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With budgetary constraints delaying or canceling space missions, American physicists are taking the back seat in areas like dark energy in which they have been pioneers.
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The government will publish its long-awaited draft energy bill later, designed to encourage major investment in clean energy generation.
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Huge repositories of data collected by Internet companies are not accessible to scientists, leading some to complain that studies based on these data can’t be peer-reviewed.
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LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) -- Sea Launch AG says its oceangoing rocket pad and command ship have departed their Long Beach, Calif., home port for the equator to launch a communications satellite for Intelsat....
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- It was one of the best places in the western United States to watch the annular solar eclipse, and people drove for days just to get to this dusty stretch west of Albuquerque....
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Many eyes – human and robotic – captured photons from the May 20th 2012 annular eclipse. We've compiled videos from NASA/JAXA (Hinode), ESA, Matt Hartman, Cory Pool and Alek O. Komarnitsky to make this celestial ballet set to music by Mark Petersen.
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Europe's Proba 2 satellite passed through the moons shadow four times, producing a time-lapse study of partial solar eclipses from above Earth's atmosphere on May 20th 2012.
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From Asia to the United States, the May 20 annular solar eclipse was a sight to behold.
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The second chance for SpaceX to launch its Dragon capsule to orbit comes Tuesday.
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The program will tell you how well you compare to others, from high school students to college professors, or the speed reading record - a staggering 4,700 words a minute.
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Researchers are trying to explain the curious behaviour - and find out the mechanism for how it works - after noticing that young animals could hold back their growth until the age of 30.
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The finding comes in the wake of the founding of Planetary Resources, a venture backed by Avatar director James Cameron, which aims to mine asteroids for their wealth.
