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  1. Humans

    Letters

    Letters from the Jan. 3, 2004, issue of Science News.

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  2. Earth

    New technique dates glaze on desert rocks

    Scientists have developed a quick, easy, portable, and nondestructive way to determine the age of desert varnish, the mysterious dark coating that slowly develops on rocks in many arid regions of the world.

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  3. Earth

    Newfound fault may explain quakes

    Tsunami simulations suggest that a newly discovered fault zone beneath the Atlantic Ocean could have released most of the seismic energy from three earthquakes that destroyed Lisbon, Portugal, on the morning of Nov. 1, 1755.

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  4. Earth

    Alaska shook, mountains spoke

    Small pulses in atmospheric pressure detected in Fairbanks soon after the magnitude 7.9