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  1. Earth

    New app puts an earthquake detector in your pocket

    Smartphone app MyShake uses motion-sensing accelerometers to detect nearby quakes. The app could provide early warnings of incoming tremors, its creators say.

    By Thomas Sumner
  2. Genetics

    Neandertal DNA may raise risk for some modern human diseases

    Neandertal DNA may once have helped humans, but now may contribute to disease.

    By Tina Hesman Saey
  3. Physics

    The long road to detecting gravity waves

    Thanks to two colliding black holes, Einstein's historic prediction of gravitational waves disturbing the fabric of spacetime has finally been realized.

    By Marcia Bartusiak
  4. Physics

    Gravitational waves explained

    Colliding black holes send ripples through spacetime that can be detected here on Earth.