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Kabuki Actor’s Forgotten Manuscript Yields Clues About 1855 Quake in Japan
Researchers analyzed a survivor’s account of the disaster to better understand future temblors.
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Everything’s Coming Up Roses for Pasadena Seismologists
Using fiber-optic cables, a new seismic network charts vibrations associated with the Rose Parade’s massive floats and marching bands.
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The Ice Giant Spacecraft of Our Dreams
Scientists imagined some innovative technologies that could enhance a future mission to Uranus or Neptune.
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Voyager 2’s Interstellar Arrival Was Kind of Familiar. That’s Surprising
The spacecraft crossed the solar system’s edge at a different spot and in a different solar season than Voyager 1. Nevertheless, the border looked much the same in both spots.
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Curiosity Monitors Rare Global Dust Storm From Mars’s Surface
Since the 1970s, no surface platform had made meteorological measurements of a global dust storm on Mars, but last summer NASA’s Curiosity rover witnessed one of these rare events.
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Newly Discovered Fossil Species Named After Star Wars Starship
The 500-million-year-old species is a distant relative of today’s crabs, spiders, and insects.
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Hotness and Coldness Indexes Based on the Fahrenheit Scale
An undergraduate project redefines the h-index.
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Amoeba People Find a Niche for Nerdy Science Music
The group’s rocking new album, The Fossil Record, includes a genre-bending set of songs that helps make science foot-tapping fun.
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Largest Delta Plain in Earth’s History Discovered in Arctic
If this Triassic period delta existed today, its footprint would equal about 1% of all land on Earth.