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Science • Jun 17

San Andreas fault reaches highest stress level in 1,000 years, study say

New research finds the San Andreas and San Jacinto faults have reached their highest stress levels in 1000 years.

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Science • Jun 17

New study finds stress on San Andreas Fault may be at highest level in 1,000 years

SAN DIEGO COUNTY, Calif. — A new study is drawing attention to California's biggest earthquake threat, with researchers concluding that stress levels along...

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Science • Jun 17

SpaceX to return to Earth Wednesday morning

Dragon arrived at the ISS last month loaded with supplies and experiments for the crew. It's expected to splash down off the California coast Wednesday...

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Science • Jun 16

One of America's most dangerous fault lines reaches highest stress levels in 1,000 years, study finds

Just 50 miles from downtown Los Angeles, a critical junction where two of California's most powerful fault systems meet has been quietly accumulating stress...

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Science • Jun 16

Breakthrough to Make Bones Stronger Could Reverse Osteoporosis

Osteoporosis occurs when the body fails to replace old bone as it is broken down. This causes bones to become brittle and weak, making them more prone to...

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Science • Jun 16

Strange Green Stones And a Child's Tooth Deepen a Pyrenees Mystery

For archaeologists there's something wonderfully strange about 'Cave 338', high up in the Pyrenees mountains in southwestern Europe.

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Science • Jun 16

Why the stress building on California’s faults could result in a major quake

California is no stranger to earthquakes, but the Los Angeles area may be at an increased risk of a more substantial quake in the years ahead.

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Science • Jun 16

The Webb Telescope Has Captured Its First 'Bulge Fossil Fragment'

Many of the developments shared by astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope and similar instruments center on trying to understand the history of...

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Science • Jun 16

The Milky Way’s huge black hole was missing a key feature. Scientists say they finally detected it

Scientists say they have detected evidence of cosmic-scale wind coming from a supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, potentially solving one...

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Science • Jun 16

Among the large new rockets Amazon was counting on, only Europe has delivered

Amazon now has hundreds of flight-ready satellites standing idle in Florida, waiting to join the company's low-Earth orbit Internet constellation, an Amazon...

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Science • Jun 16

High degree of quantum entanglement detected for first time in centimeter-sized crystal of strange metal

Many quantum effects can be observed only when a small number of particles is studied—individual atoms, molecules or photons, for example,...

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Science • Jun 16

NASA X-ray spacecraft catches jet erupting from 1st supermassive black hole imaged by humanity

Astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray spacecraft have obtained the most detailed image yet of the jet erupting from the supermassive black hole at the...

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Science • Jun 16

Third time's the charm for a row of faint galaxies without dark matter

A Yale-led team of astronomers has found a third galaxy devoid of dark matter—located alongside the other two in a formation that has never been seen before...

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Science • Jun 16

California’s tectonic systems at highest levels of stress in 1,000 years – study

San Andreas and San Jacinto fault systems in 'critically loaded state', increasing chance of 'big one' quake in future.

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Science • Jun 16

Physicists identify upper limit to resistivity in a pure metal

Experimental atomic physicists have discovered there is a maximum amount of electrical resistance, or resistivity, that can result from collisions between...

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Science • Jun 16

Moon to block DC’s view of Venus on Wednesday afternoon

Got binoculars? A telescope? If you do, haul them out Wednesday afternoon to observe the three-day-old waxing crescent moon occult — block D.C.'s view — of...

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Science • Jun 16

SpaceX Cargo Dragon Departs Space Station With Science Research

HOUSTON—NASA's 34th SpaceX Dragon resupply capsule spacecraft has departed the International Space Station (ISS) loaded with scientific research and tested...

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Science • Jun 16

What Would Happen if the Sun Stopped? Part 2: Kelvin and Helmholtz at the Ready

(This is Part 2 of a series on what would happen if the Sun stopped. Read Part 1 first.) When you crank up your stove to heat a pan to cook your eggs,...

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Science • Jun 16

Europa’s Ice Shell Gets Its Best Radar Portrait Yet: A 13-Year Dataset Arrives

Europa ice shell data from a 13-year bistatic radar campaign using Goldstone and the NSF Green Bank Telescope was unveiled today at AAS 248 in Pasadena.

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Science • Jun 16

‘Fireworks’ spotted in stellar explosion 15 million light-years away

Galaxy M83 is home to some unexpected pyrotechnics from the aftermath of a supernova.

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