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Space Shuttle Discovery ready to launch
The Space Shuttle Discovery is ready for its final flight to the International Space Station Thursday, say NASA officials.
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How climate change models could get better, thanks to NASA
NASA is set to launch satellite Glory early Wednesday. It will measure incoming sunlight and atmospheric particles, both key to crafting better climate models.
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Study: Eating bugs could reduce global warming
For much of the world, eating insects — officially called entomophagy — is neither strange nor disgusting nor exotic.
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Why Tuesday's New Zealand earthquake was deadlier than previous one
A magnitude 6.3 New Zealand earthquake destroyed local landmarks and killed 65, according to local reports. A nearby magnitude 7.0 earthquake in September 2010 killed none.
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Is the Big Dipper scooping dark matter?
Scientists peered through a galactic window in the ladle of the Big Dipper, using the Herschel telescope to look 10 billion years backwards in time and investigate the origins of galaxies, which turn out to require 20 times less dark matter than previously calculated.
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Geomagnetic storm activity increasing, catastrophe looming?
Geomagnetic storm: A true monster storm has the potential to wreak havoc on a global scale, knocking out communications systems, endangering satellites and astronauts and causing perhaps trillions of dollars in damages.
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Stars hurtling through space could someday mess up our cosmic neighborhood
Researchers calculated the orbits of 40,000 low-mass M-dwarf stars and found 18 that may come dangerously close to our cosmic neighborhood in the next billion years. While the chances of this actually happening are probably slim, researchers said, the results could be dramatic.
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What hibernating bears can tell us about space travel
Scientists studying hibernation discovered that bears' super-slow metabolism may provide clues for treating trauma patients and preparing for spaceflight.
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Solar flare 2011: How a dazzling display can wreak electrical havoc
Solar flare 2011: A massive eruption of charged solar plasma glanced off the earth this week, a reminder that our star can still surprise us.
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Solar flare wreaking havoc on Earth's radio communications
Solar flare: A massive blast of charged particles ejected from the sun Monday has triggered a geomagnetic storm that is disrupting radio communications.
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Extreme rain and snow events linked to global warming, study finds
Authors say a study that looked at the rise in extreme rain and snowfall in the Northern Hemisphere in the last half of the 20th century is the first to show a link to global warming.
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Huge fireball lights up sky over Eastern US
A massive fireball lit up the daytime sky over much of the East Coast on Monday, as what was most likely a meteor burned up in the earth's atmosphere.
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Solar Flare: A Northern Lights show for North America?
Solar flare - one of the biggest in four years - shot from the sun on Sunday. Scientists predict that a solar flare of this size - and traveling toward Earth - could produce a dramatic light show. Did it?
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Comet Tempel 1: Stardust photos reveal crater that 'partly healed itself'
Photos from the Stardust-NExT rendezvous with comet Tempel 1 are streaming in. Some show a crater that was created by a different NASA mission but never sucessfully photographed.
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Do black holes spin? The answer could be in the photons.
A spinning black hole would swirl the very fabric of space and time around it, as well as distorting the photons that pass nearby.
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72 new images of comet Tempel 1 streaming in from Stardust-NExT flyby
Stardust-NExT sped to within 112 miles of the comet Monday at 11:39 p.m. EST. During the flyby, it snapped 72 new images of comet Tempel-1. Stand by for scientists' analysis of what they see.
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IBM's Watson: Can a computer outsmart a Jeopardy! braniac?
IBM's Watson may school two of Jeopardy!'s top players, but does it represent a true advance in artificial intelligence?
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On Valentine's Day, express your love with a giant hissing cockroach
On Valentine's Day, nothing says 'I love you' more than naming a giant Madagascar hissing cockroach after your beloved. Now the Bronx Zoo is offering just that opportunity.
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Valentine's Day: The word 'Valentine' makes men more chivalrous, study finds
Valentine's Day may bring more than just hearts and flowers. A new study has found that the word 'Valentine' makes men more likely to help out in an emergency.
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Stardust-NExT to make Valentine rendezvous with comet Tempel 1
NASA sent its Deep Impact probe to comet Tempel 1 in 2005, but failed to get the data it wanted. Now, with Stardust-NExT returning this Monday, NASA gets a second shot.
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