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Hawaii
About 2 to 3 million years ago, a group of spiders let out long silk threads into the wind and set sail, so to speak, across the Pacific Ocean to Hawaii. These spiders were parasites of other spiders…
The island chain of Hawaii consists of several volcanoes, which are fed by a "hotspot." In geosciences a "hotspot" refers to a phenomenon of columnar shaped streams, which transpo…
A strange sight in the sky over Oahu caught the attention of many people overnight. We received several messages via the Report It feature on our website from viewers who saw the lights. By …
Every night, the Gemini cloudcam atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii monitor storms approaching some of the world's largest telescopes. It often captures bright bolts of lightning lancing down to the …
Four men and two women will spend eight months in a dome on a Hawaiian volcano, as part of a human behavior study designed to help NASA prepare astronauts for the journey to Mars. January 21,…
