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    Your article was very interesting. While hiking in terrains ranging from midwestern prairies to alpine environments, I’ve seen different forms of buckling due to freezing forces. Though evaporation was given a nod in the article, it too can be a significant force to form patterned ground. In March of 2002, I walked out to the […]

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  2. Earth

    Patterns from Nowhere

    Scientists are developing geophysical models that may explain the polygonal patterns that appear in and on the ground in remote regions of the Arctic, Antarctica, and possibly the surface of Mars.

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  3. Chemistry

    Plastic Electric

    Scientists are finding new ways to improve the molecular order and electrical conductivity of a commercially important conducting plastic.