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Sending Roman off (to space!) (opens the original)
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At the end of last month, I found myself on the NASA Causeway, this little strip of land across the Banana River, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. It was 4 a.m., well over 80 degrees already. And there were thousands of people all around, sitting in lawn chairs and on blankets and on top of their parked cars. They were NASA employees, their friends and families.Everyone was looking out over the dark water to a big white rocket with two boosters, lit up by floodlights on the pad at Laun
A source so good, he became a profile (opens the original)
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Last summer, while I was in Alaska following a “rogue” geologist for a National Geographic magazine feature, I met a man I knew I had to profile. His name is Phil Gordon. Phil’s a 77-year-old retired librarian who lives in a dry cabin at the very edge of a 247-foot cliff outside of Homer, Alaska. He’s good friends with the geologist I was following around, Hig. And buried on his property is an experimental extensometer called a Roger Bilham instrument, which m
Telling the story of NASA's newest space telescope (opens the original)
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We now live on unstable ground (opens the original)
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Finding news stories within bigger feature topics (opens the original)
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I’ve recently been drawn to stories around a theme: the ways in which the land itself, the Earth’s surface, the very ground under our feet, is increasingly destabilizing under climate change. Most people think about climate change as a problem in the atmosphere, maybe the ocean. That’s how it started. But the Earth’s fluid and solid layers constantly interact — and have for millions of years. Now, in many ways, it’s falling apart. I’m working on a piece that makes that argument explicitly with e
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