Feature
- Space
The Status Quark
Murray Gell-Mann reflects on matter’s building blocks and scientists’ resistance to new ideas.
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Disaster Goes Global
The eruption in 1600 of a seemingly quiet volcano in Peru changed global climate and triggered famine as far away as Russia
- Earth
Shaky Forecasts
Despite past failures, geophysicists think earthquake prediction might still be possible.
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What do you see?
Emotion may help the visual system jump the gun to predict what the brain will see.
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Pearls Unstrung
For a while, the Great Lakes weren’t connected by rivers and Niagara Falls was just a trickle.
