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Modernizing a Global Magnetic Partnership
For 30 years, INTERMAGNET, a worldwide network of ground-based observatories, has aided advances in navigation, precision drilling for oil and gas, and mitigating space weather impact on technology.
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A Global Monitoring System Could Change the Future of Climatology
Researchers hope that a network of highly consistent climate-observing sites will resolve long-standing issues with climatological data.
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Flying Saucers Could One Day Probe the Mesosphere
Researchers have created thin, levitating disks that could be used to study the mesosphere, a layer of Earth’s atmosphere that’s difficult to reach with conventional flyers.
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A New Robust Estimator of Earthquake Magnitude Distribution
The b-value, which describes the fraction of large versus small earthquakes, is less sensitive to transient changes in detection threshold and may improve the detection of precursory changes.
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Seven Ways PIs Can Counteract Systemic Bias Right Now
Principal investigators are the monarchs of their science kingdoms. Here are seven things they can do for the betterment of the realm—ehrm, lab group.
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Superlasers Shed Light on Super-Earth Mantles
By compressing iron oxide to pressures expected inside a large and rocky exoplanet, scientists discovered that such mantles could layer, mix, and flow in ways very different from those inside our planet.
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Gauging Ungauged River Basins with Smart Remote Sensing
A clever combination of hydrologic modelling and discharge estimates from the Landsat satellite provides good discharge estimates throughout the Missouri river basin.
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Teaching Geoscience History in Context
The history of geoscience is filled with racist ideology and problematic foundational figures. A new set of modules aims to help educators by offering more inclusive context for inequities in the field today.
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The Surprising Source of Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Changing the way emissions are tallied may help litigators focus on the worst climate offenders and shape mitigation.