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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
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
Phone app measures night sky brightness
Help scientists create a global map of night sky brightness with the Dark Sky Meter app on your smartphone.
March 3, 2014
Listen to the whales of the Bering Strait
The Arctic is home to a growing number of whales and ships, and to populations of sub-Arctic whales that are expanding their territory into newly ice-free Arctic waters.
March 3, 2014
Major winter storm poised to wallop U.S. Mid-Atlantic
Large amounts of snow to cities including Baltimore, Maryland and Washington, D.C. area on March 2 and 3, according to NOAA's National Weather Service.
March 2, 2014
Video: How wolves change rivers
Do yourself a favor and watch this video on how wolves change rivers. It will make you happy.
February 28, 2014
Major storm slamming California
Not just California. While meteorological spring begins on March 1, a large portion of the United States will still be under old man winter's wrath.
February 28, 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
Fukushima radiation reaches Canadian waters
Radiation from Japan's leaking Fukushima nuclear power plant has reached ocean waters offshore Canada, researchers said on February 24.
February 26, 2014
This zircon crystal is oldest known piece of Earth’s crust
A tiny zircon crystal found on a sheep station - or ranch - in western Australia is now the oldest known piece of our planet, dating to 4.4 billion years ago.
February 26, 2014
