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News briefs from the American Meteorological Society annual meeting being held January 11–15 in Phoenix.Found in: Earth
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Senate energy committee appreciates Obama's pick for Secretary of Energy.Found in: Agriculture, Climate Change, Environment, Matter & Energy, Science & Society and Technology
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Two meteorites retrieved from West Antarctica, fragments of an ancient asteroid, contain a type of rock commonly found in Earth’s crust but previously unseen in meteorites.Found in: Earth and Earth Science
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Were the Earth a crystal ball, you might gaze 2,900 kilometers down to its outer core with a telescope. The Earth, though, is frustratingly opaque — to light. Most knowledge of the planet’s internal structure comes from studying seismic waves, which give a kind of ultrasound image. Inferences about Earth’s internal chemistry rely on the elements found in near-surface rocks, meteorites and the sun. Recently, geoscientists have developed a new tool for probing the Earth’s innards. Borrowing a page from astrophysics, they are using the curious subatomic particles known as neutr...Found in: Astronomy, Earth and Planetary Science
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Satellite data reveal more thunderheads forming as tropical sea-surface temperatures rise.Found in: Climate Change, Earth and Earth Science
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R.K. Pachauri, an engineer and economist by training, is director-general of The Energy and Resources Institute in New Delhi, India, and a corecipient of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for his role as chief of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The IPCC periodically issues consensus reports on the science of climate change. Senior editor Janet Raloff spoke with him about changes he hopes to see from the Obama administration.Found in: Climate Change, Earth Science, Ecology, Environment and Technology
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Science News writers and editors looked back at the past year's stories and selected a handful as the year's most interesting and important in Earth. Follow hotlinks to the full, original stories.Found in: Earth
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Science News reports from San Francisco at the fall meeting of the American Geophysical UnionFound in: Earth
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