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Looking for meteorites in Antarctica
One-minute video on searching the Antarctic ice sheet for meteorites from outer space.
December 9, 2015
Strong earthquake off Indonesia’s Ambon island
USGS reports a 6.9-magnitude quake this morning - a strong earthquake - in the ocean near Indonesia's Ambon Island. Why this region is prone to strong earthquakes.
December 9, 2015
Vast river network once flowed across Sahara
Scientists have captured amazing new radar images of a paleoriver network underneath the desert sands of the Sahara.
December 8, 2015
End of 2015 hurricane season
Below-normal Atlantic hurricane season, but active eastern and central Pacific season shatters records.
December 7, 2015
Greenland icy, not green, when colonized?
A new study questions the popular notion that 10th-century Vikings were able to colonize Greenland because of unusually warm weather.
December 7, 2015
Two powerful volcanos erupted this week
Europe's Mount Etna and Nicaragua's Momotombo both erupted spectacularly in this first week of December, 2015.
December 4, 2015
Ice loss benefits Adélie penguins, for now
Over the past 14,000 years, penguin numbers in East Antarctica increased 135-fold because of disappearing glaciers and sea ice. How long can populations keep growing?
December 2, 2015
Lifeform of the week: Horseshoe crab
If the horseshoe crab looks like it comes from another era, that's because it does.
December 1, 2015
Wisdom is back again!
Wisdom - world’s oldest living, banded, wild bird - has returned to Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge. She's 64 years old and a symbol of hope and inspiration.
November 30, 2015
Army ants build living bridges
If a gap interrupts a swarm of army ants, they build a 'living bridge' using their own bodies. How? New research says ants perform a collective computation.
November 30, 2015
