Quad-State Tornado May Be Longest-Lasting Ever

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December 14, 2021

Weather Quad-State Tornado May Be Longest-Lasting Ever Why some tornadoes are able to travel so far and persist so long By Stephanie Pappas

Climate Change Troubling Signs of Key Antarctic Glacier Retreat Emerge Some of the forces keeping Thwaites Glacier stable are starting to unravel By Chelsea Harvey,E&E News

Geology Being LGBT in Geoscience Is like Being Invisible For a field of science long recognizing the need for diversity, geoscience has moved at a glacial pace to achieve it By Sudeep Kanungo,Anne Barrow

Climate Change As Forests Burn, A Climate Puzzle Materializes in the Far North A 15-year study of where carbon lies in boreal forests has unearthed a surprising finding. By Emily Schwing | 08:47

Engineering Top Ten Emerging Tech of 2021 The World Economic Forum and Scientific American team up to highlight technological advances that could change the world--from self-fertilizing crops, on-demand drug manufacturing, breath-sensing diagnostics to 3D-printed houses. By Robin Pomeroy,Sophie Bushwick | 39:47

Weather Why the Southern U.S. Is Prone to December Tornadoes The ingredients that come together to produce such storms make nighttime tornadoes more common in the region By Alisa Hass,Kelsey Ellis,The Conversation US

Mental Health COVID Is Driving a Children's Mental Health Emergency Deaths of parents and other terrible experiences have hurt hundreds of thousands, so new initiatives are trying to help families in pain By Julia Hotz

Animals Movie-Making Tech Reveals Elephant Trunk Motions The pachyderms build simple actions into complex movements By Susan Cosier

Evolution New Clues about the Origins of Biological Intelligence A common solution is emerging in two different fields: developmental biology and neuroscience By Rafael Yuste,Michael Levin

Basic Chemistry Mammoth Tusk Reveals Ancient Mammal's Travels Chemical analyses showed an individual mammoth made an epic journey across Alaska By Tess Joosse,Beth Zaiken,Jen Christiansen

Weather Rare December Tornado Outbreak Was a 'Worst-Case Scenario' The deadly storms are likely to be the 19th billion-dollar disaster to hit the U.S. in 2021 By Thomas Frank,E&E News

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FROM THE ARCHIVE See Ominous Supercell Storm Clouds as They Barrel across the U.S. These storms can unleash hail, lighting and—most notoriously—tornadoes By Leslie Nemo | August 2021

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