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Explore, Educate, Engage! NOVA supports science teachers with great media for 39 seasons! Visit us on the web at www.pbs.org/nova/education

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Gross science: This parasite crawls into a fish's mouth and replaces its tongue. Enough said.

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For more, visit this story from NASA.

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Fast-growing sun spot observed by NASA's SDO.

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Scientists are well on their way to discovering the numerous healing powers of snake venom.

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From Education News- http://www.educationnews.org/higher-education/most-educated-countries/

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Remembering the Challenger Crew

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NOVA: Who Killed Lindbergh’s Baby?

Ch. 5.1: Wednesday 1/30 8:00pm

NOVA is reopening one of the most confounding crime mysteries of all time as a team of expert investigators employs state-of-the-art forensic and behavioral science techniques in an effort to determine what really happened to Lindbergh’s baby—and why. Watch a preview.

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Everything you need to know about glassfrogs-translucent skin, green bones, arm spines, and more!

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This storm on Saturn lasted the longest on record- about 200 days!

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Mars Through Curiosity’s Powerful MAHLI Camera

…since the true clarity of MAHLI has been unleashed, we’ve been treated to some of the most high-resolution views of the rover, Martian landscape and, most importantly, we’ve seen exactly what MAHLI was designed to do: Look closely at Mars rocks and dirt, assembling geological evidence of potential past habitability of Mars. Open gallery…

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A solar eruption, captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO).

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Sunset Seen from the International Space Station

This spectacular image of sunset on the Indian Ocean was taken by astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS). The image presents an edge-on, or limb view, of the Earth’s atmosphere as seen from orbit. The Earth’s curvature is visible along the horizon line, or limb, that extends across the image from center left to lower right. Above the darkened surface of the Earth, a brilliant sequence of colors roughly denotes several layers of the atmosphere.

Deep oranges and yellows appear in the troposphere, which extends from the Earth’s surface to 6–20 km high. This layer contains over 80 percent of the mass of the atmosphere and almost all of the water vapor, clouds, and precipitation. Several dark cloud layers are visible within this layer. Variations in the colors are due mainly to varying concentrations of either clouds or aerosols (airborne particles or droplets).

The pink to white region above the clouds appears to be the lower stratosphere; this atmospheric layer generally has few or no clouds, and it extends up to approximately 50 kilometers above the Earth’s surface. Above the stratosphere, blue layers likely mark the transition between the middle and upper atmosphere as it gradually fades into the blackness of outer space.

The ISS was located over the southern Indian Ocean when this picture was taken, with the astronaut looking towards the west. Astronauts aboard the ISS see 16 sunrises and sunsets per day due to their high orbital velocity (greater than 28,000 km per hour). The multiple chances for photography are fortunate because at that speed, each sunrise or sunset only lasts a few seconds!

Source: Earth Observatory

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Check out National Geographic's best space photographs of 2012.

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Amazing photo of the newly discovered penguin colony in Antarctica.

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Humans visit and confirm existence of penguin colony

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The existence of a 9,000-strong colony of emperor penguins in East Antarctica has been confirmed by three people who visited it for the first time.

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