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Investigation · Earthquakes  ·  Seismologists have tested since the 1890s whether the Moon sets off earthquakes. Across 4,729 of the world's largest quakes over 53 years, we find no lunar fingerprint, ruling out any big global effect, though a smaller one could still hide below the noise.

Investigation · Severe Weather  ·  The viral map says Tornado Alley is sliding east at 10 to 20 km a year. Seventy-six years of strong-tornado records say the center of activity is creeping southeast at about a third of that speed, as the Great Plains empty and the Southeast fills in.

Investigation · Space Weather  ·  We compared 71 days of DSCOVR solar-wind readings with Earth's storm index. The storm response starts within an hour and peaks four to eight hours after the driving begins.

Investigation · Space Weather  ·  We pooled thousands of decaying Starlinks into one drag sensor and aimed it at a moderate geomagnetic storm. The fleet decay rate nudged the right way but cannot separate from its own day-to-day scatter. An honest null from a working instrument.

Investigation · Cross-Match  ·  9,379 US M ≥ 4.5 earthquakes (1910–2014) against 71,008 NUFORC sightings. The folklore predicts clustering near epicenters; we observe 3 coincidences where 9.4 are expected by chance.

Investigation · Cross-Match  ·  On the 10 days when crew tweets pin the filming calendar, no public sensor records a concurrent anomaly.

Near-Earth Objects  ·  AMS reported eyewitness fireball counts running 3.9σ above normal in early 2026. NASA's CNEOS sensor catalog (357 deduplicated events, 1998–2026) says no — and rejects the AMS-equivalent effect at p = 0.015 against the modern-sensor baseline.

Seismology  ·  Japan Trench, May 15, 2026. Zero M4+ events in the 30-day pre-window. Statistically independent of the M7.4 twenty-five days earlier.

Meteorology  ·  9.6M GOES-16 GLM flashes at 4 spatial scales. V3 signal recovers at k_min = −270 min via SPC timestamps but vanishes at every GLM-triggered scale. QRN + cell-local D-layer: disfavored.

Meteorology  ·  Oklahoma 2024 joins Mayfield 2021 as a second clean replication. Outbreak-vs-dose Δd is not Bonferroni-significant. Precursor is general to any tornadic convection.

Seismology  ·  M6.0 + M5.9 south of the Kermadec Islands, April 16-18. Bath's law rejected at p = 0.006. Statistically a doublet, not an aftershock sequence.

Meteorology  ·  Mayfield 2021 replicates the 40m tornado precursor at k_min = −270 min. Pooled Fisher p = 1.12 × 10⁻⁴. 2011-2013 events are null by measurement density, not by signal absence.

Meteorology  ·  A 10-day CONUS WSPR study finds HF signal depression that begins 165 min before confirmed tornadoes, scales with D-layer physics, and survives a forecaster-lag control. N = 106 tornado events.

Fact-Check · Seismology  ·  23 events off Washington — 400 km west of the subduction trench, on a different fault system entirely.

Research · Pre-Registered Null  ·  We locked the methods, pulled 5.3M WSPR spots and 934K aircraft positions, and ran the test. Every bin had an aircraft. The control group was empty. Here's what a null result can still tell you.

Breaking · Seismology  ·  47 events in hours — Walker Lane seismic zone lights up with the strongest quake near Reno in decades.

Research  ·  Two complete solar cycles of WSPR data say the 10 m band gets worse at solar maximum. The textbooks aren't wrong — the metric is. Inside a clean selection-effect bug.

Solar Watch  ·  G2 storm, M7.5 flare, 9 CMEs, and our first cosmic ray Forbush decrease — all in 3 days. We tracked it across 7 data streams. The comet CMEs missed Earth.

Investigation  ·  80,000 UFO reports cross-referenced against fireballs, storms, and 10,000 Starlink satellites.