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Cell phone alert saying “Earthquake Detected! Drop, Cover, Hold on. Protect Yourself -USGS ShakeAlert”
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Earthquake Alerts Go Live in the Pacific Northwest

by Jenessa Duncombe 4 May 20213 June 2022

Oregon and Washington residents will receive an alert on their cell phones if they are in danger from an incoming quake.

Illustration of MAIA instrument’s multiangle views over the globe
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Using Satellite Data to Map Air Pollution and Improve Health

by Jackie Rocheleau 15 April 20211 November 2021

NASA scientists will be teaming up with epidemiologists in the agency’s first health-focused mission. With satellite data, they’ll find out how air pollution affects health in cities around the world.

Una representación artística de Europa Clipper volando a través de las plumas de Europa, estudiando la luna y buscando vida.
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Esta búsqueda por vida alienígena comienza con la destrucción de bacterias en la Tierra

by JoAnna Wendel 14 April 202129 September 2021

Algún día, un catálogo de fragmentos moleculares podría ayudar a científicos a identificar vida extraterrestre en las lunas heladas de nuestro sistema solar.

Soil chips help researchers understand how fungi species behave at the microscopic level in soil.
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Soil Chips Help Scientists Spy on Fungal Navigation

by Bas den Hond 13 April 202122 February 2022

Soil chips provide a micrometer-resolution window into life underfoot, shedding light on how fungi behave when navigating soil’s mazes.

King Edward Point magnetic observatory near Mount Duse on the island of South Georgia
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Modernizing a Global Magnetic Partnership

by A. W. P. Thomson and S. M. Flower 31 March 202118 April 2022

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.

A climate reference station in the Nevada desert consisting of precipitation gauges surrounded by wooden fencing with solar-powered equipment nearby. Shrubs and brush dot the foreground and background.
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A Global Monitoring System Could Change the Future of Climatology

by Saima Sidik 26 March 20218 March 2022

Researchers hope that a network of highly consistent climate-observing sites will resolve long-standing issues with climatological data.

A small plastic disk levitates above an LED array in a vacuum chamber.
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Flying Saucers Could One Day Probe the Mesosphere

by Damond Benningfield 25 March 20213 November 2021

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.

Two engineers talk in front of a bridge while holding a schematic
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Seven Ways PIs Can Counteract Systemic Bias Right Now

by Jenessa Duncombe 12 March 20218 October 2021

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.

Cutaway view of a rocky planet’s layered interior structure with a nebula in the background
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Superlasers Shed Light on Super-Earth Mantles

by Kimberly M. S. Cartier 10 March 202130 September 2021

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.

Two maps of the Missouri river basin showing estimates of river discharge in a hydrological model (top) and when the model incorporates satellite data (bottom).
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Gauging Ungauged River Basins with Smart Remote Sensing

by Marc F. P. Bierkens 10 March 202131 March 2022

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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