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Sunday, February 5, 2012

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  • Kazakh eagle hunters hunting on horseback in the Altai mountains.

    Native American Birthplace Found?

    The genetic homeland of Native Americans is a small mountainous region in southern Siberia, a new study suggests.

  • Two charging rhinos.

    Mammal-Size Evolution Explained

    For mammals, evolving into bigger sizes takes a lot longer than shrinking, new evolution study shows.

  • Space station picture: city lights of Europe seen from the ISS

    Space Pictures This Week

    Hubble captures a Milky Way "twin," winds shape Mars lava fields, stars carve a nebula's face, and more in the week's best space pictures.

  • A glacier

    Antarctic Crack = NYC-Size Iceberg

    A vast iceberg is splitting from Antarctica, thanks to a giant crack in a glacier that's "really important" to sea level rise.

  • An illustration of exoplanet GJ667C.

    New "Super Earth" Found

    The likely rocky planet orbits squarely in its star's habitable zone, making it a prime candidate for life, astronomers report.

  • Mouse eye picture: one of the best science pictures of 2011

    Best Science Pictures of 2011?

    A spiny cucumber and a nanotube "city" feature among the winners of the 2011 International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge.

  • A view of volcanic Io orbiting giant Jupiter.

    New Jupiter Moons Found

    Two tiny satellites add to the planet's swarm of "backward" moons and bring the full Jovian family up to 66 natural satellites.

  • A scientist collects bacteria from a blue hole.

    Blue Holes Yield New Life-Forms

    Bacteria in water-filled Caribbean sinkholes could offer clues to what might live on icy moons such as Europa, scientists say.

  • A groundhog and his handler.

    Groundhog Day: Phil's Forecast Is In

    Early spring or long winter? "Immortal" rodent Punxsutawney Phil has made the call. Get the odd facts behind Groundhog Day 2012.

  • Hunley picture: Civil War submarine revealed

    Pictures: Civil War Sub Revealed

    See the wreck of the Hunley—the world's first submarine to sink an enemy ship—finally unveiled after 11 years in a steel truss.

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