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Oleg Batishchev, a research scientist at MIT’s department of aeronautics and astronautics, has developed the Mini-Helicon Plasma Thruster, a compact, economical rocket for use on spacecraft.
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The White House released a picture today of Michaele Salahi shaking hands with the president despite earlier reports that the couple who allegedly crashed the state...
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After President Obama raised tariffs on Chinese tires - in a pander to the unions - after not long ago warning against protectionism, a senior White House trade...
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The Idiots. Okay, okay, I know I am picking on Washington lately, but trust me it deserves it. But this time the reason for my psychotic anger is not anything native,...
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A website has published what it says are 573,000 intercepted pager messages sent during the 9/11 attacks in the United States.
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My calendar year runs from one Thanksgiving to another.
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Reflections of endurance, time links to the past. The value of quality: workmanship versus modern technology.
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Cool collection of photos of the sky. Alan Dyer explores the sky from rural Alberta, Canada.
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In this photo released Monday, Feb. 9, 2009 by Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities, a newly-discovered Egyptian mummy in a sarcophagus is seen in a tomb at Saqqara, south of Cairo, in Egypt, Sunday, Feb. 8, 2009. Egyptian archaeologists say they have..
