New research explains why Antarctic sea ice has grown and other top stories.

• New research explains why Antarctic sea ice has grown

  

  Summer sea ice and a large iceberg near Antarctica's Totten Glacier. While sea ice in the Arctic has shrunk remarkably over the past few decades, sea ice around Antarctica has been dancing to the beat of a different drum. You might expect that as the world warms, sea ice would dwindle no matter which end of the planet it’s on, but the two regions are quite different. Further ReadingAnalysis finds some areas made more vulnerable by wind patterns. While the North Pole sits in an ocean surround..

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• Evidence of Neanderthal cannibalism discovered

  

  Neanderthal bones from an excavation in Goyet caves in Belgium have yielded evidence of intentional butchering: researchers Scientists have uncovered grisly evidence that shows Neanderthals butchered their own kind some 40,000 years ago, the first evidence of cannibalism among the ancient human relatives in the north of the Alps. Neanderthal bones from an excavation in Goyet caves in Belgium have yielded evidence of intentional butchering, researchers said.They also used bones as tools The sk..

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• Astronomers Find Water Clouds Outside Solar System For The First Time

  

  Astronomers have found evidence that the brown dwarf WISE 0855 has atmospheric water vapor and clouds. The object has water-absorbing features similar to what was observed in Jupiter's atmosphere.  ( Joy Pollard | Gemini Observatory/AURA ) Astronomers have, for the first time, found evidence of water clouds on a body lying outside of the solar system. The clouds of water, which were discovered around a very cold object called WISE 0855, were to be reported in the Astrophysical Jo..

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• Mountain Lions: Five Kittens Discovered in Santa Susana Mountains

  

  THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. -- National Park Service researchers recently discovered two litters of mountain lion kittens in the eastern Santa Susana Mountains. A total of five kittens, three females and two males, were eartagged and returned to their respective dens earlier this month.The Santa Susanas are a large mountain range that provides a critical habitat connection between the Santa Monica Mountains to the south and Los Padres National Forest to the north."Despite the challenges mountain lions..

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• NASA: Dawn Maps Ceres Crater Where Water Ice Accumulates

  

  Jul 10, 2016 04:08 AM EDT Extending Dawn's mission to Ceres proved to be worth it as scientists, with the help of the spacecraft, identified shadowed regions where water ice accumulates on the dwarf planet.   Water ice on dwarf planet #Ceres? Permenantly shadowed area may have trapped it there: https://t.co/XXNtCcbWiChttps://t.co/WZWNTLHurQ — NASA (@NASA) July 8, 2016    Some areas in Ceres, located in the asteroid belt, are permanently "shadowed" and scientists have long been suggesting t..

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• Move over, Tatooine: Planet discovered orbiting three suns

  

  Credit: European Southern Observatory/ESO.L. Calcada Astronomers have discovered a planet with three suns, where an observer would experience either constant daylight or triple sunrises and sunsets depending on the seasons, which last longer than a human lifetime. × Move over, Tatooine: Planet discovered orbiting three suns Credit: European Southern Observatory/ESO.L. Calcada Astronomers have discovered a planet with three suns, where an observer would experience either constant dayl..

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• Planets aplenty, 2 great celestial huggings

  

  Article Tools JUPITER AND THE CONSTELLATION LEO THE LION VENUS AND MERCURY IN THE VERY LOW WEST NORTHWEST EVENING TWILIGHT SKY It’s been awhile since we’ve had all five fellow planets in our solar system visible to the naked eye. Four of the five are arranged in two pairs and one of them is a lone wolf, and all are available in the early evening. Three out of the five planets are easy to see, but two of them are toughies. Hey, stargazing challenges can be a lot of fun! Let’s start ..

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• Goats: Man's New Best Friend? Science Says It's Possible

  

  The connection is indisputable. When a man or woman locks eyes with his or her dog, something familiar happens: A glimpse of recognition. Studies indicate that dogs are about as receptive to human communication as six-month-old babies. But have you ever gazed into the slit-shaped horizontal pupils of a goat?No? Me neither! But if you did, you might notice a familiar flicker. According to a new study published in the journal Biology Letters, these bleating beasts have about the same capacity to..

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