A mystery in the desert solved, a picture happy jumbo squid and some strange Peruvian sights are just a few of the cool images we found this week. Check these out.
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March 29 marks the anniversary of when a massive ice jam reduced the mighty Niagara Falls to a trickle in 1848, a rare phenomena that lasted for nearly 40 hours
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A new interpretation of radiometric dating on the asteroid Vesta shows that rocks smashed into the surface at higher speeds during the early solar system.
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There are just 1,000 individual Yangtze finless porpoises left in the wild, according to a new report. That's less than half of what a similar survey of the porpoises found six years ago.
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This cool space wallpaper is part of a mosaic of images from the Mast Camera (Mastcam) on NASA's Mars rover Curiosity, which shows Mount Sharp in a white-balanced color adjustment.
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Researchers at the University of Kansas and CReSIS (Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets) investigate the melting ice sheets from ground, air, and space to study the potential for sea level rise.
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The Harvard forest, like forests across the country is working overtime to absorb the excess CO2 being produced by humans and researchers at Harvard are looking at how that affects the health of these environments.
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Carnivorous Humboldt squid flash skin-color changing rhythms when they encounter others of their species. Scientists don't yet know what these 'conversations' mean. Video-cams strapped to squid show arm-waving, fighting and mating behaviors.
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This spectacular wallpaper shows Canaveral National Seashore, which is situated on a barrier island along Florida's east coast. The park has a pristine, undeveloped beach, dunes and a lagoon offering sanctuary to an abundant blend of plants and animals.
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This space wallpaper is a schematic representing how light from a distant galaxy is distorted by the gravitational effects of a nearer foreground galaxy known as Einstein rings.
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A controversial study looking at the effect of chelation therapy on heart disease is drawing more criticism today upon its publication in a prestigious journal.
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Follow ancient passageways to a distant time in this fascinating wallpaper showing Aztec Ruins National Monument in New Mexico. Explore West Ruin, a center of ancestral Pueblo society that once housed over 500 masonry rooms.
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The notion of the 'john next door' has been perpetuated in pop culture, and even in some recent studies, but new research shows that frequenting prostitutes is not all that ordinary.
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