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10 romantic movies for Valentine's Day
Check out these 10 movies for the holiday
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Quadrantid meteors and 11 other big skywatching events of 2012
What lies ahead sky-wise for 2012? Joe Rao, SPACE.com Skywatching Columnist, selected what he considers to be the top 12 "skylights" for this coming year,
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Falling satellite: 10 times space junk has crashed into Earth
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Existing home sales dip, but prices vary wildly. Top 5 most, least expensive cities.
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Photos of the Day: Photos of the Day 03/23
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Where can today's total solar eclipse be seen?
Most of the world's population will be far from the eclipse's path. But anyone with access to the Internet can follow the action live.
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'One for the Books,' 'The Little Bookstore of Big Stone Gap' and 'My Bookstore'
Several fall releases celebrate books and the writers who love them.
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Plan for Mormon temple rattles Catholics in a French suburb
In the Parisian suburb of Le Chesnay, plans to build the first Mormon temple in mainland France has revealed insecurities about the minority status of Catholics in France.
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Not a trick or a treat: Hurricane Sandy could hit as monster hybrid storm
Hurricane Sandy, currently a category 2 storm, is taking aim at the Northeast in the days before Halloween. Forecasters say it could cause widespread power outages and dangerous flooding.
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World's longest flight: cancelled
World's longest commercial flight, from Singapore to Newark, New Jersey, is being cancelled by Singapore Airlines. The world's longest flight, flown in a gas-guzzling Airbus A340-500s, proved too costly for the airline.
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Staying warm could be a bit pricey this winter. Is anyone to blame?
In the blame game for this winter's anticipated high heating costs, some point a finger at Obama, and others the oil industry. But energy analysts say expected cold weather is the major culprit.
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SpaceX Dragon: Private space capsule delivers precious cargo to space station
The unmanned Dragon spacecraft was captured by station astronauts using a robotic arm after an apparently flawless approach by the cargo-laden space capsule.
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Snow on the way? Why forecasters see a big winter for much of eastern US.
AccuWeather is forecasting above-normal snowfall from the southern Appalachians to southern New England. The biggest storms, it says, will take place in January and February.
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Amateur astronomers spot humongous explosion on Jupiter (+video)
A possible comet or asteroid's impact on Jupiter Monday caused an explosion that was recorded on video by an amateur space watcher here on Earth.
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New Mars theory paints a drier picture of the Red Planet (+video)
Since water is thought to be essential for all life, the Martian clay findings complicate the question of whether early Mars was likely to have been hospitable to life.
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Did researchers spot Amelia Earhart's plane? (+video)
Researchers on an expedition to the South Pacific to discover the fate of Amelia Earhart and her navigator say they have spotted a field of manmade debris in an underwater video taken in waters off the Republic of Kiribati.
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Opinion: This Shark Week, let's love an animal that scares us
As Shark Week appears on the Discovery Channel for the 25th year, I have to wonder whether in another 25 years, it will air on The History Channel instead. After more than 400 million years on planet Earth, sharks are being decimated by overfishing and the lucrative trade in shark fins.
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Tropical Storm Ernesto races across Yucatan Peninsula
There were no immediate reports of storm deaths or major damage, though Ernesto ripped down billboards, toppled trees and cut electricity service as it hit the cruise ship port of Mahahual shortly before midnight Tuesday as a hurricane.
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Reader recommendation: Flyboys
Monitor readers share their favorite book picks.
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Is global warming behind the recent heat waves? (+video)
The unusual heat waves felt in Texas, Oklahoma, Moscow, and elsewhere in recent years are almost certainly a result of global warming, according to a study led by NASA scientist and climate activist James Hansen.
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Nearly half of North America's aerosols come from Asia, Sahara
Nearly half of the tiny particles found high in the atmosphere over North America come from foreign lands, with 88 percent of that coming from Asia.
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Oceans, plants help put the brakes on global warming, study finds (+video)
Earth's oceans and plants are now absorbing more than twice the amount of carbon dioxide that they soaked up in 1960, helping to slow global warming, a new study has found.
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Unmanned Russian cargo ship undocks from space station
After its automated docking system failed the first time, the Russian Progress 47 cargo ship successfully passed its second test on Saturday. Now it has un-docked, and is scheduled to burn up in the Earth's atmosphere.
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Japanese spacecraft docks with Space Station
Unlike the recent failed Russian's test mission, a robotic Japanese spacecraft successfully docked with the International Space Station Friday.
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Amelia Earhart: Why the mystery continues (+video)
Today's Google Doodle honors Amelia Earhart even as the latest $2.2 million search for her plane runs afoul of a Pacific Island reef. The famous aviatrix would have been 115 today.
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Orion space capsule: NASA gets ready for 2014 test launch
NASA has unveied the brand new Orion space capsule, which is expected to have its first test launch in spring 2014.
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Video shows highlights of SpaceX Dragon ISS docking
Dragon is the first US spacecraft to attach to the International Space Station since the end of the Space Shuttle program, in July 2011.
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Expect more weird weather, says NOAA
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's annual report draws connections between the extreme weather events of 2011 and a warming climate.
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Hurricane Emilia packs the biggest punch of 2012 season
Hurricane Emilia has swelled to a Category 4 hurricane, the first major hurricane of this season. Hurricane Emilia, 700 miles southwest of Baja California, is expected to go out to sea.
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213 miles up, Chinese astronauts achieve milestone (+Video)
A trio of Chinese astronauts successfully manually docked their space capsule to a prototype orbiting module on Sunday.
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