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Seismologists monitor Ridgecrest quake aftershocks using novel fiber optic network

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Iconic California beaches have lost most of their biodiversity

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New technique helps engineer water filters, human tissues

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Scientists discover new mechanism for how soils store carbon

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Astronomers see evidence of Einstein's theories in star orbiting massive black hole

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Clues found on how soils may respond to climate change

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Study in Antarctic waters reveals why Ross Ice Shelf melts in summer

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'Terminators' on the sun trigger plasma tsunamis, start of new solar cycles

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What motivates people to join -- and stick with -- citizen science projects?

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North Carolina coastal flooding is worsening with climate change, population growth

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How fat prawns can save lives

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Common feature of cancer cells may also be their Achilles' heel

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Device channels heat into light

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Scientists deepen understanding of magnetic fields that surround Earth

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New computational tool for data scientists, biologists and other researchers

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Algae-killing viruses spur nutrient recycling in oceans

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Physicists find first possible 3D quantum spin liquid

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PFAS chemicals move from mom to fetus at higher rate in women with gestational diabetes

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Correcting historic sea surface temperatures reveals simpler pattern of ocean warming

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Between ants and acacias, timing is everything

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New method may resolve difficulty in measuring universe's expansion

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Using artificial intelligence to better predict severe weather

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'Oumuamua interstellar object was not an alien spacecraft

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Researchers wirelessly manipulate gene, step toward reprogramming the human genome

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Vitamin C is key to protection of new nanomaterial

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How much water does a snowpack hold?

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Robot arm 'tastes' with engineered bacteria

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Stanford study shows how to improve production at wind farms

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Scientists discover how birds navigate crosswinds

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Ice is sliding toward edges of Greenland Ice Sheet

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