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Eleanor Imster
New earthquake fault found in California
Scientists have discovered a new fault in the earthquake-prone region of Southern California that includes the greater Los Angeles area.
October 7, 2016
A 3rd Saturn moon has subsurface ocean
Saturn's moons Titan and Enceladus are already known to hide oceans beneath their icy crusts. Researchers think there's an ocean deep in Saturn’s moon Dione as well.
October 6, 2016
Microplastics found in deep-sea animals
Scientists were astonished to discover tiny bits of plastic inside the bodies of animals in the deep ocean.
October 4, 2016
Goodbye September
Jüri Voit saw this rainbow yesterday, the last day of September, in Estonia.
October 1, 2016
Mercury is tectonically active
New findings suggest Mercury is contracting and experiences ongoing "mercuryquakes."
September 29, 2016
Are we in a sixth mass extinction?
This short video puts modern extinctions in context by comparing them with Earth's 5 previous mass extinctions.
September 29, 2016
Possible water plumes spotted on Europa
Water plumes erupting on Jupiter's moon Europa might make it easier to investigate whether life exists in the warm ocean believed to be deep beneath its icy surface.
September 27, 2016
New theory on why time advances
Why does time flow inexorably toward the future? A Berkeley physicist proposes that time is expanding because space is expanding.
September 26, 2016
Last hurrah of sunlike star
New Hubble image shows the demise of a sunlike star. Our own sun will also burn out and shroud itself with stellar debris, but not for another 5 billion years.
September 26, 2016
Melting sea ice leaves polar bears hungry
“Sea ice really is their platform for life. They are capable of existing on land for part of the year, but the sea ice is where they obtain their main prey.”
September 24, 2016
