Imagine stepping outside after a thunderstorm and discovering the road covered in frogs. Some are hopping. Others are lying in puddles or on rooftops. Witnesses insist they watched them fall from the sky. It sounds like folklore, a biblical...
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Put a glass of water near a cat and it may drink calmly. Turn on a faucet and the same cat might become fascinated, batting at droplets for minutes. Lower it into a bathtub, however, and you...
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On November 20, 1969, Apollo 12 astronauts Pete Conrad and Alan Bean left the lunar surface and rejoined Richard Gordon in orbit. Their lunar module's ascent stage was no longer useful, so m...
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When a tropical system appears in the Atlantic, the urge to watch it move across a map can become almost compulsive. A disturbance off Africa becomes a colored area on an outlook. A few days...
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In the Chihuahuan Desert of northern Mexico, where Durango, Chihuahua and Coahuila approach one another across an immense dry basin, a patch of landscape has acquired one of the strangest re...
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Astronomy has a reputation for expensive telescopes, complicated star charts and distant objects visible only through professional instruments. Yet some of the sky's most memorable events re...
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How Did Life Begin on Earth? How life began on Earth is one of the most fascinating and elusive questions in science. We know that life has existed on this planet for over 3.5 billion yea...
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Hey, so the other night I heard someone talking about a "Pink Moon" and I was totally lost. Is it actually pink? Like, flamingo pink? It sounded like something out of a dream! Okay, so le...
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Why is the lunar soil gray? The lunar soil is primarily gray due to the presence of volcanic dust formed by fragments of rock that have undergone erosive and micrometeorite action.
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