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Severe weather threatens to pummel Midwest, Plains

Severe weather threatens to pummel Midwest, Plains

Baseball-sized hail, wind gusts and tornadoes are threatening to pummel parts of the central Plains and Midwest ...

Mount St. Helens monitoring scaled back due to budget cuts

Mount St. Helens monitoring scaled back due to budget cuts

Federal budget gets are forcing scientists monitoring U.S. volcanoes around the Pacific Basin, including Mount St. Helens, ...

The Big One: Preparing for mid-America earthquake

The Big One: Preparing for mid-America earthquake

It’s a bleak scenario. A massive earthquake along the New Madrid fault kills or injures 60,000 people ...

Earth’s Iron Core Is Surprisingly Weak, Researchers Say

Earth’s Iron Core Is Surprisingly Weak, Researchers Say

The massive ball of iron sitting at the center of Earth is not quite as “rock-solid” as ...

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GRANBURY, Texas  – Residents of a North Texas town ravaged by a deadly tornado are ...
COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh – A once-fearsome cyclone that was threatening Bangladesh and Myanmar dissipated quickly, ...
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The super-active sunspot responsible for unleashing the three most powerful solar flares of 2013 within a 24-hour stretch this week is ... Full article
There she goes again! The same region of the sun that brought you three powerful ...
Last night, as Commander Hadfield and the Expedition 35 crew were returning to Earth in ...
STRONGEST FLARE OF THE YEAR: A sunspot hiding behind the sun’s northeastern limb erupted on ...
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It’s a bleak scenario. A massive earthquake along the New Madrid fault kills or injures 60,000 people in Tennessee. A quarter ... Full article
TOKYO – An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.0 jolted northeastern Japan on Saturday, ...
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.2 struck eastern Canada on Friday morning, the ...
In 1700, a massive earthquake struck the west coast of North America. Though it was ...
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Two new medical discoveries are raising hopes of containing malaria – the mosquito-borne parasitic disease that each year infects more than ... Full article
Water gives life. Researchers at Linköping University in Sweden now show how the cells in ...
A new study, led by a Binghamton University anthropologist and published this week by the ...
World Health Organization (WHO) officials said on Sunday it seemed likely a new coronavirus that ...
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Baseball-sized hail, wind gusts and tornadoes are threatening to pummel parts of the central Plains and Midwest on Sunday and Monday. ... Full article
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is expected to press the United States to take ...
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea launched three short-range missiles into the sea off its ...
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria – Nigeria’s military declared a 24-hour curfew Saturday on neighborhoods in a northeastern ...
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Federal budget gets are forcing scientists monitoring U.S. volcanoes around the Pacific Basin, including Mount St. Helens, to cut back operations ... Full article
The Popocatepetl volcano has erupted, with an explosion of lava and ash scattered over a ...
MEXICO CITY – Seismic activity is continuing at the Popocatepetl volcano near Mexico City and ...
An Alaska volcano exhibiting “elevated seismic activity” has spewed ash clouds skyward — as high ...
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An international team of astronomers have reported the first scientific results from the Karoo Array Telescope (KAT-7) in South Africa, the ... Full article
NASA scientists recorded the biggest explosion from a meteorite impact seen on the moon in ...
A big asteroid will cruise by Earth at the end of the month, making its ...
The powerful winds of Uranus and Neptune are apparently confined to tight layers in both ...
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