Arctic Ocean Acidification (2013) - Short (3 minute) version from AMAP on Vimeo.
As if the Arctic didn’t have enough to worry about. In addition to diminishing sea ice, pollution and rising temperatures, scientists are now warning of the widespread effects that ocean acidification could have on the North.
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This image, captured on February 28th by the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager on NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, shows just a few small sunspots. Typically, there are many sunspots during peak solar activity. Below, view a video of February's full solar rotation showing relatively few sunspots. (Photo: NASA)
This year’s solar maximum may be the minimum maximum of the century.
Every 11 years or so, there is a peak in solar activity, such as sun spots, flares and solar winds. For the past eight years, scientists have predicted 2013 to be the maximum of the current solar cycle, but the number of sunspots during these peaks can vary.
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Mid-town Manhattan, 1991. Crime in New York was near its all time peak. Times Square was still full of seedy strip clubs and drug-pushing hustlers. If you told anyone in town that in 10 years it’d have a Disney store and the tourists would be queuing for the privilege of pinching the Speedo-clad butt cheeks of a Naked Cowboy troubadour, they’d have laughed in your face. This was a city that needed Batman, but all they got was Rudy Giuliani.
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Commander Chris Hadfield is the first Canadian commander of the International Space Station. (Photo: NASA)
Over the past five months, Commander Chris Hadfield has stolen the hearts of millions as he zooms around the Earth’s orbit, sending tweets to internet users far below. These correspondences, like thousands of digital message-in-a-bottles, spanned multiple mediums and ranged from the playful to the poetic. But together, they formed Hadfield’s invitation to the public to join him in his fascination and love of science.
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A female black widow spider spins her web. (Photo: US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
Female black widow spiders are known for the rather cruel treatment of their mates; the ‘widow’ in the name gets its origin from the female spider’s unromantic habit of eating her partner after mating. However, according to a new study released this week, there may be black widowers as well.
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