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It’s official: 2012 was warmest year for the United States
NCDC finally made it official and announced that 2012 was the warmest year ever recorded in the contiguous United States.
January 9, 2013
Herschel intercepts asteroid Apophis
SA’s Herschel space observatory made new observations of asteroid Apophis as it approached Earth this weekend. The data shows the asteroid to be bigger than first estimated, and less reflective.
January 9, 2013
This date in science: Daguerreotype photography made public
On January 9, 1839, the French Academy of Sciences announced Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre's daguerreotype photography process to the world.
January 9, 2013
Amazon’s diversity loss shows up in the soil
Researchers worry that a loss of genetic variation in microbial communities in the Amazon’s converted agricultural land could negatively affect the entire ecosystem.
January 9, 2013
First bone of the Milky Way identified
Astronomers have identified a new structure in the Milky Way: a long tendril of dust and gas that they are calling a "bone."
January 8, 2013
Bats do it, bonobos do it (share food, that is)
Some animals get by with a little help from their friends, while others rely on the kindness of strangers.
January 8, 2013
Asteroid Apophis to sweep closely past Earth on January 9, 2013
At present, there's a remote chance that Apophis will strike us in 2036. It's expected to drop to zero after the early 2013 pass of Apophis near Earth.
January 8, 2013
Scientists mimic fireflies to make brighter LEDs
The nighttime twinkling of fireflies has inspired scientists to modify a light-emitting diode (LED) so it is more than one and a half times as efficient as the original.
January 8, 2013
Traffic jam of moons in habitable zone
Volunteers from the Planethunters.org website have discovered 15 new planet candidates orbiting in the habitable zones of other stars.
January 7, 2013
Exocomets may be as common as exoplanets
The discovery of six likely comets around distant stars suggests that comets -- dubbed "exocomets" -- are just as common in other stellar systems with planets.
January 7, 2013
