Definition of northern hemisphere
: the half of the earth that lies north of the equator
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Surprisingly enough, scientists often look to Australia as a predictor of flu season in the northern hemisphere, USA Today reports.
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At this very moment, squirrels throughout the northern hemisphere are busy getting fat and fluffy for the winter.
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That would be the first nuclear explosion in the atmosphere in decades, with radiation effects throughout the northern hemisphere.
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As seasons on Saturn last about seven Earth years each, Cassini was just able to witness summer in the northern hemisphere before the mission ended.
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La Nina forms in the northern hemisphere’s winter every two to seven years.
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University of Alaska researcher Alexander Kholodov studies permafrost loss using hundreds of sensors around the northern hemisphere.
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As Titan’s northern hemisphere emerged from the darkness of winter in 2009, Cassini registered the dazzling glint of sunlight reflecting off a lake, confirming that liquid fills its vast northern basins.
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When Caesar exhaled that last breath, all those molecules got spread across the Earth, first in a band of prevailing winds around the same latitude as Italy, then over the northern hemisphere.
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