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“An ancient meteorite and high-energy X-rays have helped scientists conclude a half century of effort to find, identify, and characterize a mineral that makes up 38 percent of the Earth.” Tona Kunz, in an article for the Argonne National Laboratory, dated December 11, 2014 and with the title above, goes on to say: And in doing so, a team of scientists led by Oliver Tschauner, a mineralogist at the University of Las Vegas,...

“It will take about 11 trillion gallons of water (42 cubic kilometers) — around 1.5 times the maximum volume of the largest U.S. reservoir — to recover from California’s continuing drought, according to a new analysis of NASA satellite data.” The following article is from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, dated December 16, 2014 and with the title above: The finding was part...

“Professor Evan Economo and researchers in the Biodiversity and Biocomplexity Unit compared genetic sequences from hundreds species of Pheidole, a group of ants with mysteriously high diversity. They used these sequences to construct a Pheidole evolutionary tree that suggests Pheidole evolved the same way twice, to take over the New World and then the Old World.” The following article is by Poncie Rutsch, writing for the...