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Our galaxy's huge black hole 'feeds on asteroids', say scientists - grazing from a cloud of trillions of space rocks

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University of Leicester researchers have analysed daily flares from the supermassive black hole, thought to be caused by asteroids and comets being pulled into the Milky Way's black 'heart' and vaporised. 



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Apple's iTV is 'a gigantic iPad': Canadian telecoms companies reveal details of prototype

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Canadian telecoms company Rogers and Bell already has Apple's hotly anticipated iTV device in its labs, a report in Canada's Globe and Mail has claimed. 



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Life in Antarctic lake? It's everywhere else

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- If scientists find microbes in a frigid lake two miles beneath the thick ice of Antarctica, it will illustrate once again that somehow life finds a way to survive in the strangest and harshest places.... 



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Must-See Close Encounters of the Planet Kind Occur This Week

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The moon will shine with venus, Saturn and the bright star Spica, while Mars makes a late-night appearance.  



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Phelps using hyperbaric chamber to aid recovery

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NEW YORK (AP) -- Michael Phelps is the latest athlete to use a hyperbaric chamber to aid his recovery from training.... 



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Galactic Black Hole Eats Asteroids For Breakfast – Really

a shared story    10 hours 57 minutes ago
X-Ray flares recorded by the Chandra Observatory suggest asteroids and comets are being violently torn apart by the super-massive black hole at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy.  



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Romanian accused of hacking NASA-JPL computers

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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The Los Angeles U.S. attorney's office says a federal grand jury has indicted a Romanian citizen on charges he hacked into 25 climate-research computers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena.... 



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'We have raised 40 litres of water': Russian scientists confirm triumph at Antarctic lake isolated under miles of ice for millions of years

a shared story    14 hours 57 minutes ago
After more than two decades of drilling in Antarctica, Russian scientists have confirmed that they reached the surface of a gigantic freshwater lake hidden under miles of ice for some 20 million years. 



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Green Blog: On Our Radar: A Subglacial Lake

a shared story    16 hours 57 minutes ago
Scientists say they have drilled down through ice and reached Lake Vostok, the largest of more than 280 lakes under the thick ice that covers most of the Antarctic continent. It has been sealed from light and air for millions of years. If evidence of life...(more) 



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Russian scientists reach lake under Antarctica

a shared story    20 hours 57 minutes ago
MOSCOW (AP) -- After more than two decades of drilling in Antarctica, Russian scientists have reached the surface of a gigantic freshwater lake hidden under miles of ice for some 20 million years - a lake that may hold life from the distant past and clues...(more) 



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NASA Chief Joins President Obama at White House Science Fair

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NASA chief Charles Bolden and several other agency officials attended the White House Science Fair on Feb. 7.  




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