducirán a muchos más cambios. Estos cambios afectarán el nivel del mar, la frecuencia de las sequías, las precipitaciones severas y más.