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Satellite to beam solar power to Earth, a la Bond movie
Like a solar satellite in the 2002 Bond movie, Die Another Day, a former president of India plans to launch satellites that catch the suns rays and create a focused microwave beam back to collectors on Earth.
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Milky Way bubbles could signal massive black hole eruption
Milky Way bubbles: The mysterious structures each span 25,000 light-years across, meaning that together they cover more than half the area of the visible sky, and are emitting gamma rays, the highest-energy wavelength of light.
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Scientists find that whales get sunburns, too
Although they live underwater, whales can't avoid sun exposure; they must surface to breathe, and, like us, they have no fur or feathers to protect them from the ultraviolet radiation that travels through the atmosphere's protective ozone layer.
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Mysterious missile off California coast has many puzzled
Mysterious missile: CBS affiliate KCBS caught the launch on camera and reported that military officials were 'tight-lipped over the nature of the projectile.'
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New York City ants find a home in street medians
New York City ants have been discovered in street medians. Researchers found a variety of ant species and the ability to create nests in concrete.
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Comet Hartley 2 flyby yields stunning photos of a cosmic oddball
NASA's EPOXI spacecraft on Thursday began an unprecedented weeks-long rendezvous with Hartley 2 – a wasp-waisted comet of dry ice that spews cyanide into space.
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Comet Hartley 2: NASA rendezvous a success, even better pics on the way
NASA's EPOXI craft radios 'I'm still alive' to mission control and sends back the first five close-up images of tiny, pockmarked Comet Hartley 2. Scientists eagerly await the photos in high-def.
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Comet Hartley 2: EPOXI probe flyby to yield rare close-up photos
Comet Hartley 2 will get its portrait taken on Thursday by NASA's EPOXI spacecraft. NASA will snap 6,000 high-resolution images of 103P/Hartley 2, a small comet that hangs out around Jupiter's orbit.
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World's smallest frog is also poisonous, research finds
Native to Cuba, the tiny Mount Iberia frog packs a poison punch, thanks to its diet of alkaloid-laden mites.
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Quake-ravaged Haiti braces for tropical storm Tomas
Aid groups and the Haitian government try to prepare as tropical storm Tomas threatens to regain hurricane strength. More than 1 million people live in tents on the rubble-strewn island nation.
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Bright Venus may prompt UFO sightings
An extended daylight savings time will mean that Venus will shine bright in the eastern sky in the morning, likely prompting a bevy of UFO sightings.
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Baby dinosaur footprints discovered near Denver
Footprints of a baby Apatosaurus, roughly the size of a pug dog, were spotted in the foothills near Denver.
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Astronauts cast their votes 220 miles above Earth
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station have had the option to vote for their local county elections from orbit. The ballots are prepared by county officials and beamed up from Mission Control.
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Space shuttle Discovery on its last mission: Where to watch the launch
Space shuttle Discovery will lift off for the last time on Wednesday, Nov. 3. Here are a few tips on how to get a good seat to watch the launch.
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Humongous sinkhole opens up in Germany
A giant sinkhole opened up in a residential area of the town of Schmalkalden, Germany, Monday, causing no injuries but forcing the evacuation of 25 people.
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Did scientists breed mice that 'smell' light?
A group of scientists genetically altered mice to allow them to 'smell' light in a study designed to a mouse brain's response to outside stimuli.
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Other Earths? A new estimate raises the odds of finding them.
Researchers predict finding many Earth-sized planets around sun-like stars, right in our own galaxy. But don't pack your bags just yet – you might not want to live on them.
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Charlie Chaplin time traveler debunked: It's just a hearing aid
Charlie Chaplin time traveler: A scene of a supposed time traveler talking on her cellphone in a 1928 Hollywood film probably just shows someone with a simple ear trumpet.
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Top 10 time travelers
Strictly speaking, we're all one-way time travelers: plodding forward through the progress of existence second-by-second. And thanks to special relativity, you could, in principle, skip ahead into the future by traveling at a very high speed relative to your contemporaries. But that, too, would be a one-way trip. As for travel back in time? Some physicists cautiously speculate that it is possible, but only time will tell. In the meantime, here are our top ten favorite fictional time travelers.
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Time traveler caught on film. Hey, why not?
Time traveler caught on film: An Irish filmmaker has uncovered evidence of a woman speaking into a cellphone in a 1928 Charlie Chaplin film. And clearly there's no other possible explanation.
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