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September 26, 2012

Singing whales and Noah’s flood: Summer stories you may have missed

twin planets what you missed over the summer
This image by Frank Melchior (frankacaba.com) and adapted by Eric Agol of the UW accompanied the story about UW and Harvard researchers discovering two planets locked in a sort of orbital tug-of-war about 1,200 light years from Earth. It depicts the view one might have if Earth was the smaller of those two planets. Photo: Adapted from Frank Melchior / NASA images

From reports on new planets and extinction theories to singing whales, cloud geoengineering, American megachurches and ethical computer hacking, UW News and Information published some interesting stories over the too-short summer of 2012.

Did you miss some of them? Here’s another chance 鈥� our top 10 most read stories of the summer.

: James Wellman, associate professor of American religion, with co-authors Katie Corcoran and Kate Stockly-Meyerdirk.

: Thomas Tobin, doctoral student in Earth and space sciences, with faculty members Peter Ward and Eric Steig.

: Rob Wood, assistant professor, atmospheric sciences.

: The UW student club Washington Open Object Fabricators; faculty adviser Mark Ganter, professor of mechanical engineering.

: Eric Agol, professor of astronomy.

: Kate Stafford, oceanographer.

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: Yoshi Kohno, associate professor of computer science and engineering, with doctoral student Tamara Denning.

: Liliana Lengua, professor of psychology; Clayton Cook, assistant professor of educational psychology; James Mazza, professor of educational psychology.

David Montgomery, professor of Earth and space sciences.