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California scientist names lichen after Obama
Los Angeles - A California scientist excited about the election of Barack Obama...
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La Brea Tar Pits Excavations Unearth Nearly Intact Mammoth Fossil
Approximately 10,000 years after the last glacial period ended, a nearly intact mammoth skeleton...
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Mars rovers exceed all expectations to mark fifth birthdays
Washington - When the Spirit rover landed on Mars five years ago, no one expected it or its sister...
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Mineral Suggests Mars May Have Been Hospitable
Thursday, scientists reported that an orbiting spacecraft had found a mineral on the planet...
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Ancient “British” Brain Found
British archaeologists have unveiled an ancient skull with a brain inside they consider to be the...
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NASA Will Try To Raise Phoenix from Its Icy Grave
NASA has conducted several missions on Mars
to conduct scientific experiments, and many of its...
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MSL Launch Delayed, But MPL Has A Chance for Survival
NASA announced yesterday that is has delayed its planned October 2009 launch of the Mars Science...
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NASA Ceases to Contact Phoenix Rover
NASA suspended the activity of the two probes that were
orbiting Mars in order to control the Mars...
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NASA Delays MSL And Announces Revival Attempt
NASA announced yesterday that is has delayed its planned October 2009 launch of the Mars Science...
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NASA’s Mars Rover Stays Home Till 2011
On Thursday, NASA announced that their next mission to Mars will be delayed until 2011. The mission...
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NASA’s Mars Mission Postponed To 2011
Thursday, NASA announced they would be delaying their launch of a Mars robotic mission until 2011,...
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H. Erectus Pelvis Shares New Clues On The Evolution Of Human Brain
Excavations in the region of Gona, Ethiopia, unearthed the
first and almost complete pelvic fossil...
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NASA: “Irish Wake” For Phoenix, The Mars Lander
Phoenix, the Mars Lander, is experiencing the trouble predicted by NASA back in September, when...
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Autumn Falls On Mars! The Phoenix Lander Is Dead, But Its Mission Prevails
NASA’s latest mission on the Red Planet ended after five
months of rigorous studies and amazing...
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Phoenix Mars Lander Declared Officially Dead; Mission Found Ice on Mars
Washington - After months of dust storms and severe cold, NASA's Phoenix Mars lander was declared...
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Christmas On Mars: Phoenix Witnesses Snowfall 4 Km Above Ground!
NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander has reached new milestones in
just 101 Martian days of mission, and not...
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Mars, The Red Planet, Turns White
Scientists have been receiving controversial information
from Phoenix,
the lander on Mars’ arctic...
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Update: Mars Phoenix Lander Detects Snowfall On Mars
The Phoenix Lander deployed by NASA to Mars, which has been
taking ice and soil samples for more...
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Blind Ant Sheds Light On The Beginning Of Ant Evolution
Ants have been populating Earth for millions of years, and their evolution and behavior have always...
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NASA’s Phoenix Lander Carries On With Martian Soil Analysis
The past week has been very intense for NASA scientists, as
they have been working on...
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Update: NASA Says No To Martians, Maybe To Life
There have been a lot of assumptions lately about what the
latest chemical discovery on Mars means...
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NASA Still Has A Lot Of Unanswered Questions About Mars
NASA’s mission on Mars, which is being carried out with the
help of the Phoenix Lander, reached a...
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NASA Is Unsure About Martian Soil Composition
NASA has apparently found a toxic contaminant in Martian soil, perchlorate, a highly oxidizing...
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Possible Toxic Element Found on Mars Decreases Chances of Finding Life
NASA scientists announced Monday that they discovered what seems to be a
highly oxidizing...
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New Soil Compound Diminishes The Chances For Life On Mars
The hopes of NASA’s scientists of finding life on Mars
significantly shrunk after the Phoenix Mars...
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Toxin Found In Martian Soil Diminishes Chances Of Life On Mars
The chemistry and mineralogy of soil samples gathered by
NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander over the past...
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After Finding Water On Mars, Phoenix Sniffing For Life
After finding ice in the Martian soil, the Phoenix Mars lander will try to sniff the Red Planet for...
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Phoenix Lander Finds Ice, Gets To Stay "Alive" An Additional 30 Days
The guys at NASA have decided to extend the mission of the Phoenix Lander with another 30 days,...
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Update 2: Phoenix Touches And Tastes Martian Water
NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander has positively identified water
in a soil sample taken for analysis...
