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April 30, 2020

DEBUNKING CHEMTRAIL CONSPIRACY THEORIES

Scientific American

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MESSAGE FROM OUTER SPACE?

news story

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April 05, 2020

Security problems with Zoom online meetings

news story

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September 16, 2019

How to jump from a moving train using science

news story

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Natural monopolies and PG&E's deferred maintenance (cause of the Paradise Fire)

Pete Douglas op-ed

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September 12, 2019

SFO aircraft noise tracker

press release

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September 07, 2019

Pigeon Point Lighthouse: $9M upgrade

news story

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April 11, 2019

SMC seismic hazard zone maps

press release

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April 05, 2019

New Oroville Dam spillways ready to rumble

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December 15, 2018

COMET 46P/WIRTANEN AS SHINY AS A FULL MOON

PRESS RELEASE

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October 30, 2018

COASTSIDE MEDFLIES ERADICATED

NEWS STORY

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August 10, 2018

MEDFLY QUARANTINE CONTINUES

NEWS STORY

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July 13, 2018

MARS APPEARS BIGGER AND BRIGHTER

Mars is approaching Earth for a 15-year close encounter. The Red Planet is now so bright that it is experiencing forms of atmospheric optics normally reserved for objects like the sun and the moon. Recently, an astronomer in Sweden watching Mars witnessed a rare green flash. Visit Spaceweather.com for a video of the phenomenon and more information about the Martian brightening.

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July 09, 2018

FLIGHT ATTENDANTS' RADIATION RISKS

On the heels of a new study showing that flight attendants have an elevated risk of cancer compared to the general population, Spaceweather.com and the students of "Earth to Sky Calculus" recently boarded a plane to New Zealand carrying an array of cosmic ray sensors. During their 13-hour flight across the South Pacific, the team detected secondary cosmic rays in the passenger compartment almost 40 times stronger than on the ground below. Their "haul" of radiation included a significant number of neutrons captured in portable bubble chambers. Read Spaceweather.com for the full story.

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July 05, 2018

GREEN COMET APPROACHES

A comet that could become visible to the naked eye in August has exploded in brightness, suddenly increasing its luminosity 16-fold. Whatever happened on Comet PANSTARRS (C/2017 S3) on July 1 has given it an expanding green atmosphere almost twice the size of the planet Jupiter. Visit Spaceweather.com for pictures and more information about this approaching comet.