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Play new NASA game: Extreme Planet Makeover
You can build your own planet, but will it support life?
January 13, 2011
Good at video games? Illinois researchers could have predicted that, by imaging your brain
Illinois researchers studied 34 people who - after having their brains imaged - each spent 20 hours learning to play a video game called Space Fortress.
January 13, 2011
Super-massive black holes began growing when universe was very young
The most massive black holes began growing at a very fast rate when the universe was only about 1.2 billion years old, according to a new study by astronomers in Tel Aviv.
January 13, 2011
Foxes use Earth’s magnetic field to jump on prey
Foxes are the first animals thought to use Earth's magnetic field to judge distance, not just direction.
January 13, 2011
Poverty can keep kids from reaching genetic potential
A new study suggests that growing up in poverty can suppress a kid's potential to demonstrate their smarts, even before age two. Read more about genetic potential.
January 12, 2011
Garbage soup, not garbage patch, in our oceans
Angelicque White says it's a dilute garbage soup, not a garbage patch, in our oceans. But plastic can be found in across an area bigger than Texas.
January 12, 2011
See the night sky in biggest-ever image
A new image from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey consists of 1.2 trillion pixels and covers a third of the night sky. It captures half a billion individual stars and galaxies.
January 11, 2011
Toowoomba flash floods sweep away cars. See video
Watch this dramatic video of cars swept away Toowoomba flash floods. This city in Queensland, Australia, suffered 6 inches of rain in 30 minutes.
January 11, 2011
1st global online science fair launched by Google
Google Science Fair gives budding scientists ages 13 - 18 the chance to show their work on an international and virtual stage. Read about the online science fair.
January 11, 2011
E. O. Wilson: Science is an adventure, and you can participate
EarthSky’s 600+ Global Science Advisors selected E. O. Wilson as EarthSky’s Science Communicator of the Year for 2010. EarthSky visited Wilson in Boston in late 2010 and captured him on video.
January 11, 2011
