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New 'Super-Earth': A Potentially Habitable Planet? |
In an improbable spot, scientists say they've discovered a world like our own where water and biology might exist
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| 02/03/2012 04:00 AM |
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Sharpest telescope ever |
A new system provides all the clarity of stargazing from space and none of the challenges
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| 02/03/2012 04:00 AM |
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U.S.-China Solar War: Tariffs on Imports Spark Debate |
Tariffs on Chinese imports is a feel-good solution that could do a lot of harm
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| 02/03/2012 04:00 AM |
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Happy Birthday, Opportunity! Mars Rover Turns 8 |
Since 2004, the interplanetary car has been trundling across the Martian surface
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| 02/03/2012 04:00 AM |
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Climate Change: Why It's Time to Focus on Farming |
The fact that the climate is already changing, and will continue to change, means we need to start adapting agriculture to a warmer world immediately
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| 02/03/2012 04:00 AM |
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The 'Choking Game': 1 in 7 College Kids Has Tried It |
The potentially lethal Choking Game, which involves cutting off the blood supply to the brain, appears to be popular with some college students who think it's not as dangerous as using illicit drugs
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| 02/03/2012 04:00 AM |
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New Mexico Is Stretching, Slowly but Surely |
The driving distance between Phoenix and Dallas is getting farther. It's a minuscule difference -- not even a millimeter a year -- but it's a tangible phenomenon, and you can blame on the middleman: New Mexico
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| 02/03/2012 04:00 AM |
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The Milky Way's Babies: Why Can't We See More of Them? |
Our galaxy ought to have a lot more company -- so where is it?
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| 02/03/2012 04:00 AM |
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Gravitational Lensing: The Optical Illusion That Explains the Cosmos |
You may never have heard of gravitational lensing, but it's redrawing the very map of space
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| 02/03/2012 04:00 AM |
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NASA's Lunar Orbiter Finds the Moon's Wetter Regions |
The darkest, least habitable spots on the lunar surface turn out to be the wettest too
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| 02/03/2012 04:00 AM |
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Astronomers Are Hunting for Exomoons with Kepler's Help |
If distant stars have their own worlds, why shouldn't distant worlds have their own moons?
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| 02/03/2012 04:00 AM |
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Russia Accuses U.S. of Secret Mars Plot After Probe Bust |
The failure of a Russian space probe leads to charges of sabotage
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| 02/03/2012 04:00 AM |
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Brain Science, Moral Disgust: Why We Loathe John Edwards |
As John Edwards petitions for yet another postponement of his campaign-finance trial, a look at why the human brain recoils at the former pretty boy of politics
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| 02/03/2012 04:00 AM |
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The Year That Winter Forgot: Is It Climate Change? |
What unusually mild temperatures do -- and don't -- tell us about climate change
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| 02/03/2012 04:00 AM |
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An Oily Case: Chevron's Never-Ending, Record-Breaking Lawsuit in Ecuador |
How long has the legal battle between indigenous groups in the Ecuadorean Amazon and the oil giant Chevron been going on?
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| 02/03/2012 04:00 AM |
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China's Going to the Moon -- and That's Good for Everyone |
Until the U.S. gets its Apollo-era mojo back, it could do worse than rooting for China to go the places the U.S. won't
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| 02/03/2012 04:00 AM |
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Why Wild Animals and Hollywood Don't Mix |
Nonhuman actors have always been featured in movies; they shouldn't be
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| 02/03/2012 04:00 AM |
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Dry-Roasted Planets: A Sunlike Star Tried to Eat Its Young |
In the KOI 55 system, the Kepler probe finds evidence that two dry-roasted planets survived the fiery death throes of their parent sun
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| 02/03/2012 04:00 AM |
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GRAIL Mission Spacecraft Arrive at Moon to Study It |
These satellites probing deep beneath the moon's surface will analyze its interior structure in unprecedented detail
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| 02/03/2012 04:00 AM |
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Scientists Find That Pigeons Are Capable of Simple Math |
It's not just humans and other primates that can master simple math; the most ordinary of birds can too
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| 02/03/2012 04:00 AM |
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Is Fear of Divorce Keeping People from Getting Married? |
A new study suggests that young cohabiting couples are refraining from marriage out of fear of divorce
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| 02/03/2012 04:00 AM |
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Got Money? Then You Might Lack Compassion |
Are the rich really the unfeeling boors they're made out to be? Studies suggest that the richer people are, the less compassion they show
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| 02/03/2012 04:00 AM |
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Two Earth-Size Planets Found Orbiting a Distant Star |
Using the powerful Kepler space telescope, a team of astronomers has found two rocky worlds similar in size to our own, orbiting a star known as Kepler-20, some 950 light-years away
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| 02/03/2012 04:00 AM |
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Environmentalism: Can Conservationists Trump Developers? |
A pristine planet is never coming back, but that doesn't mean it can't become O.K.
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| 02/03/2012 04:00 AM |
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The Science of Fish Democracy: Minority Influence |
Political parties are not so different from schooling fish -- and that can be a good thing
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| 02/03/2012 04:00 AM |
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Newt Gingrich's Unusual Ideas About Space and Science |
Moon mining! Space mirrors! The GOP front runner is full of ideas
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| 02/03/2012 04:00 AM |
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Physicists Seek Higgs Boson 'God Particle' to Explain Mass |
Physicists close in on an explanation for why the universe has any mass at all
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| 02/03/2012 04:00 AM |
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Study: Indoor Tanning Linked With Early Onset of Skin Cancer |
Given that indoor tanning beds were officially classified as a human carcinogen in 2009 -- up there with cigarettes and asbestos -- it should be fairly obvious that frequent tanning-booth exposure would increase your risk of skin cancer
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| 02/03/2012 04:00 AM |
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For U.S. Renewable Energy, 2012 Will Be a Bad Year |
Expiration of federal subsidies could cripple a growing industry
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| 02/03/2012 04:00 AM |
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NASA's Mars Rover Finds Mineral Traces Left by Water |
A new discovery in a Martian crater yields clues to the planet's watery past
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| 02/03/2012 04:00 AM |
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U.N. Global-Warming Talks: Good for Diplomats, Indifferent for the Climate |
There are deals and then there are deals. That's my takeaway from the U.N. climate negotiations in the South African city of Durban, which finally concluded early Sunday local time
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| 02/03/2012 04:00 AM |
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Scientists Find a Pair of Supermassive Black Holes |
The discovery of two new black holes, each about 330 million light-years away or so, was just announced in the journal Nature. The smaller of the two is nearly 30% bigger than anything we've ever seen before
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| 02/03/2012 04:00 AM |
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New Earth Found? |
The Kepler Space telescope finds a world that looks tantalizingly like our own
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| 02/03/2012 04:00 AM |
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A Key Trick to Bed Bugs' Persistence: Inbreeding |
If bed bugs seem to be everywhere, it's probably because they are
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| 02/03/2012 04:00 AM |
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Five Truths About Our Energy Future |
It's not easy to see what's around the energy bend, but here are hard -- if unexpected -- realities
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| 02/03/2012 04:00 AM |
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Would You Kill One Person to Save Five? New Research on a Classic Debate |
Imagine you are a train-yard operator who sees an out-of-control boxcar running down a track that five workers are busy repairing
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| 02/03/2012 04:00 AM |
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NASA's Growing Space Fleet Explores the Solar System |
A swarm of American ships is venturing deep into the solar system, studying Mercury, the moon, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Pluto up close
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