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- SF-0026 Kīlauea makes hair out of glass, and it blows into people's gutters
- SF-0025 Three federal answers to "which mountain is biggest", and Everest only wins one
- SF-0024 The textbook example of nature in balance is a study whose own researchers say it isn't
- SF-0023 Yellowstone is not overdue, and the recurrence arithmetic gives it another 100,000 years
- SF-0005 NASA published the Face on Mars itself, and called it shadows in the same sentence
- SF-0022 Nobody has settled how Devils Tower formed, and the Park Service says so
- SF-0021 Runoff carries dissolved gypsum into a closed basin, and no river takes it to the sea
- SF-0020 A 30-metre rock made a 1.2-kilometre hole, and a mineral made impact craters recognisable
- SF-0018 The USGS calls 1905 the Salton Sea's most recent formation, not its first
- SF-0017 Lead began Picher's relocation. Collapse risk widened it. A tornado hastened it
- SF-0016 Grand Prismatic's rings are microbial. Its blue centre is physics, not sterility
- SF-0015 The high-five patent treats the high five itself as previously known prior art
- SF-0014 The self-kicking machine patent's stated advance is that it never needs resetting
- SF-0013 The comb-over patent folds three sections of hair over a person's hand
- SF-0012 The laser-pointer cat patent specifies the dot must be small relative to the cat's paw
- SF-0011 The 1868 escape coffin had a bell, a ladder, and a tube you took back afterwards
- SF-0004 A fire has burned under Centralia, Pennsylvania since 1962 — and the state does not claim to know how it started
- SF-0003 The astronaut who took the first confirmed photograph of the Great Wall from orbit could not see the wall
- SF-0002 The stones that move across Death Valley were filmed doing it in 2013
- SF-0001 NASA photographed the “Black Knight” satellite — and catalogues it as space debris