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Parkfield, San Andreas, and the quest for a 'crystal ball' for predicting earthquakes before they happenA small town in California was hit by earthquakes once every 22 years for over a century, setting the stage for a major seismic experiment in the 1980s and 90s. But the quake ended up being 11 years late. In this excerpt from "When Worlds Quake," geophysicist Hrvoje Tkalčić looks at why predicting earthquakes is so difficult.
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'Torn apart by the darkness': What would happen if a human fell into a black hole?What would a human see and feel while falling into a black hole? In this exclusive excerpt of his new book, "Facing Infinity," author and astrophysicist Jonas Enander tells us in terrifying detail.
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'A force more powerful than gravity within the Earth': How magnetism locked itself inside our planet"As the magma cooled to form what is today the world's solid outer crust, magnetism was locked into minerals containing iron, such as magnetite."
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'Parasitic provider of sperm on-tap': Why the sex lives of deep sea creatures demand extreme solutionsFrom the opportunistic "have-a-go" approach of octopuses to "accessory males" that supply female anglerfish with a lifetime of sperm, author Jon Copley explores the sex lives of deep sea creatures.
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Book Excerpt: 'Surviving Death' (US 2017)In "Surviving Death," Leslie Kean reveals stunning and wide-ranging evidence suggesting that consciousness survives death.
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Book Excerpt: 'Are Numbers Real?' (US 2016)In "Are Numbers Real?," author Brian Clegg explores the way that math has become more and more detached from reality, and yet despite this is driving the development of modern physics.
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Book Excerpt: 'Full Fathom Five: Ocean Warming and a Father's Legacy'An excerpt from Gordon Chaplin's book "Full Fathom Five: Ocean Warming and a Father's Legacy."
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