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Shark studies go electronic
Shark-cams, sensors, electronic pills reveal sharks' secrets.
March 6, 2014
Monster black hole spins at half the speed of light
Light speed is about 300,000 kilometers per second (186,000 miles per second), so this black hole is spinning almost unbelievably fast.
March 5, 2014
Watch March come in like a lion over eastern U.S.
Satellite video captures the awesome power of the winter storms that hit the eastern U.S. on the first days of March.
March 5, 2014
Rising seas threaten world cultural sites, says study
Statue of Liberty, Independence Hall, Tower of London and Sydney Opera House are among sites that could be lost to rising seas if current global warming trend continues.
March 5, 2014
Horses found competing with endangered pandas for bamboo
At the Wolong Nature Reserve for endangered pandas, horses belonging to farmers were found grazing on bamboo, the pandas' only food source.
March 5, 2014
Rocket launched straight into aurora
A NASA-funded sounding rocket launched straight into an aurora over Venetie, Alaska, on March 3, 2014.
March 4, 2014
Every red dwarf star has at least one planet, says new study
Red dwarfs make up at least three quarters of the stars in the universe. A new study suggests that virtually all red dwarfs have planets orbiting them.
March 4, 2014
Spiral galaxy spills blood and guts
The streaks emanating from this galaxy are hot young stars, encased in wispy streams of gas torn away from the galaxy as it moves through space.
March 4, 2014
Did first Americans live thousands of years on Bering Land Bridge?
A flurry of studies suggests that this lost world could have been an ice age haven, dotted with game and wildflowers, for both animals and humans.
March 4, 2014
Great Lakes are mostly frozen
Ice cover on North America’s Great Lakes reached 88 percent in mid-February 2014, levels not observed since 1994.
February 27, 2014
