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Phil Skemer describes his lab's new rock deformation apparatus (Photo: Sean Garcia/Washington University)

New program offers undergraduate research experiences in rock deformation

The Climate Pod's Halloween special: Frankenstein and climate change with Michael Wysession

Science research roundup: October 2021

Wysession at AGU

Geoscientists call for immediate collective action on climate crisis

The earthquake, which was part of a series of deep aftershocks, struck hundreds of miles beneath Japan's Bonin Islands, shown here. Photo by FLPA, Alamy Stock Photo

National Geographic: Deepest earthquake ever detected struck 467 miles beneath Japan

Lunar samples from the Chang'e-5 mission at the Institute of Geology and Geophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, October 15, 2021. Jin Liwang/Xinhua/Getty Images

Business Insider: China brought Moon samples from ancient volcanic eruptions

Anna "Kay" Behrensmeyer, standing right, at a field site in Turkana Basin in Northern Kenya with students Andrew Du (standing) and Amelia Villasenor. Photo by David Patterson

Digging deep

Pathfinder Fellows recently canoed the Mississippi River with Big Muddy Adventures. It was part of a project component designed to explore the rivers in, and their impact on, St. Louis. (Photo: Beth Martin)

Hands-on learning to help the planet

A six-metre tall engineering model of the BepiColombo spacecraft is unveiled at the Science Museum in London during a media preview for its new display Mission to Mercury: BepiColombo. (Photo by Kirsty O'Connor/PA Images via Getty Images)

Forbes: ESA’s BepiColombo orbiters fire up instruments on first Mercury flyby

The Chang'e 5 return capsule at its landing site in Inner Mongolia, China, on Dec. 17, 2020. (Image credit: CNSA)

Space.com: Moon rocks brought to Earth by Chinese mission fill key gaps in solar system history

Nothing like Chang'e-5 had been tried since the Soviet Luna-24 mission in 1976 (Photo: CNSA)

BBC: China's Moon mission returned youngest ever lavas

Chang’e-5 samples reveal key age of moon rocks