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2016 Was Earth's Hottest Year on Record, and Humans Are to Blame
January 19, 2017 | ArticleThe globally averaged temperature over land and ocean surfaces for 2016 was the highest among all years since record keeping began in 1880.
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Forecasting the Future is Becoming Big Business for Sci-Fi
January 19, 2017 | ArticleMore policy experts are using science fiction to spice up doom-and-gloom reports of the world's future.
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Extreme Astronomy Unlocks Cosmic Secrets From the South Pole
January 19, 2017 | ArticleThe South Pole Telescope is perfectly located to gaze deep into the universe, but it takes a hardy group of astronomers to live there over the winter.
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Solar Storm Blackout Could Cost the US $42 Billion Per Day
January 19, 2017 | ArticleAnd the highest economic fallout would impact regions outside the blackout zone.
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Cosmic Whodunit: Gas Stripping May Be Killing Galaxies
January 19, 2017 | ArticleWhat's causing so many galaxies in the universe to die before their time? A new study suggests star-forming gas is stripped out of even more galaxies than previously thought.
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Image of the Day
January 19, 2017 | Image AlbumFrench Astronaut Thomas Pesquet snapped this gorgeous photo of Italy by night from the International Space Station.
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Mud Cracks on Mars Suggest a Watery Ancient Past
January 18, 2017 | ArticleNASA's Curiosity rover has photographed shallow crevices on Mars' surface that suggest the planet had an ancient, watery past.
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Heat Record: How NASA Knows 2016 Was the Hottest Year
January 18, 2017 | ArticleLast year (2016) was the warmest year in the modern record, NASA and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) officials said today (Jan. 18) during a news conference. Here's how they calculated that value.
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Weird Mars Rock Spied by Curiosity Rover Is Probably a Meteorite
January 18, 2017 | ArticleNASA's Mars rover Curiosity has stumbled onto another rock that likely fell from space.
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2016 Warmest Year Ever - How NASA Knows | Video
January 18, 2017 | VideoNASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) took measurements from 6300 weather stations across the world, sea surface teships and buoys for sea surface temperatures and measurements from Antarctic research stations to come to the conclusion.
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