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What happens if the sun disappears?
Some things that would happen here on Earth if our giant source of heat and light were to vanish from the sky, and how long it would take.
November 19, 2016
China’s new feathered Mud Dragon dino
A Chinese construction crew unearthed a new dinosaur fossil. It had feathers and a beak. A scientist called it "one of the most beautiful, but saddest, fossils I’ve ever seen."
November 15, 2016
2016 likely hottest year on record
It'll be the hottest year on record unless the final weeks of 2016 are the coldest of the 21st century so far, according to the World Meteorological Organization.
November 15, 2016
Quake and aftershocks rock New Zealand
A powerful earthquake has struck New Zealand’s South Island, causing tsunami waves, landsides, many aftershocks and leaving 2 dead.
November 13, 2016
Decline of Arctic’s thickest sea ice
The Arctic's multi-year sea ice - ice that survives the summer melt - is weaker and there's less of it. Satellite images show the difference between 1984 and now.
November 8, 2016
Mount Hekla was called Gateway to Hell
Mount Hekla is Iceland’s 3rd most active volcano. A large eruption in 1104 earned it the moniker Gateway to Hell. Is Mount Hekla overdue for another eruption?
November 1, 2016
Science fights to control fire ants
Thinking of the ant colony as a superorganism, entomologist Patricia Pietrantonio is searching for the master regulator genes that may help control them.
October 30, 2016
6.6-magnitude earthquake rocks Italy
Felt in Rome, it's the strongest earthquake to hit Italy in 36 years and the largest in an on-going sequence of damaging earthquakes in Italy in 2016.
October 30, 2016
Huge new Antarctic marine reserve
The new Antarctic safe zone in the Ross Sea will encompass 600 thousand square miles (1.5 million square km) and be the largest marine protected area in the world.
October 28, 2016
2nd massive ice avalanche in Tibet
"Even one of these gigantic glacier avalanches is very unusual. Two within close geographical and temporal vicinity is, to our best knowledge, unprecedented."
October 27, 2016
