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We have all admired the stunning images of Earth from space. But when we are standing in a park or gazing out of a window, ...
Why the U.S. has gotten so dry, so fast — and what could reverse it
It may sound counterintuitive, but this year’s hyperactive hurricane season may have helped fuel the drought across the United States.
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How British College Students Convinced Authorities That Flying Saucers Were Invading the U.K.
To raise awareness for a charity event, aspiring engineers planted six UFOs across southern England on a single day in 1967 ...
Freeze Risks Despite A Warming World: Avoid Million-Dollar Losses
Even with average global temperatures rising, deep freeze is still a very potent risk for Northern Hemisphere businesses.
Google used millions of Android phones to map the worst enemy of GPS
In a paper published this week in Nature, Google researchers demonstrated they were able to use GPS signal measurements ...
Dreaming of snow this winter? Look up the forecast in your area.
Most of the U.S. is expected to see less snow this year, continuing a long-term trend of snowfall decline as global ...
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Earth's Greatest Ice Age Really Did Bring Ice Sheets To The Equator
Immense glaciers once covered the entire Earth, reaching even the equator, geologists have confirmed. The discovery that this ...
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Summary of the Second OMI–TROPOMI Science Team Meeting
TROPOspheric Monitoring Instrument (TROPOMI) Science Team (ST) meeting was held June 3–6, 2024. The meeting used a hybrid ...
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'Indiana Jones And The Great Circle' Deep Dive Shows Off 14 Minutes Of Gameplay - Trailer
Uncover one of history’s greatest mysteries in Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, a first-person, single-player adventure set between the events of Raiders of the Lost Ark and The Last Crusade.
Why does everything look flat even though the Earth is round?
Even from space, you wouldn’t detect something important about Earth’s shape: It’s not perfectly round. It’s actually a slightly oblate spheroid, or an ellipsoid. This means it is a little bit wider ...
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On a Nostalgic Journey Up the Coast of Kenya, From Mombasa to Lamu
Selina Denman charts the story of this part of East Africa--where African, Arab and European influences merge--as well as her own chapter in it.