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The Milky Way’s Magnetic Personality  
Recently we took a look at a very unusual type of map the Faraday Sky. Now an international team of scientists, including those at the Naval Research Laboratory, have pooled their information and cre...

 

Desk-bound lifestyles proving hazardous, researchers say  
Travis Saunders used to sit all day reading studies about how sitting all day was killing him.

 

Nandhor Valley, Uttarakhand springs pleasant surprises  
WWF-India�s survey of prey and predator presence documents wildlife seldom seen in the area Submitted by Cher C. to Animals  |   Note-it!  |   Add a Commen...

 

Sirius XM broadcasting Super Bowl XLVI in 10 languages: where to listen  
Sirius XM radio will broadcast Super Bowl 2012 between the New York Giants and the New England Patriots in ten different langauges Sunday, February 5th.Super Bowl Broadcasts 6:20 pm ET:• New Eng...

 

The experiment to determine whether an astronaut could fall like a cat [Space]  
# space How did astronauts learn to walk in space? In part, they learned from the animal kingdom's master of the freefall: the common hou...

 

The Problem With Defining Life  
The problem, in a word, is language. Carl Zimmer’s recent article Can Life Be Defined in Three Words raised just that issue. He referred to the many attempts that have been made by scientists to def...

 

Weather History: February 5: Record Temps, Snow, Storms, Wind & Fog  
Meteorological events that happened on February 5th:Today is National Weatherman/Meteorologist day commemorating the birth of John Jeffries in 1744. Jeffries, one of America's first weather obser...

 

Canada: Earthquake Magnitude 5.7 - Vancouver Island  
Date-Time: Saturday, February 04, 2012 at 20:05:32 UTC Saturday, February 04, 2012 at 12:05:32 PM at epicenter Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones Location: 48.867°N, 127.876°W Depth: 12.8 km (8....

 

Bahuaja Sonene National Park Holds 365 Previously Undocumented Species (PHOTOS)  
By OurAmazingPlanet Staff: Hundreds of species never before seen in a Peruvian national park have been found during an inventory of the Amazonian forests there, according to a conse...

 

Castaway lizards put evolution to the test  
When Hurricane Frances swept through the Caribbean in 2004, it wiped out populations of little anole lizards living on seven tiny islands in the Bahamas. Instead of mourning the loss, Harvard Uni...