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With a $621,000 award from NASA, University of Massachusetts Amherst microbiologist James Holden will dedicate the next three years to “predicting” the nature of life on Europa.

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Scientists can tell when a volcano is about to erupt by looking at the vegetation around and its colour.

However, an AVO report on May 29 found that while “low-level unrest continues, no changes have been observed in the monitoring data to indicate that the volcano is moving closer to an eruption.” ...

The volcano, known as Axial Seamount, is more than 4,900 feet beneath the Pacific Ocean and 300 miles off the Oregon coast, but it is showing signs it will soon erupt for the first time since 2015.

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Uturuncu, a Bolivian ‘zombie volcano’ that hasn’t erupted in more than 250,000 years, has shown signs of life. But scientists don’t think those signs spell trouble.