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Giant sheets of ice creep onto Minnesota shore, surge toward houses

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NBC News - Daniel Arkin, 5/12/13

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Minnesotans saw scenes reminiscent of a Hollywood sci-fi spectacle this weekend when massive waves of ice surged out of the water and crept onto the shore like some fast-moving glacier.

 
 

Powerful gusts of wind drove giant sheets of ice toward townhouses hugging the southern lip of Lake Mille Lacs at the northwest end of the state.

 

 

Teensy alien-looking skeleton from Chile poses a medical mystery

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NBC News - By Jeanna Bryner, LiveScience , 4/30/13

A 6-inch-long (15-centimeter-long) skeleton was found in Chile's Atacama Desert. The skeleton showed several anomalies, including its alienlike skull, teensy body and the fact that it had just 10 ribs rather than the 12 that healthy humans normally have. Sirius via YouTube

 

A teensy skeleton with a squashed alienlike head may have earthly origins — but the remains, found in Chile's Atacama Desert a decade ago, do make for quite a medical mystery.

Comet PanSTARRS warms up for celestial double feature's first show

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NBC News - Alan Boyle, Updated 2/25/13

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Comet PanSTARRS glows with a fanlike tail in this picture from Argentine astrophotographer Ignacio Diaz Bobillo.

The first of two comets expected to make a splash this year is already putting on a good show for Southern Hemisphere skywatchers — and by the time it makes its appearance in northern skies, Comet PanSTARRS should be visible to the naked eye.

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