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Where in the U.S. you’re most likely to be struck by lightning
One moment you're strolling across the golf course. The next moment your body is wracked with the searing pain of 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit.
March 6, 2014
Lightning, seen from space
NASA routinely studies lightning space to aid in weather forecasting. A new instrument is being planning for a 2016 launch.
March 6, 2014
Watch online as asteroid sweeps within moon’s distance today
Watch online as asteroid 2014 DX110 sweep closer than the moon on Wednesday, March 5.
March 5, 2014
Watch March come in like a lion over eastern U.S.
Satellite video captures the awesome power of the winter storms that hit the eastern U.S. on the first days of March.
March 5, 2014
Rising seas threaten world cultural sites, says study
Statue of Liberty, Independence Hall, Tower of London and Sydney Opera House are among sites that could be lost to rising seas if current global warming trend continues.
March 5, 2014
Horses found competing with endangered pandas for bamboo
At the Wolong Nature Reserve for endangered pandas, horses belonging to farmers were found grazing on bamboo, the pandas' only food source.
March 5, 2014
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
