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Kepler epitaph? Eight most intriguing finds of troubled telescope.
Kepler, the space telescope designed to help us find other Earth-like planets, is on the fritz. Scientists hope they will be able to fix it remotely, but if they can't, its brief, brilliant career could be over. Here are eight of its most important discoveries.
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Bestselling books the week of 5/5/13, according to IndieBound*
What's selling best in independent bookstores across America.
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How much do you know about California? Take our quiz.
There's California and then there's the rest of the United States. If you have Hollywood, the Golden Gate, earthquakes, volcanoes, Death Valley, and the Lakers, what else do you need? If you're a Californian, see how well you know your state. If you're not, see if you can pass yourself off as one.
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12 promising novels for spring 2013
Here are 12 spring 2013 fiction titles that we're looking forward to picking up.
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Major League Baseball 2013: bobbleheads and fireworks galore for fans
Fans in the know are as likely to buy Major League Baseball tickets based on scheduled giveaways and promotions as on the opponent. Here then is a list to help introduce you to this aspect of game attendance.
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Oklahoma tornado was stronger than Hiroshima bomb: How?
When the conditions are exactly right – and they were, for the tornado that devastated Oklahoma City yesterday – a tornado can unleash more power than the nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
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Oklahoma tornado: How accurate were predictions?
The devastation that the tornado wreaked on Moore, Okla., highlights both the progress forecasters have made and the remaining challenges they face in predicting such events.
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Energy Voices When oil forecasts get it wrong
Oil forecasts fail so often that it's puzzling that the media, governments, corporations, and the public put so much faith in them, Cobb writes. Those whose plans were based on the IEA's 2000 oil forecast were completely blindsided by developments just a few years later.
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6.8 Chile earthquake strikes off the coast
6.8 Chile earthquake: The USGS revised the original report of a 6.8 earthquake down to 6.5. The earthquake struck off Chile Monday morning. No tsunami warning was issued.
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Kepler epitaph? Eight most intriguing finds of troubled telescope.
Kepler, the space telescope designed to help us find other Earth-like planets, is on the fritz. Scientists hope they will be able to fix it remotely, but if they can't, its brief, brilliant career could be over. Here are eight of its most important discoveries.
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Pavlof Volcano ash cloud shows Alaska's threat to air travel (+video)
Ash billowing from Pavlof Volcano is not high enough to affect international air travel, but Pavlof is just one of a string of active Alaska volcanoes that sits beneath the flight corridor between the US and Asia.
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Energy Voices Ernest Moniz confirmed unanimously as Energy secretary
Ernest Moniz earned bipartisan approval Thursday as the Senate voted 97-0 to confirm the nuclear physicist as the next secretary of the Department of Energy. The support for Ernest Moniz is in contrast to divided opinions over Gina McCarthy, President Obama's pick to head the EPA.
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Blue crabs in Maine? Something fishy about global warming.
Warming oceans are changing the mix of species in the world's fisheries, according to a new study. Marine-ecosystem models have indicated that this could be an effect from global warming.
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Change Agent How mussels could help clean polluted waters
Along the shores of New York Harbor, scientists are investigating whether mussels, a hardy bivalve, might be grown in urban areas as a way of cleaning coastal waters of sewage, fertilizers, and other pollutants.
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Charles Darwin wrong about coral reef formation?
Though deep drilling on reefs finally confirmed Darwin's model in 1953, the reality of reef-building may be more complex.
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Energy Voices Arctic Council: China looks north for oil, gas, and fish
Arctic Council grants China observer status. The eight-member Arctic Council will be key to regulating the anticipated resource rush as warming temperatures further open the Arctic to oil and gas drilling and fishing.
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Energy Voices Why natural gas exports would benefit clean energy
The renewable energy industry would benefit from higher natural gas prices since, as these fuels for electric power plants become dearer, renewable energy sources become more competitive, Cobb writes. Still, the renewable energy industry will probably stay largely mum in the fight over expanded exports of US natural gas.
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Calif. homes sinking in mysterious 'slow motion disaster'
Calif. homes sinking: Eight Calif. homes are now abandoned and 10 more are sinking and under notice of imminent evacuation. The postman has been told to stop mail delivery: It's too dangerous.
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Atmospheric carbon dioxide levels reach milestone
A monitoring station in Hawaii has measured carbon dioxide levels of 400 parts per million, a concentration not seen on Earth since the Pleistocene Era.
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Google Earth Engine unveils how Earth has altered
For the first time, the public can track back the environmental changes occurring on our planet's surface over time via Google Earth Engine.
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Ancient Arctic was warm, wet, and green. What that says about the future.
A 1,000-foot core sample taken from a lake in Russia's northeast Arctic documents a period when the region was 14 degrees warmer than today, but with similar atmospheric CO2 levels.
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Change Agent India seeks new ways to fund energy-efficient lighting
Replacing even a couple of conventional light bulbs with CFLs results in huge cost savings for poor families in India. But with carbon markets failing new ways to fund bulb replacement are being sought.
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NASA satellite snaps spectacular images of volcanic eruption
Launched in February and now 438 miles above the Earth's surface, NASA's Landsat Data Continuity Mission satellite took several photos of an erupting Indonesian volcano.
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Bestselling books the week of 5/5/13, according to IndieBound*
What's selling best in independent bookstores across America.
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Philippines volcano erupts, kills five foreign climbers
The Mayon volcano erupted in the Philippines Tuesday, killing five climbers and injuring eight others. The Mayon volcano is about 340 kilometers (212 miles) southeast of Manila and has erupted about 40 times during the last 400 years.
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USA Update Cleveland Volcano explosions put air travel on alert: Who could be affected?
Cleveland Volcano in Alaska's Aleutian Islands sits under the flight corridor between North America and Asia, but so far, its new ash cloud is not big enough to ground planes.
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How much water in that snowpack? Scientists seek a better gauge.
More accurate, more frequent measurements of mountain snowpacks will allow water managers to mete out reservoirs with greater confidence. Two watersheds in the western US are testing grounds for a new aerial approach.
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Energy Voices What determines energy abundance? Flow.
Energy abundance depends entirely on the rate of the flow of oil, gas and other resources, Cobb writes. It is not, as many suggest, dependent on supposed, but often unverified, fossil fuel reserves in the ground.
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In Gear General Motors signs call for climate change action
General Motors is the first automaker to sign onto the Climate Declaration, a statement drafted by Ceres and its Business for Innovative Climate & Energy Policy project. General Motors has dramatically cut energy usage at its facilities and owns two of the world's five largest rooftop solar arrays.
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With Arctic sea ice vulnerable, summer melt season begins briskly (+video)
The Arctic saw a record loss of summer sea ice in 2012, and the 2013 melt is off to a faster start than a year ago. Another record is uncertain, but warming has sapped the ice's staying power.
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