NASA launches Advanced Geostationary Weather Satellite for NOAA and other top stories.

• NASA launches Advanced Geostationary Weather Satellite for NOAA

  

  NASA successfully launched for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) the first in a series of highly advanced geostationary weather satellites Saturday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. NOAA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-R (GOES-R) lifted off at 6:42 p.m. EST on its way to boost the nation's weather observation capabilities, leading to more accurate and timely forecasts, watches and warnings. "The launch of GOES-R represents a..

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• Is EmDrive Real? NASA Paper On 'Impossible' Propulsion System Passes Peer Review

  

  Can you drive a car by getting on the front seat and pushing the windshield? The answer, as anyone familiar with high-school level physics would tell you, is no. Newton’s third law of motion — for every action has an equal and opposite reaction — explicitly prohibits this.However, after months of rumors, speculation and criticism, a peer-reviewed study published last week in the Journal of Propulsion and Power claims to have shown a propulsion system that, to all appearances violates this cardin..

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• Global Trumpism Seen Harming Efforts to Reduce Climate Pollution

  

  Populism is drawing momentum from environmentalism in the U.S. and Europe, threatening the world’s effort to rein in climate change.Donald Trump’s election in the U.S., the U.K. Independence Party and Marine Le Pen’s ascent in France all represent a break with political leaders who made the environment a priority. All three are skeptical climate change is happening and are resistant to international projects like the United Nations global warming talks.Envoys from more than 190 countries gather..

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• Whale spotted in Hudson River for third time in less than a week

  

  Eagle-eyed water watchers spotted a whale in the Hudson River off the Holland Tunnel Sunday, marking the third time in less than a week the bunker-hungry mammal has surfaced in the city's waterways. The Coast Guard warned maritime vessels to watch ...

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• In His Passionate Pro-Science Proposal, Dan Rather Misreads Donald Trump

  

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• Stephen Hawking: Humans won't live another 1000 years on Earth

  

  The world’s most celebrated physicist and cosmologist issued a call for humans to “continue to go into space for the future of humanity.”“I don’t think we will survive another 1,000 years without escaping beyond our fragile planet,” Stephen Hawking said while delivering a lecture on the universe and the origins of humans at the Oxford Union debating society on Monday, according to the British newspaper The Independent. Despite the dire warning, Hawking also tried to sound a hopeful note about th..

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• Science Channel Scraps 'Punkin Chunkin' Special After Woman Badly Injured in Accident

  

  Jim Dietz/AP/REX/Shutterstock Science Channel has scrapped its plan for a three-hour “Punkin Chunkin” special on Nov. 26 after an accident during the event earlier this month in Delaware left a woman in critical condition. “Punkin Chunkin” is a competitive event organized by the World Championship Punkin Chunkin Association in which teams compete to hurl pumpkins long distances with the use of elaborate homemade mechanical launchers. This year was to mark the event’s return to TV with a new ..

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• Why Does The Earth Pull On One Side Of The Moon More? Is The Moon Lopsided?

  

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• Global Warming Melts Polar Ice To Record Lows As Temperatures Rise Under Climate Change Effects

  

  They are quite literally poles apart but both the North Pole and the South Pole have something unfortunate in common at the moment: They are both seeing the lowest levels of sea ice since modern record-keeping began.News about the Arctic sea ice being at its lowest level ever for this time of the year — it hits its minimum in September and starts to build up again in October as the six-monthlong polar winter sets in — came a few days ago. Temperatures near North Pole are said to be 36 degrees hi..

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