New earthquake-detecting app may give people more time to drop and cover
ShakeAlert can buy a few precious seconds before a temblor—and panic—hit
Meet Melba Roy Mouton, the Space Race mathematician and keeper of orbiting satellites
Roy Mouton, a mathematician and programmer, was a sort of hidden figure in Hidden Figures
From salmon to snow melt, the predictions for Oregon's climate-changed future are dire
It was hotter in the Willamette Valley this summer than in Abu Dhabi
There's a scientific reason why humans love drumming
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.jpg?auto=format&fit=max&w=3840 "The Springville Hotshots brought fire down a dozer line and tied into Road 81 just north of the Mammoth Pools Trailer Park in the evening of September 10, 2020 as efforts continue to contain the Creek Fire on the Sierra National Forest.")
The Springville Hotshots brought fire down a dozer line and tied into Road 81 just north of the Mammoth Pools Trailer Park in the evening of September 10, 2020 as efforts continue to contain the Creek Fire on the Sierra National Forest.
Pacific Southwest Forest Service, USDA via Wikimedia Commons
2021's wildfire season could be even more devastating to the western US than last year's record-breaker
Fuel moisture data collected by researchers at San Jose State University indicate this year is already very dry
A seismogram of 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami recorded at Weston Observatory in Massachusetts, USA.
Z22 on Wikimedia Commons.
New earthquake-detecting app may give people more time to evacuate
ShakeAlert was designed by researchers at the University of Oregon
Women scientists are bearing the brunt of COVID-19's impacts
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Children can, and should, wear masks in school
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Museums and summer camps are excluding non-white people
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My brother has 4% Neanderthal DNA. What does that actually mean?
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