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The Future
NASA solar spacecraft snaps first image from inside sun's atmosphere
CNET - by Jackson Ryan
The Parker Solar Probe zips down the sun's boulevard and asks, "Are you ready for your close-up?"
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Northern Canada
Satellite spies methane bubbling up from Arctic permafrost
nature.com - Jeff Tollefson
Radar instrument aboard a Japanese probe can spot signs of gas seeping from lakes that form as the ground thaws. For the first time, scientists have …
Science
Climate change is 'shrinking winter'
bbc.co.uk - By Victoria Gill
Snowy mountain winters are being "squeezed" by climate change, according to scientists in California. Researchers who studied the winter snowfall in the mountains there revealed that rising temperatures
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Glaciers
Melting Discovered in East Antarctic Region Holding Ice 'Equivalent to Four Greenlands'
ecowatch.com - Olivia Rosane
Ice sheets in Greenland and West Antarctica have been melting at alarming rates in recent years, but at least the glaciers of East Antarctica were …
European Union
Scientists identify 66 alien species that pose greatest threat to European biodiversity
eurekalert.org
Invasive animals and plants are likely to arrive in the next decade Scientists have identified 66 alien plant and animal species, not yet established …
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Five reasons why 2018 was a big year for palaeontology
theconversation.com - Julien Benoit
A lot happened in the world of palaeontology in 2018. Some of the big events included some major fossil finds, a new understanding of our reptile …
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Science
Mystery behind WWI shipwreck possibly solved during incredible exploration
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The USS San Diego was the only major warship the U.S. lost during World War I. Now, nearly 100 years after it sank, and countless theories as to what caused the wreck, researchers believe they have determined
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Parker Solar Probe
Parker Solar Probe: Sun-skimming mission starts calling home
BBC News - By Jonathan Amos
Just weeks after making the closest ever flyby of the Sun, Nasa's Parker Solar Probe is sending back its data. Included in the observations is this remarkable image of the energetic gas, or plasma, flowing
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Rocky Mountains
Quake-Up Call: Magnitude 4.4 Temblor Rattles People Out Of Bed Across Southeast U.S.
NPR - Colin Dwyer
Before the sun rose Wednesday over Tennessee, some residents in the eastern half of the state got a wake-up call. But it wasn't a friend or partner shaking them awake, it was the very ground beneath their
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Magnetism
As Juno Nears Middle of Jupiter Mission, NASA Shares Newest Findings
newsy.com - Tyler Adkisson
Juno is one of the first probes to ever study Jupiter in detail, and it's learned so much that it may change our understanding of how Jupiter …
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Reindeer
Sorry Santa—Climate Change Is Killing Reindeer
Fortune - Chris Morris
Dancer, Dasher, Comet, and Vixen are getting pretty lonely these days. A new report on climate change finds the number of wild reindeer in the Arctic …
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Trump Administration
Trump Administration Hasn’t Shown Interest In Climate Change Briefings Despite Dire Warnings
The Inquisitr - Holly Chavez
NOAA, the top science agency in the U.S., says the White House has not asked for any information about this pressing environmental issue. The American …
Michigan
Gov. Snyder establishes Line 5 tunnel authority
mlive.com - By Michael Kransz | mkransz@mlive.com mkransz@mlive.com
LANSING, MI -- Gov. Rick Snyder has approved the Line 5 tunnel bill and appointed all members of the newly-created tunnel authority. Snyder’s …
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Sea Ice
NASA Space Lasers Creating Most Detailed Map Ever of Antarctica's Ice
space.com - Yasemin Saplakoglu, Live Science Staff Writer
A satellite launched in September, NASA's ICESat-2 ,or the Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite-2, is revealing previously unmapped valleys in …
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Google Doodle tells why you shouldn't miss Thursday's meteor showers
thequint.com - IANS
New Delhi, Dec 13 (IANS) After 9 p.m. on Thursday , you should be able to watch the best Geminid meteor showers to Earth ever and Google has made a …
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Bonitasoft Partner IIC Technologies Earns 2018 WFMC Award for Excellence in Business Transformation with Bonita Platform
Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec 12, 2018--Bonitasoft, the largest open source provider of a BPM-based digital transformation platform, announced today that its partner IIC Technologies has been selected
Cool Hunting
Physical Geography
Earth’s “Deep Biosphere” Thrives Beneath Our Feet
Cool Hunting
The Deep Carbon Observatory (DCO), composed of 1,000 scientists from 52 countries, studies the underground ecosystems between Earth’s surface and its core. In a recent statement, this has been referred
Sexual Harassment
Will the New Congress Take Up Sexual Harassment in Science?
