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At the foot of Sainte Victoire, the mountain in Provence immortalized by Impressionist painter Paul Cezanne, a paleontologist brushes meticulously through a mound of red clay looking for fossils. These are not any old fossils, but 75-million-year-old...
On March 28, 2025, a major earthquake with a moment magnitude (Mw) of 7.7 struck Mandalay, central Myanmar (referred to as the 2025 Myanmar earthquake). This event caused severe shaking and substantial damage in Myanmar and...

What’s the tallest wave ever recorded on Earth?

This wave was taller than the Empire State Building. In July 1958, an 8.3-magnitude earthquake at the Fairweather Fault rocked Alaska's southern coast. The ground-shaking...

Strange ‘reverse shock wave’ supernova is exploding in the wrong direction

Part of the shock wave is shrinking rather than expanding. A powerful shock wave traveling through a cloud of gas left behind by the explosive...

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