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Honey Bees Turned Data Collectors Help Scientists Understand Climate Change
Besides making delicious honey to enjoy on biscuits, bees have yet another role: that of climate data collectors.
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New Vision for 'Eyes on the Earth'
NASA’s "Eyes on the Earth 3D" is back and better than ever before. This online experience now offers features that allow users to view the latest data beamed back from NASA satellites.
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Insight Into Evolution of Life on Earth
Humans might not be walking on Earth today if not for the ancient fusing of two microscopic, single-celled organisms called prokaryotes, NASA-funded research has found.
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Atlantic Hurricane Season Springs to Life
After a rather slow start, the 2009 Atlantic hurricane season has seen a sudden surge in activity with the rapid emergence of three named storms.
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Satellites Unlock Secret of Vanishing Water in India
Groundwater beneath northern India’s farms and cities has been disappearing. Hydrologists, like NASA's Matt Rodell, have been hunting for it.
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NASA Goes Inside a Volcano, Monitors Activity
Scientists have placed high-tech "spiders" inside and around the mouth of Mount St. Helens, the site of the most active volcano in the United States.
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NASA's A-Train of Satellites "On Track" With Hurricane Research
NASA has several satellites that orbit the Earth one behind the other on the same track. They're called the "A-Train" and one of the things they study is tropical cyclones.
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NASA's Moon Mapper Beholds Home
This image of Earth taken from 200 kilometers (124 miles) above the lunar surface was taken by the Moon Mineralogy Mapper, one of two NASA instruments onboard the Indian Space Research Organization's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft.
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NASA to Provide Web Updates on Objects Approaching Earth
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is introducing a new Web site that will provide a centralized resource for information on near-Earth objects -- those asteroids and comets that can approach Earth.
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Putting Plankton in Perspective, from Sea to Sky
One researcher has used a decade's worth of NASA satellite data to revise old models of plankton blooms in the North Atlantic.