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How do we balance needs of energy, water, and climate?
A new MIT study underscores the need to examine trade-offs before choosing energy technologies.
November 15, 2013
Comet ISON: What’s next?
Comet ISON is a first-time visitor from the Oort Cloud surrounding our solar system. Will it survive its November 28 brush with the sun and emerge as a bright comet?
November 15, 2013
Scientists track new giant iceberg
Experts are watching an enormous iceberg that is separating from the Antarctica continent. Roughly the size of Manhattan, the iceberg could threaten shipping lanes.
November 14, 2013
Computer model offers daily forecasts of wildfire growth
Updated with new observations every 12 hours, the computer model predicts critical details such as the extent of the blaze and changes in its behavior.
November 14, 2013
Your brain sees things you don’t
Our brains process visual input that we never consciously perceive. A study challenges currently accepted models about how the brain processes visual information.
November 13, 2013
Oldest big cat fossil ever found
Four-million-year-old skull of relative of snow leopard fleshes out fossil record of big cats and challenges suppositions about how and where they evolved
November 13, 2013
NASA Cassini spacecraft provides new view of Saturn and Earth
The image sweeps 404,880 miles (651,591 km) across Saturn and its inner ring system. Plus you can see Venus, Mars and Earth.
November 12, 2013
Deadly tropical cyclone hit Somalia on November 10-11
Even as the devastating impact of Typhoon Haiyan began to emerge in the Philippines, Somalia too experienced one of the deadliest tropical cyclones in its history
November 12, 2013
Waste could help fuel low carbon energy and transport
"The type of fuels must change, and we have to reverse the trend of increasing traffic volumes; but that doesn’t mean the way we transport ourselves has to change drastically.” - Göran Finnveden
November 11, 2013
View from space: The sun flares up
The sun emitted a significant solar flare that peaked at 1:14 a.m. EST on Nov. 10, 2013.
November 11, 2013
