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• NASA opens high frontier to education and not-for-profit groups

  WASHINGTON - NASA is announcing a new initiative to launch small cube-shaped satellites for education and not-for-profit organizations. CubeSats are a class of research spacecraft called picosatellites, having a size of approximately four inches, a volume of about one quart, and weighing no more than 2.2 pounds.

• What kind of people would an explorer from another world try not to meet?

  If a spaceship with aliens from other part of the universe would come to our planet and enter a low Earth orbit in order to observe us, where would they find the most savage humans?

• Ice shelves disappearing on Antarctic peninsula - Glacier retreat and sea level rise are possible consequences

  Ice shelves are retreating in the southern section of the Antarctic Peninsula due to climate change. This could result in glacier retreat and sea-level rise if warming continues, threatening coastal communities and low-lying islands worldwide.

• USGS updates assessment of earthquake hazard and safety in Haiti and the Caribbean

  RESTON, Va. - The threat of additional damaging earthquakes in Haiti will remain for the next year.

• Plagued by plague: New research shows widespread risk to wildlife

  The effects of plague on wildlife may have been underestimated in the past, according to research published in a special issue of Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases.