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FRIDAY: Hialeah Principal Honored as One of Top Six in Florida

Hialeah, Fla. – Florida TaxWatch will be joined by several state lawmakers to honor Mater Academy Charter School Principal Judith Marty as one of six recipients of the 2015 Florida TaxWatch Principal Leadership Awards. The 3rd annual program honors the ... >> view original

'We've got to look after this planet' says winner of Nikon Small World contest

(CNN) A photo that brings viewers face-to-face with a honey bee has won a prestigious international photography contest that celebrates microscopic imagery in a blend of art and science. Australian Ralph Grimm took the top prize in the annual Nikon ... >> view original

Virtual spinning globe of Jupiter offers new look at Great Red Spot

Thanks to NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, we now have a new glimpse at Jupiter's most iconic feature - the Great Red Spot. New images show a wispy filament stream across the width of the red vortex, while a strange wave undulates just north of the ... >> view original

Analysis Of Ancient Eggshells Reveals Body Temperature Of Dinosaurs

When talking about body temperature regulation methods of animals both living and extinct, there is more than just “warm or cold-blooded”. Birds and placental mammals are the stereotypical warm-blooded animals, and reptiles are well-known cold-blooded ... >> view original

Miami Is Sinking, but Might Just Teach the World to Deal With Sea-Level Rise

Unless you're a GOP presidential candidate, you've probably accepted the facts by now: The global climate is changing. The seas are rising. And at some point, low-lying Miami-Dade County is going to do the whole Atlantis thing. The latest evidence came ... >> view original

San Francisco tourists witness Great White shark devour seal just outside of ...

Shark week is over, but Sharktober's just begun. Tourists got a first-hand look at the San Francisco Bay's food chain in action as they witnessed a hungry Great White shark devour a seal by Alcatraz Island. In a video recorded by Meredith Coppolo ... >> view original

Something fishy: How climate change reaches into the ocean

Box fish. Cocos Island, 300 miles off the Pacific coast, is an isolated ocean oasis that lures divers with some of the best big-animal scuba diving in the world. Melanie Stetson Freeman/The Christian Science Monitor/File. View Caption. About video ads. >> view original

Climate models used to explain formation of Mars valley networks

IMAGE: The Colorado River canyon, just above Grand Canyon (left), and Nanedi Vallis on Mars (right) pictured at the same scale shows how both canyons were formed by rivers that appear... view more. Credit: Sonny Harman/Penn State. The extensive valley ... >> view original

Stonehenge builders promoted barbeque-style roasting and mass gatherings: Study

Researchers have suggested through a study of animal bones and pottery analysis that Stonehenge builders may have barbecued in open-air mass gatherings. Researchers at Universities of York and Sheffield carried out comprehensive analysis of the ... >> view original

NASA's Cassini Probe Gets Up Close With Saturn's Moon Enceladus

NASA's Cassini spacecraft will have a series of three close encounters with Saturn moon Enceladus starting Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2015.more +. 0 Shares. Email · NASA's Cassini probe this morning made its first of three final flybys of Saturn's large, icy ... >> view original