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China's growing military might: top 4 concerns for the Pentagon
In a report issued this week, the Department of Defense for the first time directly accused China’s military of using cyberattacks to spy on US networks. In this arena and others, “China’s military buildup shows no signs of slowing,” said David Helvey, deputy assistant secretary of Defense for East Asia, who presented the report.Here are Pentagon officials’ top four concerns as they carefully monitor the growth of China’s military.
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Mother's Day 2013: 10 best books
Mother's Day 2013: 10 best new books for all kinds of moms
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The 25 best country songs of all time (+video)
Check out Country Music Television's rankings of the best country music songs ever released.
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Top 10 places to buy a foreclosed home
Here are the Top 10 metropolitan areas to buy a foreclosed home, according to RealtyTrac:
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How dangerous are near-Earth asteroids? 5 key questions answered.
On Feb. 15, asteroid 2012 DA14, discovered a year ago, cleared Earth by a scant 17,200 miles. The same day, a smaller, unrelated asteroid that no one saw coming exploded 12 to 15 miles above Russia’s Chelyabinsk region. Events that day highlight the risk that near-Earth objects (NEOs) can pose – although to some extent, humans can counter them.
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Felix Baumgartner breaks the sound barrier. Sponsored by Red Bull. (+video)
Felix Baumgartner broke the sound barrier and the record for highest skydive Sunday when he leapt into the stratosphere from a balloon near the edge of space. Felix Baumgartner has made a career of risky jumps, including skydiving across the English Channel and parachuting off the Petronas Towers.
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Supersonic daredevil skydiver touches down safely
On Sunday, Felix Baumgartner skydived 24 miles, jumping from a pressurized capsule, and landed safely on Earth. It was not immediately certain if he had broken the speed of sound.
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Shuttle X-ing: Endeavour spacecraft slowly winds through L.A.
In retirement, it's crawling along the streets of Los Angeles at a sluggish 2 mph, a pace that rush-hour commuters can sympathize with.
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Space shuttle Endeavour: A final 2 m.p.h. mission through Los Angeles
The space shuttle Endeavour began its 2-mph crawl through streets of Los Angeles at about 2 a.m. Friday. A retired laser scientist uses Endeavour's terrestrial crawl as a teaching moment for Los Angeles school children.
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NASA rover Curiosity finds a rock not seen before on Mars (+video)
Using a laser and X-rays, the NASA rover Curiosity identified a rock named Jake as a form of basalt, similar to volcanic rocks found in ocean-island settings on Earth.
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Martian black glass meteorite may reveal Red Planet's secrets
Within a Tissint meteorite, scientists found an abundance of black glass that they say may contain traces of Mars' surface, atmosphere and interior.
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Dragon capsule reaches space station, chocolate ripple ice cream intact
SpaceX's Dragon capsule delivered cargo including a little ice cream to the International Space Station Wednesday, confirming that a new era for NASA has finally been realized.
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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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Did Mars rover photograph a broken piece of itself?
Curiosity scooped its first Mars sample using its robotic arm Sunday (Oct. 7) and used onboard cameras to snap photos of the event.
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Private rocket glitch: SpaceX launch anomaly won't scrap mission
The Falcon 9 is designed to withstand such an engine loss and still complete its mission, SpaceX officials said.
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SpaceX set to launch with cargo for International Space Station
The first commercial resupply mission to the International Space Station is set to lift off from the Kennedy Space Center Sunday evening. From the space station crew's standpoint, some of the most precious cargo could well be ice cream.
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Why Mars rover will shake and shimmy for eight straight hours
The Mars Curiosity rover will scoop up Martian sand, then shake 'at a nice tooth-rattling vibration level' for eight hours to purge the rover's testing system of Earth contaminants.
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Why a clean Mars rover is a happy Mars rover (+video)
The Mars rover Curiosity is putting its dramatic explorations on hold, for tests and essential cleaning: After all, if it's going to accurately analyze Martian soil, it must shed its Earthly residue.
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Change Agent Ex-NASA engineer designs an app to chart water quality
John Feighery created mWater – a cell phone app that instantly records and maps the results of water-quality tests, making monitoring of water quality in developing countries quicker and easier.
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On Sputnik anniversary, World Space Week launches
The 13th annual World Space Week runs from Oct. 4 through Oct. 10 — both key dates in the history of space exploration.
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International space station veers to avoid space junk
The ISS will move to a new orbit Thursday to avoid a possible collision with a fragment of debris. Over 21,000 pieces of space junk larger than a softball are estimated to be circling the planet.
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Mars rover finds surprisingly pleasant weather during day, deadly cold at night
Temperatures have climbed above freezing during more than half of the Martian days, or sols, since REMS was turned on, scientists said.
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'Fearless' Redbull-sponsored daredevil to plunge to Earth from edge of space (+video)
Next Monday over New Mexico, he will attempt the highest, fastest free fall in history and try to become the first skydiver to break the sound barrier.
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Space boat could voyage on Saturn moon Titan's lakes
Titan, the largest of the more than 60 natural satellites of Saturn, is covered in seas, lakes and rivers of methane, and hosts a thick atmosphere, making it one of the most Earth-like bodies in the solar system.
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India launches 101st space mission, and looks to Mars
The mission will be carried out without international help, highlighting the growth and ambition of India's home-grown space program, which plans to launch a mission to Mars.
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Ancient streambed latest clue in Mars water mystery
The discovery suggests that water had flowed fast and relatively deep — perhaps hip-deep, in fact — through the area billions of years ago.
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What's on Mars? Evidence of water (+video)
On Thursday, NASA's Mars Curiosity rover identified what are believed to be rocks moved by water that once flowed on the Red Planet. Curiosity's further exploration is hoped to determine whether Mars was once inhabited by microorganisms.
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Mars Curiosity rover discovers ancient streambed on planet's surface (+video)
This water flow was likely quite vigorous, perhaps akin to the flows produced by flash floods in desert areas here on Earth, researchers announced.
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Mars Curiosity rover snaps crescent moon Phobos in pale, Martian sky
The Curiosity rover's latest Mars photo captured the planet's largest Martian moon, Phobos, during a Martian evening, revealing the satellite as a faint crescent moon.
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How can humans touch Mars? Bring back a soil sample
A new report from NASA suggests that the agency prioritize bringing samples back from Mars to Earth for study. NASA will not make a specific plan for how they'll achieve this goal until after the president releases his 2014 budget in February.
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