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Kansas scientists probe mysterious possible comet strikes on Earth
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
23 hours ago |
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It's the stuff of a Hollywood disaster epic: A comet plunges from outer space into the Earth's atmosphere, splitting the sky with a devastating shock wave that flattens forests and shakes the countryside.
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Going vertical: Fleeing tsunamis by moving up, not out
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
15 hours ago |
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In the minutes after a strong earthquake struck offshore of the Indonesian city of Padang on Sept. 30, fears of a tsunami prompted hundreds of thousands of residents to evacuate the coastal city. Or try to.
Born in beauty: Proplyds in the Orion Nebula (w/ Video)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A collection of 30 never-before-released images of embryonic planetary systems in the Orion Nebula are the highlight of the longest single Hubble Space Telescope project ever dedicated to ...
Portions of Arctic coastline eroding, no end in sight, says new study
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
9 hours ago |
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The northern coastline of Alaska midway between Point Barrow and Prudhoe Bay is eroding by up to one-third the length of a football field annually because of a "triple whammy" of declining sea ice, warming ...
Yellowstone's plumbing exposed
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22 hours ago |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The most detailed seismic images yet published of the plumbing that feeds the Yellowstone supervolcano shows a plume of hot and molten rock rising at an angle from the northwest at a depth ...
Tropical Storm Laurence set for second Australian landfall
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Tropical Storm Laurence tracked through Darwin Australia this weekend before sliding back into the Timor Sea and now Laurence is forecast to make a second landfall in Australia. Laurence is forecast to make ...
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