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ILYAS AKENGIN / AFP / Getty Earthquakes Are Unlike Any Other Environmental Disaster
Hurricanes and volcanic eruptions can be predicted. But earthquakes always come as ambushes.
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Emily Mason / USGS The Volcanologist’s Paradox
Studying powerful eruptions means witnessing beauty and tragedy in the same moment.
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A Portal to Mars on the Tip of Iceland
A volcano erupting on the island is a living replica of what once happened on Mars.
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NASA / JPL-Caltech / University of Arizona Mars Doesn’t Look So Dead After All
New discoveries have raised the possibility that the planet’s volcanoes, long assumed dormant, may still be active.
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Maxwell Burnstein What Happens If a ‘Big One’ Strikes During the Pandemic?
Hundreds of preexisting plans deal with individual natural-disaster scenarios. But these plans haven’t accounted for COVID-19 happening at the same time.
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Cigdem Sean Cooper / Getty Why the Search for Dark Matter Depends on Ancient Shipwrecks
Errant particles from everyday radioactive materials are a major obstacle for particle physicists. The solution? Lead from the bottom of the sea.
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VINCENZO PINTO / Getty Images An Italian Volcano Turned Out to Be a Fraud
“There’s just no evidence we can see that this was ever a volcano.”
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Geoffrey Evatt The Mystery of Antarctica’s Missing Meteorites
Hiding deep under the ice, iron meteorites could hold clues to the solar system’s past.
