Twin NASA spacecraft that achieved orbit around the moon New Year’s Eve and New Year’s…
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Voyager instrument cooling after heater turned off
In order to reduce power consumption, mission managers have turned off a heater on part…
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Revisiting the ‘Pillars of Creation’
In 1995, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope took an iconic image of the Eagle nebula, dubbed…
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No Wikipedia? What if the Internet went down? (AP)
AP – If a day without Wikipedia was a bother, think bigger. In this plugged-in…
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No Wikipedia? What if the Internet went down?
If a day without Wikipedia was a bother, think bigger. In this plugged-in world, we…
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No Wikipedia? What if the Internet went down?
If a day without Wikipedia was a bother, think bigger. In this plugged-in world, we…
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Did the oldest tree east of the Mississippi spontaneously combust? (Yahoo! News)
Yahoo! News – “The Big Tree,” the oldest tree east of the Mississippi, was reduced…
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Impact of land use activity in the Amazon basin evaluated
Portions of the Amazon basin are experiencing a transition in energy and water cycles. Evidence…
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Unusual ‘tulip’ creature discovered
A bizarre creature that lived in the ocean more than 500 million years ago has…
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Computer simulations revealing how methane and hydrogen pack into gas hydrates could enlighten alternative fuel production and carbon dioxide storage
For some time, researchers have explored flammable ice for low-carbon or alternative fuel or as…