In new #AGUPubs research, scientists investigate how heating in Europa’s mantle affects its icy outer layer.

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On International Day of #HumanSpaceFlight , we celebrate the stellar feats of the past and look to the future. The era of human spaceflight began today in 1961 when Yuri Gagarin became the first person in space.

Looking ahead, we're going back to the Moon with NASA Artemis!

Are you a monolith or part of a cool conglomerate? Find out what rock formation you are with our 7-question personality quiz. bit.ly/RockOnPersonal…

Stone Age humans could have been the first geologists! A new study reports that 70 kyr ago, humans understood the properties of rocks, including which type would be most beneficial for different tasks and tools.

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The expected rapid transition from El Niño to La Niña this summer adds significant uncertainty to wildfire forecasts for 2024.

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You’ve heard of acid rain, but what about iron snow? New research shows that this phenomenon in planetary cores could affect magnetic field formation.

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Read more in the April issue of Eos: bit.ly/Eos-Apr2024

Does a fault’s maturity or its orientation play a bigger role in the size of an earthquake? New @AGUAdvances work finds an unexpected answer.

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Don't miss this splinter session at #EGU24 !

GeoLatinas' #GeoTraductores initiative is behind Eos en Español, un recurso excelente para acercar la geociencia a más gente.

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There’s a lot of math behind the scenes of ocean modeling.

A new #AGUPubs paper presents a suite of cases to verify some of these underlying numerical methods. Research by Los Alamos National Laboratory, Florida State University, Scientific Computing, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), MIT EAPS, FluidNumerics.

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Mt. Etna's smoke rings have us revisiting one of our favorite Eos personality quizzes: What kind of ring are you? (Planetary? Tree? One to Rule Them All? etc.)

Find out here: bit.ly/3xRsvWV

Email threads in academia 🤝 the Cascadia megathrust

Limiting climate warming using solid-particle injection might have fewer side effects than some methods, but could also do more harm than good, researchers say.

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Read more in the April issue of Eos: bit.ly/Eos-Apr2024

US sets first standard to curb 'forever chemicals' from drinking water reut.rs/3xwHBo2 reut.rs/3xwHBo2

Did you know open areas of water surrounded by Antarctic sea ice are called polynyas? New research has found they appear to fluctuate on a 16-year cycle.

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New work by Dr. Chris Milliner Tianjin University Yann Klinger in @AGUAdvances shows that a fault’s orientation relative to seismic stress may have a greater effect on earthquake characteristics than researchers realized.

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