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When your home is an aluminum spacecraft in Earth orbit – hundreds of miles from the nearest fire station – saturating a potential fire early and fast can be a lifesaver.
What if the International Space Station (ISS) catches fire, surely the...
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Global warming will be high on the list of priorities at the G8 summit in Japan and holding it next to Hokkaido’s natural reserves, organizers want to show the beauty...
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Astronomers have discovered that earth emots shrieking and chirps like sounds, that could be heard by any body trying to listen including the aliens.
These radio waves,...
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Earth sits between two worlds that have been devastated by past climate catastrophes. In the effort to combat global warming, our neighbors- Mars and Venus (image)-...
made popular Jun 30 2008
AP, Los Angeles
The Phoenix lander’s first taste test of soil near Mars’ north pole reveals a briny environment similar to what can be found in backyards on Earth,...
made popular Jun 26 2008
AP, Washington
Scientists unearthed a skull of the most primitive four-legged creature in Earth’s history, which should help them better understand the evolution of fish to...
made popular Jun 25 2008
AP, Miami
Gov. Charlie Crist on Wednesday evoked President Kennedy’s challenge to land on the moon and called for the same dedication and innovation to finding ways to save...
made popular Jun 25 2008
Planet hunters say it’s just a matter of time before they lasso Earth’s twin, which almost surely is hiding somewhere in our star-studded galaxy.
made popular Jun 25 2008
AP, Los Angeles
Bizarre microbes flourish in the most punishing environments on Earth from the bone-dry Atacama Desert in Chile to the boiling hot springs of Yellowstone National Park...
made popular Jun 22 2008
A team of scientists led by University of Wisconsin-Madison geologists Takayuki Ushikubo, Valley and Noriko Kita have completed an analysis of ancient minerals called...
made popular Jun 20 2008
AP, Los Angeles
The Phoenix lander stopped digging soil near Mars’ north pole Wednesday as engineers on Earth worked to fix a glitch that caused the loss of a day’s worth...
made popular Jun 19 2008
A little over a year and some two hundred exo-planet discoveries ago, astronomers at the European Southern Observatory in Chile announced that they had found what might...
made popular Jun 18 2008
Researchers said they discovered a batch of three “super-Earths” orbiting a nearby star, and two other solar systems with small planets as well.
They said...
made popular Jun 18 2008
A book about global warming has won this year’s Royal Society prize for popular science writing.
Mark Lynas’ Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet has...
made popular Jun 18 2008
European researchers said on Monday they discovered a batch of three “super-Earths” orbiting a nearby star, and two other solar systems with small planets...
made popular Jun 16 2008
AP, Cape Canaveral
Space shuttle Discovery and its crew of seven returned to Earth on Saturday and capped a successful expansion job at the international space station, more spacious and...
made popular Jun 14 2008
AP, Cape Canaveral
The space shuttle Discovery and its crew of seven returned to Earth on Saturday and capped a successful expansion job at the international space station, more spacious...
made popular Jun 14 2008
AP, Cape Canaveral
Shuttle Discovery and its crew of seven streaked toward Earth on Saturday to cap a successful expansion job at the international space station, more spacious and robust...
made popular Jun 14 2008
AP, Cape Canaveral
Space shuttle Discovery and its crew of seven are heading back to Earth after their mission at the international space station.
made popular Jun 14 2008
An alarming acceleration in the melting of glaciers around the world.
The swift retreat of these great ice streams is helping to raise ocean levels and is threatening...
made popular Jun 12 2008
Although periods of inactivity are normal for the sun, this current period has gone on much longer than usual and scientists are starting to worry—at least a little...
made popular Jun 11 2008
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