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Severe storms blast through central U.S. on Tuesday
More severe weather expected Wednesday through the Ohio/Tennessee Valley region. Damaging wind and large hail. A tornado threat cannot be ruled out.
June 4, 2014
See three planets tonight
Jupiter, Mars, Saturn can all be seen easily on these June evenings.
June 3, 2014
Flying airplanes with mind control
Researchers demonstrate that brain-controlled flight is possible.
May 29, 2014
Crowd-funded project aims to build world’s first simulated organism
It will be the world’s most detailed virtual life form — an accurate, open-source, digital version of a worm called C. elegans.
May 28, 2014
April 2014 tied with warmest on record, or second-warmest
Yes, some of us in North America have been shivering this spring. But our local weather is not the whole story.
May 27, 2014
Tracking foodborne illness with Yelp
A pilot project uses online restaurant reviews to find unreported outbreaks of food poisoning.
May 26, 2014
Camelopardalids? Where is our rain of meteors? Observers report …
Camelopardalids did not put on their predicted show for observers in N. America or Europe, at least. What the heck, astronomers?
May 24, 2014
Everything you need to know: Camelopardalids could be the best meteor shower this year
North America is predicted to have the best view of a possible new meteor shower from Comet 209P/LINEAR Friday night through Saturday morning (May 23-24, 2014). The Camelopardalids, coming up!
May 22, 2014
