Daily Archives: Dec 10, 2025
Why Mexico City’s Runway Near-Miss Is a Wake-Up Call for Global...
"Wow." That single word, captured on an air traffic control recording when Delta Flight 590 attempted its unsuccessful takeoff, encapsulates the collective holding of breath of several hundred passengers and crew members on two planes in Mexico City. At that moment when disaster and salvation were separated by as...
Supershear Rupture Exposed: How CCTV Footage Redefined Earthquake Science
Is it possible for a single security camera to rewrite decades of earthquake science? On March 28, 2025, a magnitude 7.7 earthquake along Myanmar’s Sagaing Fault not only devastated cities but also delivered a seismic breakthrough: the first-ever direct video capture of a strike-slip fault in motion. This rare...
Why TRACERS’ Twin Satellites Could Transform Our Understanding of Space Weather
A tractor in Iowa will deviate by twelve feet or more in the course of a solar storm, not for mechanical reasons, but as a result of the unseen ballet of magnetic fields on the Sun and Earth. The launch of the University of Iowa-led TRACERS mission by NASA...
