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Flooding tipping points earlier than expected for U.S. coasts
By 2050, most of the U.S. coast is likely to see 30 or more days of flooding a year due to dramatically accelerating impacts from sea level rise, says a new study.
December 29, 2014
Tiny galaxy is Milky Way’s newly-discovered neighbor
A tiny, isolated dwarf galaxy almost 7 million light years away, with only one ten-thousandth of the mass of our Milky Way.
December 26, 2014
Wisdom has a new egg!
Recent photos of Wisdom - the world's oldest known, banded wild bird at an estimated age of 63 - with her newest egg. Go, Wisdom!
December 20, 2014
How birds get by without external ears
A new study looks at how birds localize sounds. It seems that their slightly oval-shaped head transforms sound waves in a similar way to external ears.
December 15, 2014
Genes link birdsong and human speech
Humans and vocal birds like parrots use essentially the same genes to speak.
December 15, 2014
Chickens and turkeys closer to dinos than other birds
Songbirds and other birds sprang from dinosaurs, too. But new work indicates that chickens and turkeys are genetically closest to their dino ancestors.
December 15, 2014
New Horizon spacecraft wakes up for encounter with Pluto system
It's awake! On Saturday, the New Horizons spacecraft came out of hibernation, at the doorstep of Pluto.
December 8, 2014
Does this Martian meteorite contain traces of life?
Researchers say they’ve found evidence of biological activity inside a meteorite from Mars that landed on the Moroccan desert in 2011.
December 3, 2014
Asteroid brushes the Horsehead Nebula
Animation shows the space rock 4451 Grieve as it zips by the famous nebula.
December 3, 2014
