New satellite to give high-def look at US weather and other top stories.

• New satellite to give high-def look at US weather

  

  An artist's conception of the GOES-R satellite in orbit around the Earth.(Photo: NOAA)It will be like moving from black-and-white to high-definition TV, one expert said.The USA's newest weather satellite — scheduled for launch this weekend from Florida — will send back the best images we've ever seen of severe storms, blizzards, hurricanes and lightning strikes. And it's fast: The satellite can scan the entire Western Hemisphere in just five minutes."It will revolutionize how severe weather fore..

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• Closest 'Supermoon' Since 1948 Thrills Skywatchers (Photos)

  

  Photographer BG Boyd captured the supermoon at its largest while rising Monday morning (Nov. 14) over Tucson, Arizona. Credit: BG Boyd Photography This month's full moon came the closest to Earth that it has been since 1948. Skywatchers and astrophotographers flocked to see the big, bright moon in all of its glory Sunday night (Nov. 13). The full supermoon peaked this morning (Nov. 14) at 8:52 a.m. EST (1352 GMT), but it will still look "super" for about a day after its maximum. So i..

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• Project Blue Launches Kickstarter Campaign To Photograph Earth-Like Alien Planets

  

  “From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of any particular interest. But for us, it’s different. Consider again that dot. That’s here. That’s home,” American astronomer Carl Sagan once said while talking about the now-famous “Pale Blue Dot” image of Earth taken by the Voyager 1 space probe from the edge of the solar system. Now, an international consortium of scientists wants to take another pale blue dot image — this time of an alien planet.On Tuesday, Project Blue — a private..

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• Why Fighting Donald Trump On Climate Change Is A Waste Of Time

  

  Before everyone gets overly upset about Donald Trump and Climate Change consider this one thing: Donald Trump's denial of Climate Change is irrelevant. Climate Change is a scientific reality and the denial of Climate Change as a problem does not make the threat go away. The reality cannot be changed by the personal beliefs of the President of the United States. This is akin to King Canute demanding that the tide cease to rise. When he failed to force the Ocean to his will, he proclaimed, "le..

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• Female Panther Crosses Florida River; Humans Applaud

  

  A photo of a female panther taken by an automatic game camera north of the Caloosahatchee River in Florida. Florida Fish and Wildlife hide caption toggle caption Florida Fish and Wildlife A photo of a female panther taken by an automatic game camera north of the Caloosahatchee River in Florida. Flori..

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• Heads Up! How NASA's Super Fast New Asteroid Detector Works

  

  Earthlings, always trust a Scout to have your back. NASA's new asteroid detector, a computer program aptly named Scout, is the celestial equivalent of the person who yells "heads up" as a baseball comes barreling toward the stands. Scout is a computer program designed to detect Near Earth Objects that could be on track for impact with Earth in a matter of days or weeks. Scout works by scanning data from NASA's network of telescopes and assessing the likelihood of a Near Earth Object's sl..

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• Pigs can be optimists or pessimists, depending on personality and mood, study finds

  

  You can’t keep a positive pig down. A new study finds that, like humans, pigs can be optimists or pessimists, and that the pessimists are more strongly affected by their current environments.The results, described in the journal Biology Letters, hint that the complex interplay between personality and mood may extend far beyond the human experience. “This finding demonstrates that humans are not unique in combining longer-term personality biases with shorter-term mood biases in judging stimuli,..

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• Science|John Kerry's Antarctica Visit Highlights a Continent, and Climate Policies, Under Threat

  

  But with last week’s election results, the prospect looms that Donald J. Trump will rip up the Obama administration’s work — and throw global efforts against climate change into confusion. Video Greeting a V.I.P. in Antarctica During Secretary of State John Kerry's visit to Antarctica, he - in the white cap - and members of his delegation were enthralled by the wildlife, including an Adélie penguin. By JONATHAN FINER/STATE DEPARTMENT on ..

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• Dutch firm unveils concept space suit for Mars explorers

  

  Dutch company Mars One, which aims to send people to the Red Planet within a decade, on Tuesday unveiled its first concept for a space suit to protect humans "under the most difficult conditions." The pressurised suit will include an impact resistant ...

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