psmag.com - Francie Diep
Several members of Congress are already eying legislation to require universities to report taxpayer-funded harassers to the …
Glaciers
Slow flow for glaciers thinning in Asia
esa.int - earth.esa.int
Providing water for drinking, irrigation and power, glaciers in the world's highest mountains are a lifeline for more than a billion people. As …
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Geophysics
SLAM Detects BHPEM Anomaly in Zinc Discovery Hole
Business Insider - PRESS RELEASE GlobeNewswire
MIRAMICHI, New Brunswick, Dec. 12, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- SLAM Exploration Ltd. (“SLAM” or the “Company” on TSXV: SXL) is pleased to announce that a bore hole pulse electromagnetic (“BHPEM”) survey diamond
Geophysics
Casa Minerals Inc. Discovers 231 g/t Silver, 6.15% Zinc and 1.0%* Copper in Strong Zone of Zinc-Silver-Copper Mineralization
yahoo.com - ACCESSWIRE
VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESSWIRE / December 12, 2018 / Casa Minerals Inc. (TSX-V: Casa; OTC: CASXF; Frankfurt: 0CM) (the "Company" or "Casa") is pleased to …
NASA
NASA moving forward on implementing Earth science decadal survey recommendations
spacenews.com - Jeff Foust
WASHINGTON — Nearly a year after the release of the latest decadal survey for the field, the head of NASA’s Earth science program says the agency is …
Node.js
cosmosdb geospatial look up return blank
stackoverflow.com - Shawn Varughese
I am using cosmosDB to do a $geowithin lookup and when i run the query in the cosmosdb data explorer it works fine and returns the right set. When i …
Asheville
Earthquake in Eastern Tennessee felt in Asheville, Atlanta
citizen-times.com - www.citizen-times.com
Some folks in the mountains may have rattled awake Wednesday. An 4.4 magnitude earthquake near the eastern Tennessee town of Decatur could be felt as …
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Habitats
There's a 'Subterranean Galapagos' Deep Inside the Earth
VICE - Becky Ferreira
“A decade ago, we had no idea that the rocks beneath our feet could be so vastly inhabited.” There is a vast biosphere deep underground that is nearly twice as big as Earth’s oceans and contains some billion
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Ice Age
Curiosity — The Ice Age May Have Been Caused by the Earth's...
curiosity.com
Earth’s last great ice age, known as the Quaternay Glaciation, began roughly 3.2 million years ago. This period was characterized by the expansion of …
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NASA
Martian and Scottish soils 'strikingly similar'
BBC News - BBC World
Scientists have discovered soil on Mars to be similar to that found in two locations in Scotland. The Aberdeen-based James Hutton Institute studied data on Martian minerals beamed back to Earth by Nasa's
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Plate Tectonics
The Tectonic Activity of Earth May Be the Key To Supporting Life
futurism.com
The Field Of Exogeology How critical to life are plate tectonics? They seem to have been vital here on Earth, keeping the planet from freezing. And …
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Hypnotic Slow-Motion Video Shows How Scientists Made Lava Explode in a Lab
Inverse - Peter Hess
It's like water on a grease fire. Anyone who’s splashed a little water into hot oil knows that the results can be disastrous. But when water and magma …
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Scientists Blew Up Lava in a Backyard Volcano to Unlock the Secrets of the Most Violent Eruptions
Popular Mechanics - By Jill Kiedaisch
Water can make a volcanic eruption much, much worse. Dump some basaltic rock into an induction furnace, heat it up to 2,400 degrees Fahrenheit, pour it into an insulated steel box about 18 inches tall,