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Did Earth encounter pieces of an alien visitor last night?

NASA meteor experts had predicted it was a long shot, but the evenings of November 2nd and 3rd might display a meteor shower from dust which puffed off this…

Seismic Leap: Computer to Allow Data Analysis Impossible Today

Using a $2.1 million grant from the National Science Foundation, a group led by computer scientist and astrophysicist Alexander Szalay of Johns Hopkins'…

New long-range undersea robot goes the distance

Today's AUVs fall into two groups: 1) propeller-driven vehicles that can travel fast and carry lots of instruments, but are limited to expeditions of only a…

Speed installation of system to monitor vital signs of global ocean

The ocean surface is 30 percent more acidic today than it was in 1800, much of that increase occurring in the last 50 years – a rising trend that could both…

Very large protected areas preserve wilderness but ignore rare species

The world's largest protected areas encompass vast amounts of wilderness but do not extensively overlap the highest priority areas for conservation or include…

Phosphorus identified as the missing link in evolution of animals

By examining ancient-ocean sediments, Kurt Konhauser, student Stefan Lalonde and other colleagues discovered that as the last glacier to encircle Earth…

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