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A research team led by Dr. John Stamatoyannopoulos, University of Washington, announced yesterday they have discovered a second code hiding within human DNA. This second code contains information that changes how scientists read the instructions contained in
Powerful winter storm Alexa is sweeping eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East and causing mayhem across the region since Wednesday, December 11. Alexa is the worst snow storm that hit the Middle East since 1953 and its effects are far worst than anyone
The Ogallala Aquifer is a vast, shallow water table aquifer located beneath the Great Plains in the United States. It underlies an area of approximately 450 000 km² (174 000 mi²) and its significant portions are at risk of drying up if it
"Fast radio bursts" (FRBs) are a new type of cosmological transients first discovered in 2007 and their physical nature is still not known. These cosmic chirps last for only a thousandth of a second and the characteristics of the radio
NASA's network of all-sky meteor cameras reported 23 Geminid fireballs over the United States today. This sharp uptick in activity signals the official beginning of the 2013 Geminid meteor shower.
For the next 3 to 4 days, Earth will continue to pass
Data from the Hubble space telescope suggests that enormous jets of water, more than 200 kilometers tall, may be spurting intermittently from the surface of Europa, ice-shelled moon of Jupiter.
Although it’s been known since 2005 that
New activity was observed at 2 volcanoes between December 3 and 10. During the same period, ongoing activity was observed at 11 volcanoes.
New activity/unrest: | Kliuchevskoi, Central Kamchatka (Russia) | Shiveluch, Central Kamchatka
The season of noctilucent, "night-shining", clouds has begun in the southern hemisphere and NASA's AIM spacecraft is monitoring a vast bank of rippling electric-blue NLCs blanketing almost all of Antarctica.
Noctilucent clouds
At this year's Fall Meeting of American Geophysical Union, held in San Francisco (December 9 – 13), several scientists made a presentation on weak Solar Cycle 24 and its consequences.
They agree that the current solar cycle is on track to be
In May 2008 the Chilean volcano Chaiten erupted spectacularly and exhibited remarkable lightning activity. Photographer Carlos Gutierrez captured a few images showing unusual kelly-green lightning channels. In this briefing, lightning researcher Arthur Few explains the
