Climate
Cities are learning to design for compound heat
Tree cover helps, but street geometry and nighttime cooling decide who remains at risk.
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Earth Systems
Faint signals of change in the deep Atlantic
A coordinated sensor network is separating long cycles from structural shifts.
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Natural Hazards
A better way to read a fault before the shaking arrives
Fiber-optic sensing turns ordinary telecom cables into dense seismic arrays.
Materials
Concrete that stores more carbon than it emits clears a crucial test
Mineralized aggregates may turn a heavy-emitting material into part of the solution.
Physics
Quantum sensors are beginning to map the hidden architecture of Earth
A new generation of instruments can detect minute changes in gravity — and reveal what lies beneath cities, volcanoes and ice sheets.
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The bridge that reports its own condition
A live digital twin combines strain, weather and traffic data to prioritize inspections.
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