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Avoiding Armegeddon: The hunt is on for dangerous asteroids
More than 1,000 people were injured last February in Chelyabinsk, Russia, when a meteor exploded over the city. The collision shattered windows and pelted startled residents with shards of glass and debris. In the aftermath, the world was transfixed by extraordinary videos of the huge fireball as it streaked across the sky. Many wondered, why on earth did no one see it coming?
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6.8B Mobile Subs By End Of 2013, Nearly As Many People As There Are On Earth
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the UN agency that oversees IT and communications development, today released its latest annual report charting how well we are doing as a planet in getting everyone connected. Mobile is the topline success story: the ITU projects that by the end of this year, there will be 6.8 billion mobile connections, equal to the number of people living on earth today. Overall, there are 2.7 billion people online, using either a fixed or mobile connection.
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Scientists Uncover First Ever Evidence of Exploding Comet Striking Earth
Scientists have uncovered the first ever evidence of an ancient comet that entered Earth's atmosphere before exploding in a spectacular display. The resulting shock wave rained down a wave of fire which obliterated almost every life form in its path. The findings may help researchers unlock the secrets of the formation of our solar system.
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What chance does a young girl have?
When a young girl starts out in life, where will her journey take her? Will she have the same opportunities as the boys she grows up with? Will she face more dangers, or fight the same battles? More than 100 years since women began winning the right to vote, many societies are still dominated by men.
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Hawaii Formed Differently than Believed, Study Suggests
Hawaii formed through the eruptions of lava on the surface, also known as extrusion, rather than through the internal emplacement of magma, as previously believed.
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A New Study Calculates the Year Climate Change Will Hit Your City
Climate change is a global problem, but that doesn’t mean it’s going to hit us all the same time. If you live in Moscow, scientists estimate that your local climate will depart from the historical norm in the year 2063. In New York, that date is the year 2047. And if you happen to reside in Mexico City or Jakarta, those numbers are 2031 and 2029, respectively.
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How Life Would Look If the Moon Was as Close to Earth as the ISS
Even though it might not look like much when it's so far away, the Moon is pretty huge. In fact, if it was a little closer—as close as the ISS for example—it would monopolize the entire sky.
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The Uncanny Places on Earth That Look Like Alien Worlds
We've made huge strides towards finding exoplanets and surveying the other worlds in our solar system recently -- but most of us will never know what it's like to stand on another soil, especially under another sun. Good thing there are a lot of places on Earth that you could easily mistake for strange new worlds.
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Here are the world’s worst cities for air pollution
In 2010, some 223,000 people around the world died from lung cancer caused by exposure to air pollution, the World Health Organization (WHO) said yesterday. And more than half of those deaths are believed to have been in China and elsewhere in East Asia. Here are the world’s worst cities for air pollution, according to the WHO.
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Curiosity proves that bits of Mars fall to Earth as meteorites
The speculation ends: Mars rover Curiosity has positively identified hundreds of meteorites found all over the Earth as Martians.
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What Each Country Leads the World In
Doghouse Diaries has created a funny and informative world map that shows “What Each Country Leads The World In.” According to the map, Japan leads the world in robots, and the United States leads in Nobel laureates and people getting killed by lawnmowers.
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How many countries are in the world? (You're wrong)
Don’t Google this, just try to answer: How many countries are in the world? One hundred ninety-six? One hundred eighty-nine? Somewhere around that, right? Actually, it’s a little more complicated than counting them on a map or looking up the question on Wikipedia. They'll give you an answer, of course, but even if you have the latest world map and the most recent Wiki page, you'll still get conflicting results.
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What it would be like if this quarter-mile-wide asteroid hit the Earth in 2032 (and you survived it)
Earlier this month, Ukrainian astronomers made a pretty big discovery: a quarter-mile-wide asteroid, to be exact. From their initial calculations, the astronomers learned that a relatively large, never-seen-before asteroid—named 2013 TV135—had just buzzed safely past Earth but would make an extremely close call on August 26, 2032.
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Study: Sun Will End Earthly Life in 2.8 Billion Years
The final days of life on Earth will come some 2.8 billion years from now, suggests a sobering new study. Currently at a comfortable temperature for life on Earth, our aging sun will slowly warm over its lifetime. Within about five billion years, the sun will exhaust its nuclear fuel and bloat into a "red giant" star that may even engulf our planet.
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Oldest Air on Earth Hiding in Antarctic Ice
Tiny puffs of air from 1.5 million years ago may be locked inside bubbles in the ice nearly two miles beneath Antarctica’s surface. That ancient air, if it exists, would be the oldest sample of Earth’s atmosphere ever recovered.
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Can Artificial Meat Save The World?
Traditional chicken, beef, and pork production devours resources and creates waste. Meat-free meat might be the solution.
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One-tonne satellite will fall back to Earth in an unknown location
A one-tonne satellite operated by the European Space Agency (ESA) has run out of fuel and will fall back to Earth in an unknown location sometime in the next few days. The Gravity Field and Steady-State Ocean Circulation Explorer, or GOCE, has been mapping Earth's gravitational field for just over four years, but has been losing altitude by 2.5 miles a day over the past month.
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The Science Behind Earth’s Many Colors
Photographer Bernhard Edmaier is a geologist by training, and it is this knowledge base of the processes that create geological features that he leans on when selecting locations to shoot. For almost 20 years, he has hunted the world over for the most breathtaking views of coral reefs, active volcanoes, hot springs, desert dunes, dense forests and behemoth glaciers.
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Heads Up! Satellite Set to Crash to Earth
The European Space Agency's GOCE satellite ran out of fuel and is predicted to fall to Earth Sunday night.
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How to fix global warming before it’s too late
The fight against climate change has finally hit on a concept that may resonate with world leaders: budgets. Carbon budgeting is catching on just in time for the next round of UN-brokered climate talks, which kick off in Warsaw, Poland, on Nov. 11. It just might provide a framework for the first politically acceptable, scientifically rigorous plan to save the world from the devastating effects of a warming planet.
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