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Alicia Chang

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Alicia Chang

Remembering California’s forgotten quake

It is the California earthquake hardly anyone has heard of — strong enough to rip 362km of the San Andreas Fault and make rivers run backward, but leaving nothing like the…

Pluto, we hardly knew ye … 1930-2006

Not long after puny Pluto was stripped of its planethood, Janis Robinson started selling ”Pluto is a planet” T-shirts on the internet. Robinson, who said she ”rolled her eyes”…

LA doctors prepare to separate conjoined twins

Doctors in Los Angeles are prepared for a marathon surgery to separate 10-month-old twin girls joined from the chest to the pelvis. The operation, scheduled to begin early on…

Scientists discover new species of assassin spider

Researchers scouring the remote forests of the African island nation of Madagascar have found that tiny assassin spiders, grotesque-looking bugs that prey on other spiders, are…

Mars rovers find evidence of violent history

Nearly two years after Nasa’s twin rovers parachuted to Mars, a Jekyll-and-Hyde picture is emerging about the planet’s past and whether it could have supported life. Both Spirit…

Bam! Nasa’s Deep Impact to blow a hole in a comet

Nasa hopes to give astronomers their first peek at the inside of a comet by blasting a stadium-sized hole through one of the heavenly bodies. If all goes as planned, the Deep…