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Lightning on Saturn found on the day side!
Scientists say this lightning on Saturn is approximately 100 miles (200 kilometers) in diameter when it exits the tops of the clouds.
July 19, 2012
Vijay Modi: Shared Solar power grids brings electricity to isolated African villages
A project called Shared Solar and headed by Vijay Modi has brought cheap electricity to about 20 isolated and poor villages in Uganda and Mali.
July 19, 2012
Exoplanet smaller than Earth, only 33 light-years away
The little exoplanet UCF-1.01 might be the nearest world to our solar system that's smaller than our home planet.
July 18, 2012
Greenland glacier giving birth to massive iceberg
An ice island twice the size of Manhattan is breaking off a Greenland glacier this week. Here are three sequential views from NASA's Aqua satellite.
July 18, 2012
June 2012 was 4th warmest June on record
But for the Northern Hemisphere, where it's summer now, the land and ocean average surface temps for June 2012 hit an all-time recorded high for June.
July 18, 2012
Pioneer anomaly source is heat
The unexpected slowing of NASA's Pioneer 10 and 11 spacecraft turns out to be due to the slight, but detectable effect of heat pushing back on the spacecraft.
July 18, 2012
Ice island twice the size of Manhattan breaks off Greenland glacier
An ice island twice the size of Manhattan broke off Greenland’s Petermann Glacier. It's about half as big as the one that broke off the same glacier in 2010.
July 18, 2012
Giant dinosaurs eating habits revealed
High-tech technology, traditionally usually used to design racing cars and aeroplanes, has helped researchers to understand how plant-eating giant dinosaurs fed 150 million years ago.
July 17, 2012
Three endangered Hawaiian birds show recovery
The Akepa, Akiapolaau and Hawaii Creeper are among rarest endangered Hawaiian birds. After years of habitat protection, the birds may be starting to recover.
July 17, 2012
Weight loss today keeps the doctor away
Statistics show that today, almost one in four Canadians is obese. A deadly trend that has been on the rise for the last thirty years, but weight loss can help.
July 16, 2012
