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Closest Approach Ever By A Large Asteroid Won’t End Life On Earth, But Probably Should
Oh Florence, we really needed you this month. There’s a petulant species of brainy apes that just can’t seem to get along and who probably deserve to be completely wiped out in a fiery collision. But there you go, flying right on by.
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NASA’s New Orbiter Will Watch Plants Photosynthesise From Space
For the last 25 years, scientists have been able to monitor the “greenness” of trees from space and use that as a tool for evaluating plant health. The problem is that greenness isn’t a good indicator for stresses — such as drought — because some trees (think pines) continue to be a lovely green until…