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12 U.S. Mountains Scientists Say Are Still Growing

Suhail Ahmed

  Across the American landscape, some of our most iconic summits are not finished yet – they’re inching skyward while we go about our lives. The mystery is deceptively subtle: growth measured in millimeters each year, but compounded over centuries by relentless tectonic pressure. Researchers are now reading these movements like heartbeats, mapping tiny uplifts ...

Magnitude 4.6 earthquake in Santa Cruz County felt across Bay Area

Northern California Rocked by 4.6 Magnitude Earthquake, No Injuries Reported

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Rude Awakening in the Predawn Hours (Image Credits: Upload.wikimedia.org) Santa Cruz Mountains – A magnitude 4.6 earthquake rumbled through Northern California just before dawn on Thursday, startling residents from their sleep across a wide swath of the Bay Area. The quake struck 1 kilometer east-southeast of Boulder Creek at 1:41 a.m. local time, sending tremors ...

Scattered rain and storms Thursday and Friday, warmer temps

St. Louis Set for Foggy Mornings, Gusty Winds, and Scattered Storms Before Weekend

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Scattered Showers and Thunder Before Weekend (Image Credits: Unsplash) St. Louis – Residents awoke to patchy fog Thursday morning as overnight rains shifted westward into areas northwest of the city.[1][2] Scattered showers lingered in counties like Gasconade, Montgomery, and Pike early in the day, signaling an unsettled pattern ahead.[1] Warmer temperatures and strengthening southerly winds ...

From Apollo to Artemis: Why NASA Has Taken So Long to Return Humans to the Moon

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Artemis Emerges as the Turning Point (Image Credits: Wikimedia Commons) Humanity’s last steps on the Moon occurred during Apollo 17 in December 1972, capping a remarkable era of exploration. Excitement waned soon after as national priorities evolved amid economic pressures and geopolitical shifts. Decades later, NASA’s Artemis initiative signals a determined push to reestablish a ...

A Scientist Thinks Our Reality Emerged from a Primordial Quantum Multiverse. He’s Not Crazy.

Scientist Suggests Our Universe Emerged From a Primordial Quantum Multiverse

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Superposition’s Grip on Primordial Possibilities (Image Credits: Pixabay) Astronomers have peered deeper into space than ever before, revealing galaxies formed mere hundreds of millions of years after the Big Bang and ripples from the universe’s birth etched in the cosmic microwave background. Yet one puzzle persists: what preceded the explosive inflation that shaped our cosmos? ...

To Unlock New Physics, Scientists Are Plotting a Journey Through a Black Hole

Scientists Explore Whether a Journey Through a Black Hole Could Reveal New Physics

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A Microchip’s Audacious Voyage Begins (Image Credits: Pexels) Astrophysicist Cosimo Bambi envisioned a fleet of minuscule spacecraft embarking on an epic journey to the edge of a black hole. These gram-scale probes, no heavier than a paperclip, would harness the power of ground-based lasers to accelerate toward one-third the speed of light.[1][2] The mission promised ...

What do scientists hope to learn from NASA's historic Artemis 2 moon flyby?

NASA’s Artemis 2 Mission Will Hunt for Deep Space Hazards and Lunar Mysteries

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Human Eyes on the Moon’s Far Side (Image Credits: Pexels) NASA’s Artemis 2 mission launched on April 1, 2026, sending four astronauts on a 10-day journey around the Moon – the first crewed lunar flyby in more than half a century.[1][2] Commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover, mission specialist Christina Koch, and Canadian Space Agency ...