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At least 10 tornadoes were reported overnight in the mid-west of the United States, hitting towns in the states of Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, and Kentucky. Storms are moving east, and the tornado threat continues.

Every four years, we have an extra day in the month of February. Why?

Images of a martian landscape offer evidence that the Red Planet’s surface not only can shake like the surface of Earth, but has done so relatively recently.

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