 Brilliant Red Sprite Lightning Caught on Film  | Amazing new photos and video of the elusive red lightning called sprites are helping researchers understand how the mysterious electric bursts form.
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| Read More » Mothballed telescope gets new life as asteroid hunter By Irene Klotz CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - NASA will reactivate a mothballed infrared space telescope for a three-year mission to search for potentially dangerous asteroids on a collision course with Earth, officials said on Wednesday. The Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, telescope also will hunt for targets for a future mission to send a robotic spacecraft to rendezvous with a small asteroid and relocate all or part of it into a high orbit around the moon. ... Read More » NASA adds more space launch platforms for sale to private firms By Irene Klotz CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - While NASA considers competing bids to take over a shuttle launch pad at Kennedy Space Center, it added three mobile launch platforms to its list of excess equipment available to private industry, officials said on Tuesday. Ideally, NASA wants a commercial launch company to take over one or more of the massive steel platforms, which were originally built in 1967 to support the Apollo moon program's Saturn rockets. The 25-foot (7.6-meter) tall platforms were later modified for the space shuttles, which flew from 1981 until 2011. ... Read More » US Circumcision Rate Drops Over Last 3 Decades The percentage of newborns who are circumcised in the United States has been on the decline in recent decades, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Read More » Alien Life on Europa? Funding Gap Means We May Never Know (Op-Ed)  | Jeff Nesbit was the director of public affairs for two prominent federal science agencies. This article was adapted from one that first appeared in U.S. News & World Report. Nesbit contributed the article to SPACE.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights.
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| Read More » Air Force Vet Entrepreneur Wages War on Clutter For some, it can feel like it takes an army to keep their house and office organized. Read More » Cosmonauts Spacewalking Outside Space Station Today: Watch It Live Online  | Two Russian cosmonauts living on the International Space Station are taking their second spacewalk in less than a week today (Aug. 22) and you can watch the action live online.
| Read More » Syria: What Is Poisonous Gas?  | Unconfirmed reports indicate the Syrian government may be using poisonous gas against rebels in the ongoing civil insurrection that has engulfed the Middle Eastern country.
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| Read More » New Glue-Spitting Velvet Worm Found in Vietnam  | Small bugs of the rain forest have many things to worry about, assuming they are capable of anxiety. But surely some of their more feared predators are velvet worms, a group of ancient animals that spit an immobilizing, gluelike material onto prey before injecting them with saliva and chomping down.
| Read More » The Amazing Mating Dance of the Peacock Spider  | The animal dances and lifts up its tail-flap, which, once unfurled, resembles an abstract Indian blanket of intense color. The tiny creature hops about, lifts up its legs alternately like an air traffic controller, gesturing this way and that. Its large, furry mouthparts almost make it look like it's smiling, or at least mildly amused at this outrageous act.
| Read More » NASA Extends Life of Gamma-Ray Hunting Fermi Space Telescope  | A NASA space telescope tasked with probing the most powerful explosions in the universe has a new lease on life.
| Read More » NASA Resurrecting Old Space Telescope to Hunt Asteroids  | NASA will reactivate an asteroid-hunting spacecraft next month to help identify potentially dangerous space rocks and flag candidates for the agency's ambitious asteroid-retrieval mission, officials announced Wednesday (Aug. 21).
| Read More » Gordon Fullerton, Space Shuttle Test Pilot, Dies at 76  | Gordon Fullerton, an Apollo-era NASA astronaut who was among the first test pilots to fly the space shuttle, died on Wednesday (Aug. 21), three years after suffering a stroke that left him partially paralyzed. He was 76.
| Read More » Wolves Howl to 'Keep in Touch' with Friends  | A howl pierces the calm night, its eerie majesty a signal that wolves are afoot. But what is the purpose of wolf howls, and what do they mean?
| Read More » Prehistoric Europeans Liked Spicy Food, Study Suggests  | Prehistoric human civilizations in northern Europe may have enjoyed their food with a spicy kick, using a garlic-mustard-type seasoning to flavor their dishes, thousands of years before the height of the prolific global spice trade, a new study finds.
| Read More » Medieval Poison Ring Uncovered in Bulgaria  | Archaeologists have discovered a ring with an inconspicuous cavity that they believe may have been used to hide poison for political murders in medieval Bulgaria.
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| Read More » Nice Curves: Hill Shape Reveals Secrets of Earth Beneath  | The slope of a hill can reveal details about the heaving earth underneath, researchers say.
| Read More » Climate Disinformation Continues to Harm U.S. Communities (Op-Ed)  | Brenda Ekwurzel is a climate scientist and assistant director of climate research and analysis at the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS). This article is adapted from one that first appeared as a guest article on MSNBC.com. Ekwurzel contributed this article to LiveScience's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights
| Read More » Megalodon Myths Dispelled: Sharks Deserve Better than 'Shark Week' (Op-Ed)  | Perrin Ireland is senior science communications specialist for the Natural Resources Defense Council. This post was adapted from one that originally appeared on the NRDC blog Switchboard. Ireland contributed this article to LiveScience's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights
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