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Lightning flashes leaked to space resemble atmospheric heartbeart

A global electromagnetic resonance created by the combined lightning storms across our planet.

Superstorm Sandy tracked by European Space Agency water mission

When bracing for the onslaught of extreme weather, as much information as possible is needed to predict the strength of the impending storm.

Meet Xenoceratops: Canada’s newest horned dinosaur

Scientists have named a new species of horned dinosaur (ceratopsian) from Alberta, Canada.

New method could help communities plan for climate risk

MIT researchers develop tool to assess regional risks of climate change, potential impacts on local infrastructure and planning

Two aerial photos show Jersey coast before and after Hurricane Sandy

Two aerial photographs show a portion of the New Jersey coast before and after Hurricane Sandy.

Clever cockatoo with skilled craftmanship

The Goffin's cockatoo's use and fashioning of objects as tools has rarely been seen in the animal kingdom.

Taking the pulse of volcanoes using satellite images

Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) helps to show ‘inflation’ in advance of volcanic eruptions in Indonesia.

Reindeer see a twilight world in UV light

The UV light that causes snow blindness in humans is life-saving for reindeer in the Arctic.

Solar system’s birth record revised

Some 4.567 billion years ago, our solar system’s planets spawned from an expansive disc of gas and dust rotating around the sun. While similar processes are witnessed in younger solar systems throughout the Milky Way, the formative stages of our own solar system were believed to have taken twice as long to occur. Now, new research lead by the Centre for Star and Planet Formation at the Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, suggests otherwise. Indeed, our solar system is not quite as special as once believed.

Super-rare, super-luminous supernovae are likely explosion of universe’s earliest stars

International team observes the most-distant, super-luminous supernovae found to date.

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