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Other Sciences
Saturday’s quote: Cold dark matter takes a hit. A new paradigm in biology. those fracking earthquakes
This image shows a small portion of the field observed by NIRCam (Near Infrared Camera) on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope for the Cosmic Evolution and Early Emission Science (CEERS) study. It’s full of galaxies. Some galaxies grew so large and so quickly that simulations seem unable to explain them. But new research has found that some of these early…
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Earth
Are splay faults the “gateways” that trigger great continental transform earthquakes?
Credit: CC0 Public Domain The five largest continental transform earthquakes since 2000 have all occurred on tributaries of the main fault, and the two researchers predict that the next big earthquake of this type will also occur on a tributary or branch fault. Last year’s magnitude 7.8 Pazarchik earthquake in Turkey was one of several large, damaging earthquakes caused by…
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