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Science Graphic of the Week: Arctic Sea Ice Takes a Hit From Warm Rivers
Sea surface temperatures on July 5, 2012, in the Beaufort Sea, measured by the MODIS instrument on NASA's Terra satellite. Note the blooming red indicating the extent of warm water infiltration. (NASA) For our second Science Graphic of the Week, we bring you some beautiful views of some bad news. The images in the gallery above show how pulses of warm water, dumped into chilly Arctic seas by river
WIRED Space Photo of the Day 2013
Follow Space Photo of the Day on Twitter The 2012 WIRED Space Photo of the Day Gallery A storm of stars is brewing in the Trifid nebula, as seen in this view from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE. The stellar nursery, where baby stars are bursting into being, is the yellow-and-orange object dominating the picture. Yellow bars in the nebula appear to cut a cavity into three secti
Is Big Data the Next Big Brother?
Image: Thomas Leuthard/Flickr In 1949 when George Orwell wrote the novel “1984,” he envisioned a fictional future society focused on mind-control and suppressing individuality. This society was lead by a fictional leader Big Brother who was all knowing and omnipresent of everything that you did. Even when the calendar actually rolled around to 1984, the notion of Big Brother seemed a non-sensical
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