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In supershear quakes, the rupture moves faster than the shear waves, which produces more energy in a shorter time, making supershears unusually destructive ...

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An illustration of the InSight Lander.

As the NASA InSight Mars lander successfully touched down on Monday, November 26, 2018, UCLA faculty Chris Russell, Peter Chi ...

Join us for an engaging presentation and Q&A with UCLA EPSS Professor David Paige. Professor Paige is the Principal Investigator of an instrument on NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter that has been mapping the Moon continuously ...

EPSS Professor Margaret G. Kivelson has been awarded the 2019 Gold Medal, which is the Royal Astronomical Society's highest honor. The Gold Medal, which can be awarded for any reason but usually recognizes lifetime achievement ...

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Teachers receive free instructions, lesson plans and videos for experiments on climate, oceans and atmosphere

Children and adults view an experiment using ...

The Fall 2018 edition of the EPSS newsletter is available online. It includes many stories that describe our activities over the past few months. Happy reading!  The Fall 2017, Fall 2016, and previous editions ...

Plate tectonics, natural disasters, and the evolution of planet Earth

A free public talk by UCLA EPSS Distinguished Alumnus Dave Bercovici

EPSS Professor Margaret G. Kivelson has been awarded the 2019 Jean Dominique Cassini Medal of the European Geosciences Union (EGU). The EGU website describes the award as follows: "The Jean Dominique Cassini Medal & Honorary ...

EPSS has been a co-organizer of the annual, family-friendly science festival since its inception.  Consult the EYU website for program and directions.