A penguin standing on ice looks as though someone designed a bird with a torso, two feet and almost nothing in between. Its legs seem impossibly short, and when it starts walking, the familiar side-to-side waddle only strengthens the illusi...
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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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On most nights, Americans who want to see the northern lights need to travel a very long way north. Then the Sun becomes unusually active, NOAA issues a geomagnetic-storm watch or warning, a...
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Hey, so you know that "Pink Moon" thing I heard about? Is it actually, like, bright pink, a giant cotton candy ball in the sky? It sounds totally weird! Okay, so the "Pink Moon" isn't rea...
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