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Rift in Pine Island Glacier ice shelf, West Antarctica, photographed from the air during a NASA Operation IceBridge survey flight on Nov. 4, 2016.
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One of the industries that would greatly benefit from the new discovery of creating silicon-carbon bonds from living organisms is pharmaceuticals.
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An ant colony nurtures a Squamellaria plants in the crease of a Macaranga tree. Photo by G. Chomicki/LMU. MUNICH, Germany, Nov. 27 (UPI) -- Ants have been farming for at least 3 million years.
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Coconut crabs are the strongest crustaceans, it turns out - at least when it comes to lifting, pinching and cracking things. The largest land crabs on Earth, coconut crabs, scientific name Birgus latro, can lift around 66 pounds with their pincers ...
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A theme park in Japan has closed a skating rink featuring frozen fish after receiving complaints that it was being "disrespectful" to animals.
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MEXICO CITY, Nov. 26 (UPI) -- A volcano in Mexico erupted, sending ash three miles into the air and prompting warnings from government officials for tourists and residents to stay away.
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Washington, D.C. - When astronauts in the Orion spacecraft travel beyond the moon to explore deep space destinations, they'll need a robust diet to keep them healthy and sharp.
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ABOVE VIDEO: Now in its final year of operations, on Nov. 30, 2016, NASA's Cassini mission will begin a daring set of ring-grazing orbits, skimming past the outside edge of Saturn's main rings.
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At least three missions, each flown by different rockets, are scheduled to launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station during a 10-day period next month that could close out the 2016 launch manifest.
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According to a theoretical physicist, Stephen Hawking, an asteroid might sweep off human life on Earth in a thousand years. (Photo : ESA 2010 MPS for OSIRIS Team/Getty Images).
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BOISE, Idaho - It sounds like a big fish story: a plan to create a biodiversity map identifying thousands of aquatic species in every river and stream in the Western United States.
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One of the oddest things about our universe is that it has some fundamental constants. These constants—such as the speed of light in a vacuum—have numerical values that don't change no matter what conditions you test them under.
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A video uploaded on YouTube claims that a 190-meter-wide alien spacecraft landed on Mars. The video refers to the image of the spaceship captured by the Mars Global Surveyor in 2000.
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Donald Trump is branded with all manner of unflattering labels, but one that hasn't seemed to much bother him is “climate pariah.
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HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - Many birds in Connecticut are suffering slow, steady population declines because of a loss of nesting areas, and scientists say the saltmarsh sparrow could be extinct in 50 years, becoming the first avian extinction in the ...
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A number of UFO sightings have been reported through not only decades, but even through centuries. A new theory asks: Are we all alien worshippers?
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STOCKHOLM - The Arctic archipelago of Svalbard has seen such extreme warmth this year that the average annual temperature could end up above freezing for the first time on record, scientists said Friday.
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Although it is part of our everyday vocabulary, the term "carbon footprint" is not well understood by most people who use it.
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I've written quite a bit over the past few years about the death spiral of sea ice at the North Pole. Every year the amount of ice goes up and down with the seasons, growing in winter and declining in summer.
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Scientists have taken to Twitter to talk about all the important work NASA's earth science program does, using the hashtag #ThanksNASA.
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