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N.M. cavers chart unique 'snowy' river of crystals
Posted by: ap 1 month, 1 week agoFORT STANTON CAVE, N.M. (AP) _ Hundreds of feet beneath Earth's surface, a few seasoned cave explorers venture where no human has set ...
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Scientists Find Trigger for Northern Lights
Posted by: TechnologyExpert 1 month, 1 week agoScientists say they have discovered what makes the northern lights dance.
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Great Opening Sentences From Science Fiction
Posted by: Jordan 1 month, 1 week agoYou can tell a lot about a science fiction book from its first sentence. Those first few words (or few dozen, in some cases) have ...
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A Little Oil Goes a Long Way
Posted by: phipphin 1 month, 1 week agoWith all the talk about an an oil rush in the Arctic , it’ s useful to ponder the old-fashioned accident that just occurred on ...
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Last Lecture Professor Randy Pausch, 47, Dies
Posted by: YvonneOllen 1 month, 1 week agoRandy Pausch, the Carnegie Mellon computer science professor whose last lecture became an Internet sensation and bestselling book, has died of pancreatic cancer. He was ...
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Scientists recover complete dinosaur skeleton
Posted by: ap 1 month, 1 week agoTOKYO (AP) _ Japanese and Mongolian scientists have successfully recovered the complete skeleton of a 70-million-year-old young dinosaur, a nature museum announced Thursday.
The scientists ...
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Researchers say global warming could cost Ohio billions of dollars
Posted by: capn_caveman 1 month, 1 week agoOhio could lose billions of dollars in the shipping,
tourism and recreation industries in coming decades if
global warming continues unabated, researchers at the
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Math study finds girls are just as good as boys
Posted by: ap 1 month, 1 week agoWASHINGTON (AP) _ Sixteen years after Barbie dolls declared, "Math class is tough!" girls are proving that when it comes to math they are just ...
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Scientists expose mystery behind northern lights
Posted by: ap 1 month, 1 week agoCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) _ Scientists have exposed some of the mystery behind the northern lights. On Thursday, NASA released findings that indicate magnetic explosions ...
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Planet and star in puzzling waltz
Posted by: capn_caveman 1 month, 1 week agoA newly discovered planet seems to have a surprisingly powerful influence on its parent star, forcing the star to rotate at exactly the same rate ...
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Obituaries in the news
Posted by: ap 1 month, 1 week agoVictor A. McKusick
TOWSON, Md. (AP) — Dr. Victor A. McKusick, a key architect of the Human Genome Project and a winner of the National Medal ...
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A new era in search for sister Earths?
Posted by: capn_caveman 1 month, 1 week agoResearch presented at a recent astronomical conference is being hailed as ushering in a new era in the search for Earth-like planets by showing that ...
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Proposed Particle Help Explains Odd Galactic Photons
Posted by: capn_caveman 1 month, 1 week agoIn 2002, a satellite called INTEGRAL was launched by the European Space Agency with an instrument on board to detect and measure gamma rays from ...
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Texas Fiction Science
Posted by: Neophile 1 month, 1 week agoThere's nothing the evil overlords of the fictional future like more than a nice, healthy round of brainwashing. Whether it's George Orwell's ...
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The Last Lecture Professor Randy Pausch Died Today | See Video
Posted by: faida 1 month, 1 week agoRandy Pausch
Carnegie Mellon University computer science professor, Randy Pausch, died Friday due to complications from pancreatic cancer. According to the Wall Street Journal, Pausch ...Discuss (0)
