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Jorge Salazar

Robot sub, alien life, Jupiter’s moon

A self-guided robotic submarine, designed to look for alien life on an icy moon of Jupiter, completed 6 months of tests in an Antarctic lake here on Earth.

The moon went from interesting to fascinating

Pendleton, the new director of NASA's Lunar Science Institute, says that moon is our nearest laboratory off-planet where we can go and explore and test.

Early human hunters might have changed climate

A study links early hunters with animal extinctions and climate change, 15,000 years ago. Read more about early human hunters.

PTSD in war veterans

Post traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, affects up to 30% of soldiers returning from Iraq, according to a June 2010 study by Army medical researchers.

Hydrogen as fuel for future cars

Hydrogen should be a fuel for the car of the future, according to a June 2010 report by the U.S. National Research Council.

Sally Gold on awards for small businesses

Sally Gold with Shell Springboard has awarded 43 small businesses across the U.K. to help them to implement ideas to lower greenhouse gas emissions.

World Population Day 2010

On World Population Day 2010, experts are highlighting the concepts of 'everyone counts' and open data with information available to everyone.

Marshall Shepherd: roads and roofs cause floods

Marshall Shepherd says impervious surfaces - roofs, streets, and sidewalks - for recent major floods in Atlanta, Nashville and Oklahoma City.

Poisonous superstorm on alien world

A poisonous 'superstorm' of carbon monoxide gas on an alien world over 150 light years away is discovered by an international team of astronomers.

Hurricane Alex and 2010 hurricane season

Hurricane Alex ushered in what some scientists say might be a busy 2010 Atlantic hurricane season. EarthSky spoke with research climatologist Bill Patzert.