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Jupiter’s signature “Great Red Spot” is the strongest storm in the universe and it is shrinking, but scientists cannot determine the cause. According to Space.com, the rate of its shrinking has sped up as it gets smaller and is now contracting at a rate of 580 miles per year. Scientists said it could have fit three Earths in it when ... Read More »

A replacement Global Positioning System spacecraft for the world’s best-known satellite constellation ascended into orbit Friday night aboard a Delta 4 rocket in a spectacular sendoff at sunset. Igniting its main engine and twin solid rockets at 8:03 p.m. EDT, the 205-foot-tall vehicle lifted off on 1.2 million pounds of chest-thumping thrust. The launch has been delayed a day by ... Read More »

One of the clearest photos yet from Nasa’s Mars Curiosity rover shows what lies beneath the surface of the red planet. The rover drilled through the surface before firing a laser at a series of points inside the hole to analyse the material. In a photograph released by Nasa – create using eight separate images – piles of dust can ... Read More »

Researchers said Thursday that they have identified a nearly complete skeleton in an underwater Mexican cave, a discovery that could help resolve a longstanding debate about the origins of the first people to inhabit the Americas. Read More »

An Oklahoma fisherman made headlines when he caught an enormous, 100-pound alligator snapping turtle last Sunday. The prehistoric-looking, alligator snapping turtle is the largest freshwater turtle by weight in the world, Grind TV reported. Read More »

Particles from the sun not only warm our planet and occasionally knock out radio signals, but also cause electrical storms, according to new research from England. Scientists from the department of meteorology at the University of Reading have announced a link between increased thunderstorm activity on Earth and streams of high-energy particles accelerated by the solar wind, suggesting those space ... Read More »

The mystery of how octopuses manage not to get tangled up in their own tentacles has finally been solved. Published in the journal Current Biology, researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem noted it has long been known that octopuses do not know where their arms are exactly – so how then, they asked, do they not end up tying ... Read More »

An animal shot dead by a coyote hunter in Iowa in February was the first gray wolf spotted in the state since at least 1925, DNA testing has confirmed. The hunter, who hasn’t been named, shot the female wolf near Fairbank in northwest Buchanan County believing it to be a similar-looking coyote. It is legal to shoot coyote in Iowa, ... Read More »

As the Earth’s oceans have warmed over the past three decades, the staging grounds for destructive hurricanes have crept toward the poles, according to a study by three of the world’s leading tropical weather experts. This could be the first “robust” signal that the buildup of greenhouse gases from human activity is influencing tropical storms, the authors said. Read More »

The Provincial government has released more details on how the fight against Zebra Mussels on Lake Winnipeg will be rolled out in another week weather permitting. The zebra mussels will be fought by applying liquid potash to harbour waters. Conservation and Water Stewardship Minister Gord Mackintosh said the treatment will not impact fish, discolour water, and or result in any ... Read More »

Nicknamed “Alien” because it resembles the beast in the movie, the catfish Kryptoglanis shajii is found only in the Western Ghats mountain range of Kerala, India, Live Science reported. The catfish lives in subterranean waters, but has been spotted in the area’s springs and wells. Read More »