Earthquake Damage: Are Bad Maps to Blame?
A new study argues that earthquake-hazard maps didn’t give engineers and seismologists a full picture of several recent quakes’ dangers
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Grandpa Bugs: 230-Million-Year-Old Arthropods Found in Amber
Flies and mites are usually pests – except, perhaps, when they’re really old. For the international team of scientists that has found one fly and two mites that lived 230 million years ago trapped in amber droplets, the …
Beating the Odds: Teenage Cancer Patient Completes Her Bucket List
Swim with sharks. Meet a famous pop band. Stay in a caravan. These are all rather standard items to scribble on one’s bucket list – though there’s an inherent problem with most lists: they often languish, unachieved. But a …