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Kelly Kizer Whitt
Some tornadoes are more destructive than we thought
A new study documents the distribution of supercell-tornado wind intensities and sizes, revealing that most are much stronger than damage surveys indicate, with more than 20% of tornadoes potentially capable of causing catastrophic EF-4/EF-5 damage.
March 25, 2021
Owl keeps an eye out, in New York
This nocturnal owl wakes briefly during the day to have a quick look around.
March 25, 2021
Long trip to Mars may cause astronauts to misread emotions
A study here on Earth simulating the weightless conditions of space travel showed that the longer the participants were exposed to a low-gravity environment, the more they perceived facial expressions as angry.
March 24, 2021
Scientists stunned to discover plants beneath mile-deep Greenland ice
Fossilized plants found in the rocks and soil beneath Greenland ice suggests the ice melted at some point in the last million years and may do so again.
March 21, 2021
10 years after Japan’s big tsunami
See before and after satellite images of one coastal city from the March 11, 2011, Japanese tsunami. How it looked before, and how it looks today.
March 21, 2021
SETI’s Nathalie Cabrol on modern-day Mars life, underground
SETI's Nathalie Cabrol believes a widespread biosphere exists on Mars that has migrated underground over the past few billion years.
March 18, 2021
Small temperature increase can cause bigger wildfires, more often
A new study shows that just a half a degree of global temperature rise markedly increases fire danger on the most widely inhabited continents.
March 14, 2021
View a map of 25,000 supermassive black holes
Hours of radio observations have enabled scientists to create a map of the locations in Earth's night sky of 25,000 supermassive black holes. These black holes are very far away, occupying the cores of distant galaxies.
March 12, 2021
A Martian cloud reveals its secrets
Clever camerawork allowed scientists to view an elusive cloud that streams away from Mars' volcano Arsia Mons and determine how it's formed.
March 11, 2021
First exoplanet with evidence of tectonics
A new study reveals a distant exoplanet with one hemisphere pulsing with volcanic activity and the other hemisphere quietly providing the fuel.
March 11, 2021
