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On Saturn, Cassini observes huge storm, causing incredible temperature spike

"Frankenstorm" may be drawing the attention of meteorologists here on Earth.But NASA scientists using the Cassini spacecraft have witnessed a rare massive storm on Saturn that was so violent it sent...

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Hey, Sexy Dino, Show Me Your Feathers

Some of the weirdest animal behavior is about romance. That's especially true with birds — they croon or dance or display brilliant feathers to seduce the reluctant.This sort of sexual display...

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How rare is the Earth? Kepler satellite sheds light

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Move Over, Parrot: Elephant Mimics Trainer At Zoo

Scientists say an Asian elephant at a South Korean zoo can imitate human speech, saying five Korean words that are readily understood by people who speak the language.The male elephant, named Koshik,...

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Sunflowers seen flying through empty desert – Why?

I've been hearing strange wind stories all my life. The best ones are both wildly improbable but still true, like how the Empire State Building gets hit by wafts of barley flying in on jet streams from...

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Oliver Sacks, exploring how hallucinations happen

In Oliver Sacks' book The Mind's Eye, the neurologist included an interesting footnote in a chapter about losing vision in one eye because of cancer that said: "In the '60s, during a period of...

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The Beatles' Surprising Contribution To Brain Science

The same brain system that controls our muscles also helps us remember music, scientists say.When we listen to a new musical phrase, it is the brain's motor system — not areas involved in hearing —...

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Adventurous Eating Helped Human Ancestors Boost Odds Of Survival

Picture, if you can, a prehistoric Bobby Flay — an inventive 3 million-year-old version of the Food Network star chef. He's struggling to liven up yet another salad of herbs and twigs when inspiration...

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VIDEO: In Australia, a total solar eclipse

There were two minutes of stunning astronomical coincidence over Australia today.It was a total solar eclipse and the images are just stunning:The AP reports that people across Australia waited on...

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Big News From Mars? Rover Scientists Mum For Now

Scientists working on NASA's six-wheeled rover on Mars have a problem. But it's a good problem.They have some exciting new results from one of the rover's instruments. On the one hand, they'd like to...

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Sean Carroll tells a story of humanity in the hunt for the Higgs Boson

Now that the election is over its time to address that one burning question still haunting us all. You know the one I am talking about: What exactly is the Higgs Boson?If you're the kind who secretly...

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Space probe finds ice in Mercury's craters

Mercury is not the first planet to come to mind if you were searching for ice in the solar system. After all, the surface temperature across most of the planet is hot enough to melt lead.But at the...

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NASA Scientists 'Very Careful' With New Mars Data

NASA is finally receiving data on Martian soil samples from Curiosity, its rover currently traversing the red planet. The results from the soil samples hint at something exciting, but rover scientists...

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New NASA images show the Earth's electric light show

"The night is nowhere as dark as we might think."That's the word from Mitch Goldberg, program scientist for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association's Joint Polar Satellite System.

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Recreating the universe in the lab

The study of cosmology, the branch of the physical sciences that investigates the universe and its properties, presents quite a practical challenge: contrary to most other sciences, where different...

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