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A leading UN scientist says countries must work together to tackle the threat of asteroids colliding with the Earth.
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President-elect Barack Obama's senior White House staff is taking form with a diverse array of appointees spanning generations, geography and educational and personal backgrounds. Of the 28 top officials named to posts in the West Wing, East Wing or Vice President-elect Joe Biden's office, about...(more)
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UC Berkeley researchers analyzing fossil bones of the big beasts have found that they matured early, grew fast and were ready for sex before their teen years.
But the dinosaurs also had a heavy price to pay: After an early grow spurt, they died young, the scientists...(more)
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Australian researchers identify a significant link between a gene involved in testosterone action and male transsexualism.
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The Allied airmen and women of World War II were certainly brave and skilled in battle, but even they couldn't win the war on their own.
Plagued in the early, low-tech years of the war by dangerous afflictions such as altitude and decompression sickness, pilots got some...(more)
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Astronomers have seen the aftermath of spectacular stellar explosions known as supernovae before, but until now no one has witnessed a star dying in real time. While looking at another object in the spiral galaxy NGC 2770, using NASA’s orbiting Swift telescope, Carnegie-Princeton fellows* Alicia Soderberg...(more)
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A nearby solar system bears a striking similarity to our own solar system, raising the possibility it could harbor Earth-like planets.
Epsilon Eridani, located about 10.5 light-years from our sun, is surrounded by two asteroid belts that are shaped by planets, astronomers at SETI Institute and Harvard-Smithsonian...(more)
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Like salt used as a preservative, high concentrations of dissolved minerals in the wet, early-Mars environment known from discoveries by NASA's Opportunity rover may have thwarted any microbes from developing or surviving.
"Not all water is fit to drink," said Andrew Knoll, a member of the rover...(more)
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submitted by Gretchen Wright 9 weeks 15 hours 38 minutes ago
The latest forecast on Mars calls for morning fog and swift-moving clouds -- along with light snow.
The surprising weather report was part of the latest scientific findings from NASA's Phoenix lander, which has been taking measurements at the Martian north pole since May 25.
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NEW YORK (AP) -- More than 400 years after Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe challenged established wisdom about the heavens by analyzing a strange new light in the sky, scientists say they've finally nailed down just what he saw....
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