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New England hit by unprecedented snowfall late October 2011
The snow shattered records in New England this past weekend, in what will likely be known as the Halloween Snowstorm of 2011.
October 31, 2011
NASA in final preparations for large asteroid flyby November 8
NASA will be tracking 2005 YU55 with antennas of the Deep Space Network in California as the asteroid flies closer than the moon's distance on November 8, 2011.
October 30, 2011
October 30 successful Soyuz rocket launch is good news for ISS
The successful launch of the Soyuz rocket on October 30, 2011 means the International Space Station won't go unmanned, as some had feared.
October 30, 2011
Joel Cohen: Top 10 key population trends on Earth with 7 billion
How can we understand a world with 7 billion people? Population expert Joel Cohen explains the top population trends on a planet with 7 billion inhabitants.
October 30, 2011
World of 7 billion: What’s your number?
On October 31, 2011, the world population reached 7 billion people. Check out the "What's your number" calculators and find out your place.
October 30, 2011
Antarctic killer whales appear to rejuvenate skin in tropics
NOAA researchers report the first long-distance migration of a killer whale. The brief trips of killer whales to tropical waters may assist with skin rejuvenation.
October 30, 2011
Nebula NGC 281 dazzles in the infrared
Imagery from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) highlights erosion by a young star cluster in nebula NGC 281.
October 29, 2011
Science this week – October 29, 2011
Science news for the week ending October 29, 2011 from EarthSky.
October 29, 2011
Survival of the fit, fast and persistent?
Climate variability adds another hurdle for amphibian species trying to migrate to more suitable habitats to escape the impacts of global warming.
October 28, 2011
Hal Levison on Saturn’s weird moon Iapetus
"Iapetus is one of the weirdest things in the solar system, said Levision, "and as we study it more and more, it gets weirder and weirder."
October 28, 2011
