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Supermoon over Portugal
Photo by our friend Rui Lopes, taken in Portugal, near his house in a village called Coja in Coimbra region.
June 23, 2013
100,000 may need to evacuate due to floods in Alberta, Canada
Water levels are expected to reach their maximum around noon today in floods in Alberta, Canada, which have left 12 communities under a state of emergency.
June 21, 2013
A revolutionary new 3D digital brain atlas
This is the first ever 3D microstructural model of the entire human brain, and it's publicly available to researchers world-wide at no cost.
June 21, 2013
Alaska has been having a record-breaking heatwave
In Alaska, old records are being crushed as a heatwave has carried temperatures into the 80s and 90s. In one part of Alaska, an unofficial 98°F!
June 21, 2013
Summer solstice sunset in Ireland
A summer solstice sunset at Loughcrew in Ireland, a megalithic burial ground dating back to approximately 3500 and 3300 BC.
June 21, 2013
Hubble spots galaxies in close encounter
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has produced this vivid image of a pair of interacting galaxies known as Arp 142.
June 20, 2013
Tanzania’s birds survive in protected network
As climate change forces birds in Tanzania to head west, protected areas set aside for mammals are keeping them alive.
June 20, 2013
Explore Mars surface yourself: Pan and zoom new billion-pixel view
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity offers armchair explorers the next best thing to being there.
June 19, 2013
Possible record-setting Gulf of Mexico dead zone predicted
Spring floods across the Midwest are expected to contribute to a very large and potentially record-setting 2013 Gulf of Mexico "dead zone", according to researchers.
June 19, 2013
