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Pacific in 2014 looks like record-breaking El Niño year of 1997
Conditions in the Pacific Ocean continue to suggest that a super strong El Niño might be forming in 2014.
May 20, 2014
Why Saturn has auroras
After a three-year observing campaign of Saturn using the Hubble Space Telescope, scientists have confirmed that auroras on Earth and Saturn have a common origin.
May 19, 2014
This is your brain on meditation
The brain processes more thoughts, feelings during meditation than when you are just relaxing, study shows.
May 16, 2014
Dangerous storms peaking further north, south than in the past, says new study
Powerful, destructive hurricanes and typhoons are now reaching their peak intensity farther from the equator and closer to the poles, according to a new analysis.
May 15, 2014
Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is smaller than ever before seen
Jupiter's trademark Great Red Spot — a swirling anticyclonic storm feature larger than Earth — has shrunken to the smallest size ever measured.
May 15, 2014
Astronomers find odd gas giant exoplanet traveling far from its star
The planet is about 2,000 times the Earth-sun distance from its star, a record among exoplanets. That means it takes about 80,000 Earth years for the planet to orbit its star.
May 15, 2014
Report: No radiation from Fukushima detected off US West Coast
No ocean-borne radiation from Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster has yet been detected in analysis of kelp samples along the western U.S. coastline.
May 14, 2014
Magnetars are the most powerful magnets in the universe
Magnetars are the bizarre super-dense remnants of supernova explosions and the strongest magnets known in the universe.
May 14, 2014
Watch two neutron stars rip each other apart to form a black hole
This supercomputer simulation from NASA shows one of the most violent events in the universe: Two neutron stars ripping each other apart to form black hole.
May 13, 2014
Why is West Antarctic ice sheet in irreversible decline?
New studies say that part of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet is now undergoing an "irreversible" decline. The science behind the news, from NASA
May 13, 2014