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Phoenix Lander Finds Water On Mars
The Phoenix Mars mission has found water in a soil sample
after spending the last two months...
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Specials
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Pyramids to go dark for "Earth Hour"
Cairo - The Pyramids and the Sphinx, normally bathed in the golden glow of high-powered...
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Charles Darwin’s 200th Birthday Celebrated With Debates
Many churches in Oxford decided to make a conference as to celebrate the 200th birthday of Charles...
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Life on Mars Seems Possible
An orbiting spacecraft has discovered carbonate minerals on a Martian surface called the...
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NASA’s Mars Mission Delayed Until 2011
Thursday, NASA announced they would be delaying their launch of a Mars robotic mission until 2011,...
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Palin, Biden fight over change, economy, war on terror
Washington - US vice presidential candidates Sarah Palin and Joe Biden clashed over the centrality...
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Mars Lander Running on Borrowed Time, Sees Snow
The Phoenix Lander was supposed to do its mission of
analyzing Martian soil for evidence of...
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Bush dedicates Pentagon site as Americans mark 9/11
Washington/New York - US President George W Bush dedicated a memorial to the victims at the...
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Upside-down house in Germany to be "experiment for senses
Trassenheide, Germany - A businessman who put up a house in Germany upside down, with its gabled...
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Toxin Found in Martian soil
A new analysis of the Martian soil found a toxin, whose existence, if confirmed, might radically...
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Tests Confirm the Presence of Ice on Mars
A recent test has finally confirmed that water exists below the Martian soil, even though in the...
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Salmonella Peppers Come from Mexican Farms
Salmonella Peppers Come from Mexican FarmsThe FDA has announced that it has discovered a source of...
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Water Existed All Over Mars Billions of Years Ago
Researchers found out that vast quantities of water were
flowing on the Martian surface more than...
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Tomatoes Are Officially Salmonella Free
On Thursday, federal health officials finally lifted the 40
day-old warning with regard to...
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Martian Soil Could Support Life
NASA scientists felt that they won the big lottery ticket when they saw the results that came from...
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Mars Mission Moves at a Moderate Pace
On Saturday, NASA officials announced they have encountered yet another problem with their plan to...
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The Phoenix Mars Lander Is Getting Busy
NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander managed to send back to Earth the
highest-resolution images ever to be...
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First Footprint on Mars
No, the Phoenix Lander hasn’t had contact with Martian green men, and is scientifically unlikely to...
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Phoenix Sends First Images after Its Successful Landing
Phoenix, the Mars Lander whose mission is to collect information about the ice in the soil of the...
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New Lander To Reach Mars In Search of Indirect Proof Of Life
After years of hoping to find direct evidence of ice on
Mars, and after three failed missions, the...
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Health
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Radiation Exposure via Medical Scans on the Rise in the US
A new report from the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements notes that...
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$57 Million For 21-Year Human Health Study
The National Institutes of Health offers the State of Michigan $57 million to expand its task...
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Canadian Listeriosis Outbreak Triggers Lawsuits Against Maple Leaf
After more than a dozen people died from infections with Listeria, and dozens of others suffered...
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Toronto Plant Targeted in Probe of Deadly Listeriosis
There has been much hype around Salmonella and E. coli food borne infections, but, in fact, they...
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Update: Do Granite Countertops Pose Cancer Risk?
A recent report carried out by the New York Times suggests
that granite countertops from people’s...
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It’s Now Official: Tomatoes Are Salmonella Free
On Thursday, federal health officials finally lifted the 40
day-old warning with regard to...
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Tomatoes Cleared of Salmonella Outburst, Peppers Under Suspicion
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration lifted Thursday its
warning on certain kinds of raw tomatoes...
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Mexico Strongly Denies Any Involvement In The Salmonella Outbreak
The pressure of finding an explanation for the salmonella
outbreak has pushed the government to...
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Unfortunately, The Salmonella Isn't Going Anywhere
The goverment’s efforts of finding the source of the salmonella outbreak seem to be misplaced, as...
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Report: Tropical Diseases Common among US Poor
Tropical diseases usually common in Africa, Asia and Latin
American appear to be also common among...
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Germs in Soil Can Feed Solely on Potent Antibiotics
Most people think that antibiotics are deadly for bacteria, which their name implies. While this is...
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Alarming Botox Test Results
Recent studies conducted by the Italian National Research Council point out new and alarming...
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Brain-Eating Amoeba in Tucson Water Is Not a Danger
A brain-eating amoeba has been identified in Tucson’s water supply but experts assure...
