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Geology & Geophysics

1 February 2018

When Your Weird Science Gets Stopped at Airport Security

“Gamma ray spectrometer,” “rock hammer,” and “putty knife” are not phrases that airport security likes to hear.
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Let geoscience data engage your senses in a new way: through the power of music.
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25 January 2018

Dropping the Beat with Some Geoscience Data

Listen to the music of the ice, the turning of the planets, the ringing of rings, the rockin’ of quakes, and the mournful tones of global warming.
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9 January 2018

A Window into the Emerging Anthropocene…Through Art

Want a snapshot of how humans have been changing their landscapes since the Industrial Revolution? Look at artwork at a local museum, one geoscientist says.
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29 December 2017

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18 December 2017

Sketch Your Science: Our Guesses About Your Sketches

Eos staff do their best to guess what scientists were drawing on the Sketch Your Science wall at the American Geophysical Union’s Fall Meeting in New Orleans, La.
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7 December 2017

Jovey McJupiterface and Other Flights of Whimsy via JunoCam

Jupiter has van Gogh skies, kaleidoscope geometry, and fearsome dragons, if you can just look at the planet with an open mind.
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Love and Eos Make the World Go Round

A scientist tells the story of how Eos brought her and her husband together.
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