‘Lid’ of asteroid dust smothered and burned the dinosaurs, say scientists
Heat and fire may have caused the mass extinction of Cretaceous creatures
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Earthquake fault irregularities control rupture speed and influence ground motion
New models show that high-speed rupture propagation produces stronger and longer-duration ground motion
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Physics-based simulations could improve earthquake-damage predictions, why aren’t they being used?
Discussion and debate at the US National Conference on Earthquake Engineering
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Seismic waves reflected from Earth’s core moved parts of Japan 5 mm east
Shift followed the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake and represents a new type of seismic hazard
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Identifying maximum viscosity: a slide puzzle
Can you reconstruct an image of part of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge in this interactive slide puzzle?
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Geophysicist identifies a maximum practical viscosity
Boundary between materials that flow and those that don’t could shed light on Earth’s early history
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The coming hurricane: early-career physicists and the crisis in American science
Parallel sessions at the American Physical Society’s Global Physics Summit reveal a stark divide
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Ancient reversal of Earth’s magnetic field took an extraordinarily long time
Field-flipping event 40 million years ago in the Eocene epoch lasted 70,000 years
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Earthquake-sensing network detects space debris as it falls to Earth
Proof-of-principle experiment resolved the shock waves produced by the Shenzhou-15 module when it re-entered the atmosphere
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Saving the Titanic: the science of icebergs and unsinkable ships
Two studies published this week have an unexpected (if tenuous) link to the 20th century’s most famous maritime disaster
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