NASA asks public to share cloud photos to help confirm satellite data

NASA has revealed it's using a rare strategy to help verify data from the Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES): asking the public for help. The space agency says its satellites sometimes have difficulty identifying and separating clouds, so it's having citizen scientists submit photos of clouds from the ground in order to compare data.

Dollar Tree same-store sales and forecast disappoint, sending shares lower

Discount store operator Dollar Tree reported disappointing holiday quarter results, hurt by lower-than-expected sales at both Dollar Tree and Family Dollar stores, and issued a full-year profit outlook that was well below estimates. The company's shares sank 13 percent in premarket trading on Wednesday.

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Sexy Russian curler is a stunner off the ice

Russian curler Anastasia Bryzgalova is sending the internet into a frenzy as much for what she's done off the ice as on it. Clips of the 25-year-old Slavic stunner working out at the gym or smacking around a paddle ball with her hubby/Olympics partner, Aleksandr Krushelnitckii, are really getting viewers' heart rates up, as are her scorching hot bikini snaps and videos.

Amazon sex toys mystery: Unsolicited parcels sent to strangers

Amazon has become known as the everything store, selling everything from pots and pans to books and furniture. It's racked up hundreds of billions in revenue and is now worth over $700 billion, making it the third-largest company in the S&P 500 by market cap, behind only Apple and #Google.

The black box set to revolutionize the search for life beyond Earth

In the world's driest desert, an unassuming black box called "Espresso" is about to begin a very big mission: scouring the universe for planets like ours to find signs of life beyond Earth. Espresso, an instrument known as a spectrograph, has a humble appearance that belies its cutting-edge technology: it is the most precise instrument of its kind ever built, 10 times stronger than its most...

Infraud: US takes down international identity theft ring

Tens of thousands of users of the Infraud network reportedly ripped off consumers for $530 million over seven years. US authorities have already arrested 13 of the group's ringleaders.

Smith, Culberson: Space telescopes promise a universe of discovery

When one first focuses on the Ultra Deep Field image, captured by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2004, it appears to be just a photo of the night sky. Dots, stars at first glance, clutter the image, but a longer, closer look leads to wonder and amazement. The image, which is a piece of the sky about the size of a penny at arm's length, shows that the "stars" are really galaxies, an estimated 10,000!

Workers at FedEx and Honeywell latest to benefit from corporate tax cut windfall.

Add FedEx and Honeywell to the growing list of big American companies that are sharing some of the windfall from a lower tax rate with workers. FedEx announced Friday that it will increase employee compensation by over $200 million following the recently enacted U.S. Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. About two-thirds will go to hourly team members, by "advancing" 2018 annual pay increases by six months to April 1st...

New French Telescope Trio Will Scan the Sky for Earth-Like Planets

French researchers with the European Southern Observatory (ESO) now have new tech in their toolbox: the ExTrA telescopes at the La Silla Observatory in northern Chile.

Rocket Lab secretly launched a disco ball satellite on its latest test flight

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