Nicoletta Lanese is a staff writer for Live Science covering health and medicine, along with an assortment of biology, animal, environment and climate stories. She holds degrees in neuroscience and dance from the University of Florida and a graduate certificate in science communication from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her work has appeared in The Scientist Magazine, Science News, The San Jose Mercury News and Mongabay, among other outlets.
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The total solar eclipse on April 8 plunged Syracuse, New York's Milton J. Rubenstein Museum of Science & Technology into darkness for 90 seconds, creating a wondrous and memorable totality.

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An analysis of car crashes during the 2017 solar eclipse in the U.S. suggests the upcoming April eclipse could also come with an uptick in fatal accidents.

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Ancient mammals were better adapted than nonavian dinosaurs to survive the Chicxulub asteroid impact.

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Scientists found a huge field of hydrothermal vents on the East Pacific Rise.

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Scientists debate claims of an ozone hole over the tropics.

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The massive eruption from the underwater Tonga volcano earlier this year generated a blast so powerful, it sent the fastest pressure waves ever observed in our atmosphere rippling around the globe.

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A crescent-shaped crater in Northeast China holds the record as the largest impact crater on Earth that formed in the last 100,000 years.
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The Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano erupted last month.

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Two new studies reveal surprising features of the asteroid Ryugu.

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A new study hints at when and how Earth's first continents appeared.

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The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine say that finding Earth-like worlds should be a priority.

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Thousands of tremors shook the island in the week before the eruption occurred.
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Tropical storm Ida is gaining strength as it barrels through the Caribbean Sea and is expected to be a "dangerous major hurricane" when it slams into the northern Gulf Coast on Sunday (Aug. 29).

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A new experiment recreated Titan in small glass cylinders.
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Scientists studied the acceleration using high-res radar images, captured by satellites.

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The space rock fragments originally came from Vesta, scientists concluded.

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The meteor was spotted at about 10 p.m. local time on April 12.

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Scientists found evidence of the impact on a mountaintop.

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A protoplanet called Theia crashed into Earth 4.5 billion years ago.

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More than one million people lost power in the Houston area.

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A concentration of plasma in the Earth's atmosphere, called the ionosphere, interacts with solar winds, ultraviolet radiation and radio waves.

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Scientists used powerful radar signals to capture the image.

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The mineral likely formed from dust trapped in the ice.
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