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  1. Earth

    Seismic noise can yield maps of Earth’s crust

    The small, random, and nearly constant seismic waves that travel in all directions through Earth's crust can be used to make ultrasoundlike images of geologic features within the crust.

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  2. Health & Medicine

    Tracking down an emerging disease

    By examining geographic patterns of outbreaks of a disfiguring skin disease in tropical nations, scientists are finding tentative clues about how the ailment spreads.

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  3. Earth

    . . . and churn up big waves, too

    As Hurricane Ivan approached the U.S. Gulf Coast last September, sensors detected the largest wave ever measured by instruments.

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  4. Earth

    A hurricane can dump a lot of rain .