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Organic Tomatoes Good For Health?
A new research conducted by the American scientists
discovered that organically grown tomatoes may...
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World
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"Al-Qaeda sleeper" pleads guilty to terrorism charge in US
Washington - Ali al-Marri, an alleged "al-Qaeda sleeper" accused...
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Sarkozy pledges to stand by Spain in fight against ETA
Madrid - French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Tuesday pledged to spare no effort in helping Spain...
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Japan prepares to intercept North Korean missile debris
Tokyo - Japan on Friday readied for North Korea's planned rocket launch, ordering...
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Pope on first visit to Africa arrives in Cameroon
Yaounde - Pope Benedict XVI arriving Tuesday in Cameroon for his first visit to Africa as pontiff,...
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Mugabe Clings To Power Through Election Calamity, Cholera
Johannesburg - Zimbabwe is short on laughs these days, so short, in fact, that the capital Harare,...
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Czechs Seek To Balance US, European Ties
Prague - Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek's big test in 2009 will be juggling the nation's...
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Indian probe points to links with Pakistan; warnings ignored
New Delhi - Investigations have shown those behind Mumbai terrorist attacks that left 188 people...
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Latvian Officials Fight Rumours About Economic Future
Riga - The Latvian government might have thought its announcement on November 20 that it was in...
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Report: US Strikes in Pakistan Kill 301 Civilians in 10 Months
Islamabad - Dozens of cross-border strikes carried out by US forces from Afghanistan into...
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US sources in Beirut: Damascus calls in diplomat over attack
Beirut - US embassy sources in Beirut said Sunday evening that a US diplomat in Damascus was called...
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Pakistan: Suspected US Missile Strike Kills 8, Injures 6 Others
Islamabad - A suspected US missile strike Thursday killed at least 8 people and wounded 6 others in...
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Global Crises Need Global Solutions, World Leaders Warn
New York - World leaders called for a revival of global institutions on Tuesday as economic crises...
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Cracks Widening in US-Pakistan Alliance against Terrorism
Islamabad - As Taliban activities rise to a disturbing level in Afghanistan, the relations between...
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US Campaign Rhetoric Shows Resurgent "Culture Wars"
San Francisco - The United States might be fighting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but back on home...
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Russia not complying with ceasefire agreement, US says
Washington - Russia has not complied with a declared ceasefire that calls for the withdrawal of...
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Rice Meets Iraqi Premier Nuri al-Maliki
Us Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met Iraqi Premier
Nuri al-Maliki on Thursday to talk about...
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Poland, US Sign Contentious Missile-Shield Deal
Warsaw (dpa) - Poland and the United States on Wednesday signed a deal to set up a missile defence...
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Russian threats against Poland "empty rhetoric," Gates says
Washington - Russian threats to target the planned US missile-defence system in Poland and the...
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Report: FBI Harassed Scientist Allegedly Involved in Anthrax Attacks
According to the account of a fellow scientist, Bruce E. Ivins, the main suspect in the case of the...
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Suicide of Scientist Linked to Anthrax Attacks Case Leaves Questions
The United States scientist who supposedly killed himself this week apparently did it because...
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Have You Mown Your Lawn Recently?
If you live in Canton,
Ohio you should seriously take a
look at your lawn to see if it is...
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Train Derails In Southern California, Homes Are Evacuated
Authorities said that homes were evacuated in the Southern
California desert town of Mecca
for a...
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Gates Wants U.S. Troops In Pakistan
The Pentagon is ready and
willing to send troops to Pakistan to join operations against al-Qaeda...
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Jose Padilla Gets 17 Years and Four Months
The judge dealing with Jose Padilla’s case rejected the Bush administration's bid for a life...
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Israel Releases Dozens of Palestinian Prisoners
Dozens of Palestinian prisoners crossed into the West Bank Monday after being released from an...
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Israeli Military Forces Enter Northern Gaza
Israeli ground forces entered Gaza on Saturday through the north and detained several suspected...
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Israeli Premier Warns Militants Will Pay Dearly for Attacks
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert warned the Palestinian militants they will pay “heavy price” for...
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Russian, Czech Officials Discuss Controversial Radar Station
The controversial missile defense shield the United States wants to set up in Europe was again a...
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Ahmadinejad Says US Missile Shield Represents a Threat
Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad lashed out once more at the United States for its plans to...
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Equipment Picks Up Sound Inside Collapsed Mine
Rescuers managed to drill a third hole into the coal mine in Utah, United States and lowered...
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