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An illustration depicts our solar system, with the Sun at the center and other planets orbiting the Sun.
Posted inNews

Tales and Textiles Can Communicate the Science of Planets

by Grace van Deelen 17 January 202417 January 2024

Artists are working with a scientist and a writer to boost public understanding of the science of planetary interiors.

A neighborhood covered in thick, orange smoke.
Posted inEditors' Vox

The Connections Between Landscape Fires and Your Health

by Nancy French, Tatiana Loboda and Robin Puett 20 December 202322 January 2024

A transdisciplinary reference guide to investigating relationships between biomass burning during landscape fires, the smoke it creates, and the impacts on human health and well-being.

Photo of the Aurora Borealis in Iceland
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Foundations in Data Analysis for Undergraduate STEM Students

by Michael W. Liemohn 31 October 202330 October 2023

A new textbook serves as an initial course in scientific data analysis and hypothesis testing designed for students in all science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines.

A sketch of a blue lake in the mid ground with a brown dock in the foreground. In the background, cliff faces of the gray Canadian Rockies repose under a blue sky with white clouds.
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Rocky Voices: A Q&A with Eva Enkelmann

by Alka Tripathy-Lang 15 May 202315 May 2023

A new book aimed at young adults explores the construction of the Canadian Rockies from the perspective of the minerals, fossils, and waterdrops that make and shape the landscape.

Jane, an anthropomorphized zircon crystal, complete with a face, arms, and legs, experiences stages of development in a magma chamber.
Posted inGeoFIZZ

Meet Jane, the Zircon Grain—Geochronology’s New Mascot

by Alka Tripathy-Lang 27 August 202130 March 2023

In a children’s book written by geochronologist Matthew Fox, he condenses 400 million years of history into 34 playfully poetic pages as he follows the travels of a single grain of sand.

Una ilustración de un artista de Titán como su fuera una portada de libro.
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El universo de Dune inspira la nomenclatura de Titán

JoAnna Wendel, freelance science writer and illustrator by JoAnna Wendel 27 July 202126 January 2022

En todo el sistema solar, la ciencia choca con la ciencia ficción en formas literarias.

A selection of book covers from the Geophysical Monograph Series, 1956–2020.
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New Editorial Board for AGU Books Takes Inventory

by Andreas Keiling and Jenny Lunn 16 June 20211 February 2022

The new Editorial Board for AGU Books looks back at its historic backfile of books and evaluates how the program has grown and diversified over six decades.

Screenshot of Robert Ballard sitting at his command center during a Zoom interview. Behind him, several computer screens show images from his explorations, including of the Nautilus, his state-of-the-art ship, the bow of the Titanic, and giant tube worms.
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A Life at Sea: A Q&A with Robert Ballard

by Alka Tripathy-Lang 16 June 202114 January 2022

A new memoir from the famed explorer dives into his underwater discoveries, his life with dyslexia, and the importance of communicating with the public.

A picture of the Space Physics and Aeronomy five volume collection
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New Book Collection Presents Latest in Heliophysics Research

by Y. Zhang and L. Paxton 12 May 202118 November 2021

A new set of five books presents the latest science on the Sun and the solar wind, magnetospheres in the solar system, Earth’s ionosphere, Earth’s upper atmosphere, and the effects of space weather.

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Holy Water: Miracle Accounts and Proxy Data Tell a Climate Story

Korena Di Roma Howley, Science Writer by Korena Di Roma Howley 10 May 20215 October 2021

In 6th century Italy, saints were said to perform an unusual number of water miracles. Paleoclimatological data from a stalagmite may reveal why.

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