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The chain fountain video is amazing
It's looks like a magic trick, but it's really a problem in the physics of everyday things.
Deborah Byrd
March 6, 2014
Shark studies go electronic
Shark-cams, sensors, electronic pills reveal sharks' secrets.
Editors of EarthSky
March 6, 2014
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.
Deborah Byrd
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.
Deborah Byrd
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.
Deborah Byrd
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.
Editors of EarthSky
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.
Editors of EarthSky
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.
Editors of EarthSky
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.
Editors of EarthSky
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.
Editors of EarthSky
March 4, 2014
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