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- Earth
Major earthquakes not linked
Global seismic risks don’t rise following big events, scientists say.
- Planetary Science
New rock type found on moon
Odd spots on the lunar farside could be ancient material that originated deep inside the moon.
- Earth
How continents do the splits
East African seismic study reveals how land gives way to ocean crust.
- Earth
Great quake one of the biggest ever in Japan
BLOG: Magnitude-8.9 tremor will go down in seismology’s record books
- Planetary Science
Venus, erupting?
Lava flow suggests recent volcanism on Earth’s nearest planetary neighbor.
- Earth
Earth/Environment
Licorice may be a natural alternative to antibiotics on hog farms, plus more in this week’s news.
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Like a Bolt from Above
Lightning scientists begin to solve electric mysteries.
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A year on the job, she takes pride in disaster response
When she took over in November 2009 as the first female director of the U.S. Geological Survey, geophysicist Marcia McNutt already had her work cut out for her in streamlining and modernizing a historic scientific agency. That was before a string of natural disasters—earthquakes in Haiti and Chile, a volcanic eruption in Iceland and the […]
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Continental Hearts
Ancient expanses called cratons pose a geological puzzle
- Earth
Warm spell spurred tropical biodiversity
The number of plant species exploded in South America as atmospheric carbon dioxide, and temperatures, rose abruptly about 56 million years ago.
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Basic research generates jobs and competitiveness
Trained as a mechanical engineer in India, Subra Suresh researched the interfaces between engineering, biology and materials science before becoming dean of engineering at MIT and, as of October, director of the U.S. National Science Foundation. In February in Washington, D.C., at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Suresh […]
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