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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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US Open golf: Thompson leads, but Tiger lurks after 1st round
Michael Thompson shot the best score in the field on Thursday. But Tiger Woods, fresh off his win at the Memorial, is in a good position going into Friday.
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Global warming's evil twin threatens West Coast fishing grounds
Within the next few decades, ocean acidification – an effect of global warming – could leave sea creatures along the West Coast unable to maintain their protective shells, according to a new study.
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Spy agency bequeaths two satellites to NASA, free of charge
The National Reconnaissance Office is giving NASA two spare space telescopes free of charge, each potentially more powerful than the Hubble Space Telescope.
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Indonesia rattled by 5.9 earthquake, but no tsunami
Buildings swayed for 10 seconds in Jakarta when a magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck Indonesia Monday.
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As Dragon capsule splashes down, SpaceX begins to convert skeptics (+video)
SpaceX completed a historic demonstration mission to the space station when its Dragon capsule splashed down safely into the Pacific Thursday. Next up, the real thing.
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Next stop for SpaceX's Dragon cargo ship: the Pacific Ocean (+video)
The Dragon cargo ship, the first commercially owned spacecraft to reach the International Space Station, is making its return trip to Earth. SpaceX designed Dragon for reuse, but NASA wants a new one for each mission.
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Horizons SpaceX Dragon capsule will soon be earthbound again
The SpaceX Dragon capsule successfully docked with the International Space Station. Now, it heads back to earth.
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Radioactive tuna travels from Japan to US faster than wind
Low levels of nuclear radiation from the Fukushima power plant have turned up in 15 bluefin tuna caught off San Diego. The fish is not harmful to humans, say researchers.
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SpaceX flyby of space station an historic first
The SpaceX Dragon capsule successfully made its first burn to approach the space station at 3:58 a.m Thursday. It was the final test before the SpaceX capsule docks at the ISS.
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Horizons SpaceX launch, a strong start for commercial spaceflight
With Tuesday's launch of the Dragon space capsule aboard the Falcon 9 rocket, SpaceX made a strong case for the viability of commercial spaceflight. But the craft still has quite a few tests to pass for its mission to be a success.
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SpaceX private rocket to make history on Saturday (+video)
The unmanned Dragon space capsule, built by commercial firm SpaceX, is slated to lift off atop the company's Falcon 9 rocket early Saturday from here at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
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SpaceX launch: A step-by-step guide (+video)
If all goes well on Saturday, SpaceX will launch the very first commercial visit to the International Space Station. Here is how the trip is expected to go.
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How a humongous garbage patch in the Pacific breeds new bugs (+video)
The great Pacific garbage patch has created a new breeding ground for a marine insect, which in turn is changing Pacific ecosystems.
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Junior Seau remembered as fierce NFL competitor
The former Charger, Dolphin and Patriot linebacker died at his California home on Wednesday.
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DARPA hypersonic glider skin peeled off, says Pentagon
Darpa Hypersonic Glider: The Pentagon has explained why it aborted the DARPA hypersonic glider last year. Apparently, the unmanned craft's skin started to peel off as it reached speeds of Mach 20.
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Japan braces for North Korean missile launch
Japan has threatened to shoot down the rocket if it passes over Japanese airspace. In 1998, North Korea sent a missile over Japan's main island.
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US Coast Guard sinks Japanese "ghost ship" (+videos)
The Japanese 'ghost ship' – derelict vessel had been set adrift by last year's tsunami – was sunk to avoid potential navigation hazards. The ghost ship took about four hours to sink after a US Coast Guard cutter fired on it.
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Amazon CEO Bezos will hoist mammoth, antique rocket engines from seafloor (+video)
Using high-tech sonar, an expedition spearheaded by Bezos has discovered what he claimed were discarded engines from the Apollo 11 mission lurking 14,000 feet deep.
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Amazon founder locates Apollo 11 rockets
Jeff Bezos, the dot-com billionaire, announced that he has located the booster rockets that lifted the first moon mission into space at the bottom of the Atlantic ocean. He hopes to raise one or both to the surface.
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Climate change report: time to start preparing for the worst
It's time to start protecting people from the impact of severe-weather events, a panel says. The report offers further evidence of how the climate change conversation is shifting.
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Challenger Deep as a tourist site? Modern-day Jules Vernes say 'yes'
There's not much to see in the blackness seven miles below the surface of the Pacific Ocean. But enthusiasts can envision the day when citizen adventurers would descend to Challenger Deep and other deep-sea destinations.
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Federal crews plan to contain wildfire in Colorado
Federal fire crews today expect to take control of the 7-square-mile wildfire blaze that may have claimed two lives and destroyed 28 homes in the mountains southwest of Denver.
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Colorado wildfire may have started from controlled burn
There had been a controlled burn to prevent wildfires near the area where the 7-square-mile fire started.
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Why James Cameron was forced to surface early
James Cameron described the Mariana Trench as "very lunar, a very desolate place, very isolated.” His six hour trip was cut in half by hydraulic problems.
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James Cameron makes final preparations for historic deep-sea dive
Weather permitting Saturday, explorer and filmmaker James Cameron could take his Deepsea Challenger to the bottom of the world, a place of perpetual cold, darkness, and abiding mystery.
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