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Technology: Probing Earthquake Faults From the Sky
The San Francisco Chronicle reported that researchers hope to improve earthquake forecasting thanks to new NASA radar studies of California's two most dangerous earthquake faults, the Hayward and the San Andreas.
In other technology news, the Washington Post looked at the relationship between humans and their automated systems in the context of the recent collision of two Metro Red Line trains.
Arranging the world's species into branches on a "tree of life" could help biologists understand how life evolved. Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have developed new tree-building software that experts say could expand the tree of life and change our understanding of evolution.
And, finally, researchers reported that an electronic nose is proving so sensitive that it can identify which barrel a particular wine came from by analyzing the complex mix of thousands of compounds found in each bottle.
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