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On Thursday, NOAA abruptly cut short the fishing season for Atlantic cod, which has experienced severe population decline in recent years. That same day, Google Earth Outreach and two partner organizations released a prototype of a new online platform to track overfishing. Rosetta's Philae lander races against time as battery life dwindles (+video) Philae appears to have landed in the shadow of a rock, rendering its solar panels at least temporarily useless in terms of recharging the lander's batteries. Will a warmer climate mean more lightning? Yes, say scientists. Using a mathematical formula and basic physics, scientists have shown that for every degree Fahrenheit the globe warms, there will be a 7 percent increase in lightning strikes. Philae fashion faux pas: Rosetta scientist apologizes for offensive shirt Rosetta scientist Matt Taylor chose a bowling shirt covered in buxom leather-clad babes to update the world on the first-ever comet landing. Women in the scientific community were not amused. Why are all these starfish suddenly turning into goo? (+video) Marine ecologists have been witnessing mass mortality of starfish along the Northeast Pacific coast, and a team of scientists now believes they have identified the degenerative disease behind their deaths. Can we clone a woolly mammoth? Should we? A woolly mammoth discovered in Siberia in 2013 might contain enough DNA to make it possible to clone the extinct animal. Scientists 'confident' comet lander will wake up The Philae lander is expected to wake up once it nears the sun, scientists involved in the project believe. Liquid water once flowed on Mars – but only episodically, study suggests Volcanic eruptions on Mars may have triggered the climate conditions that allowed liquid water to pool on the Red Planet early in its history, according to a new study published Sunday. Leonid meteor shower to peak Tuesday morning: What to expect If you plan to brave the chill of a mid-November morning, and the prospects of catching a glimpse of only a few Leonids, you should get an award for perseverance. Philae, now silent, was an 'incredible scientific success' (+video) The European Space Agency's Philae lander has ended its brief, historic mission to the surface of a comet, giving scientists an unprecedented look at the structure and composition of a comet's nucleus. Follow Stories Like This Get the Monitor stories you care about delivered to your inbox. November 18, 2014 Photos of the day 11/18 Rachel Miller drives her dogs Aja and Ivan in Kalamazoo, Mich. A November snow storm has dumped as much as a foot of snow in the area. View Gallery More Science view all Baby elephant 'Hercules' perseveres in face of 14-lion attack Guests on a game drive in Zambia captured on camera one elephant's battle to survive an attack by more than a dozen lionesses. Rosetta's Philae landed on edge of precipice (+video) The little lander that could bounced twice before settling in the shadow of a rock. Despite thruster problems, Philae landed upright and is transmitting data to the European Space Agency. Rosetta's Philae completes historic landing, but fails to anchor to comet Wednesday saw a historic space-exploration first: the soft landing of an experiment-laden package – Philae – on a comet. But then the news came that the lander had failed to anchor its harpoon to the comet. Will Philae successfully land on comet? Thruster trouble heightens drama. The European Space Agency's Rosetta comet orbiter released Philae at 3:35 a.m. ET Wednesday for a painstakingly slow descent to the comet. Touchdown is expected to occur some seven hours later. How spacecraft chased a comet 300 million miles, and is poised for a landing (+video) On Wednesday, the European Space Agency's Rosetta mission will try for a first-ever landing of a spacecraft on a comet. The comet in question, 67P, is shaped a little like a rubber ducky and is traveling at speeds greater than 34,000 miles per hour. Underwater robot 'dolphins' offer clues to Antarctic melt Warm waters are melting Antarctica's ice sheet at an unprecedented rate, but scientists have been unsure how such warm water is finding its way to one of the coldest regions of the planet. Until now. Ice Age infant burial ground offers clues to life for early Arctic settlers (+video) Researchers say that the skeletons, which are approximately 11,500 years old, are the earliest known human remains from the North American subarctic. Hawaii lava flow update: Lava incinerates home on Hawaii's Big Island (+video) Update: Lava from Hawaii's Pu'u O'o vent has flowed 13.5 miles since June 27, finally engulfing a house on Monday. Until this week, no Hawaiian homes had been lost to lava since 2012. Cassini reveals incredible vanishing 'Magic Islands' on Saturn's largest moon (+video) Data captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft have enabled planetary scientists to gather the first-ever oceanographic measurements of a body of liquid on another planet. Soyuz spacecraft returns astronauts to Earth (+video) After more than five months in orbit aboard the International Space Station, three astronauts – an American, a Russian, and a German – are back on Earth, courtesy of a Russian Soyuz spacecraft. Loading... Photos of the Day Photos of the day 11/18 About these ads Popular Now Why is Indonesia subjecting female police applicants to virginity tests? Islamic State fighters pushed back on fronts in Syria, Iraq (+video) Briefing What did Philae learn in its first 57 hours on the comet? 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