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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
Who will live to be over 100?
Centenarians like world's oldest person Misao Okawa, who is 116 on March 5, epitomize our fears about growing old, says aging researcher Avi Roy
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
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
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
‘Impossible’ shots of Milky Way over city in new video
"This movie aims to ... inspire more astrophotographers residing in heavily light polluted cities to unveil the beauty of the elusive Milky Way galaxy." - Justin Ng
March 1, 2014
Can Hubble Space Telescope observe Earth?
What if you could point the Hubble Space Telescope downward, toward Earth. What would it see?
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
No new moon for February 2014
In nearly all months, the moon goes through all four major phases - new, first quarter, full, last quarter. February 2014 doesn't have a new moon.
February 28, 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
