Feature
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Earth
Infrasonic Symphony
Scientists are eavesdropping on volcanoes, avalanches, earthquakes, and meteorites to discern these phenomena's infrasound signatures and see what new information infrasound might reveal.
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Materials Science
News That’s Fit to Print—and Preserve
Analyses of newsprint materials suggest that, despite their frail appearance, newspapers can last more than 200 years in storage—a fact that calls into question the merits of microfilming.
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Earth
Thin Skin
Desert pavement, a delicate veneer of stones that covers the surface of up to 50 percent of the world's arid lands, is susceptible to being damaged by everything from multi-ton tanks to careless footsteps, and the resulting scars can take thousands of years to mend on their own.
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Planetary Science
Next Stop, Interstellar Space
Data recorded by the venerable Voyager 1 spacecraft suggest the craft has either recently encountered or will soon enter a key region near the edge of the solar system.
By Ron Cowen -
Humans
Science News of the Year 2003
A review of important scientific achievements reported in Science News during the year 2003.
By Science News -
Science & Society
Science News of the Year 2003
A review of important scientific achievements reported in Science News during the year 2003.
By Science News -
Humans
Undignified Science
Research advances in 2003 heralded a string of unexpected scientific indignities that will occur in the future, at least in the fevered imagination of one writer.
By Bruce Bower -
Humans
Undignified Science
Research advances in 2003 heralded a string of unexpected scientific indignities that will occur in the future, at least in the fevered imagination of one writer.
By Bruce Bower -
Math
Bookish Math
Statistical tests and computation can help solve literary mysteries surrounding the authorship of well-known works.
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Math
Bookish Math
Statistical tests and computation can help solve literary mysteries surrounding the authorship of well-known works.