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NASA is attempting to deploy and operate its first solar-sail powered craft NanoSail-D, made of extremely lightweight gossamer fabric designed to glide into space. It uses sunlight to propel vehicles through space, the way the wind pushes a sailboat...
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Nokia Corp., Motorola Inc. and other handset makers rose along with the broader market Friday following Samsung Electronics’ report that its mobile phone sales...
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A Cape Cod man accused of beating a man with a baseball bat because he thought he was a Yankees fan was released from jail Friday by a judge who said the media had made...
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An audit says the government has endangered the public’s health and safety by failing to clean up abandoned mines on federal land in the West.
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Sales of new homes fell in June for the seventh time in the past eight months, but the decline was less than had been expected, raising faint hopes that the...
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China’s booming Internet population has surpassed the United States to become the world’s biggest, with 253 million people online despite government...
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Sales of new homes fell in June for the seventh time in the past eight months, but the decline was less than had been expected, raising faint hopes that the...
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The Coast Guard reopened the Mississippi River to limited ship traffic Friday, but port officials say it will take days to clear up to 200 ships idled by a massive oil...
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In a July 24 story rounding up earnings reported by three U.S. newspaper companies and the industry’s general outlook, The Associated Press misspelled the name of...
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A once-feared Haitian paramilitary leader has been convicted in a New York mortgage fraud scheme to cheat lenders out of $1.7 million.
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A CEO packs his board with cronies, uses corporate dollars toward things like a yacht and allows his company to do business with others he owns.
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Detroit Mayor Kwame (KWAH’-mee) Kilpatrick must pay $7,500 and undergo random drug testing after a judge changed terms of his bond.
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President Bush pulled the rug out from under Republicans this week when he abruptly dropped his opposition to a massive housing rescue.
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Railroad giant CSX said it has asked two nominees of activist hedge fund shareholders TCI and 3G Capital to join its board, but said it will await a vote review and...
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A detective has testified that Detroit Mayor Kwame (KWAH’-mee) Kilpatrick swore at him and threw him off a porch as he tried to deliver a subpoena to a...
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Three white teens were charged Friday in what officials said was an epithet-filled fatal beating of an illegal Mexican immigrant in a small northeast Pennsylvania coal...
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Malaysia’s leader urged the United States on Friday to respect his country’s sovereignty by not meddling in its investigation into a sodomy accusation...
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Senate Democrats failed Friday to advance a measure to rein in oil market speculators, one of a series of efforts to tell voters they are serious about addressing...
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Former Atlantic City mayor Robert Levy was given probation and a $5,000 fine for lying about his Vietnam War service to pad his benefits check.
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Railroad CSX says it has asked two nominees of activist hedge fund shareholders TCI and 3G Capital to join its board, but a vote on two others remains too close to...
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President Bush has signed an executive order expanding sanctions against individual Zimbabweans and organizations associated with the regime of Robert Mugabe, which the...
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Belief in aliens came to a new high when former NASA astronaut and moon-walker Dr. Edgar Mitchell claimed that aliens exist. The Apollo 14 mission veteran asserts that...
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FORMER NASA astronaut and moon-walker Dr Edgar Mitchell - a veteran of the Apollo 14 mission - has stunningly claimed aliens exist.
And he says extra-terrestrials have...
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The U.S. should revive and expand an aviation safety survey run by NASA to identify problems like lapses in inspections that canceled thousands of flights this past...
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GPS system has inspired researchers to develop a similar tracking and mapping system for astronauts on the Moon. Moon’s terrain and landscape pose a number of...
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THIRTY-NINE years to the day after Neil Armstrong radioed
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Money problems will likely force NASA to abandon its ambitious internal goal of having a new moon spaceship ready by 2013, a top space agency official told The...
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There’s a new contender for the title of the Milky Way’s brightest star.
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The No. 1 need right now for some of the builders of the nation’s next spaceship: Lots of No. 1.
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Signs of life on Mars may be hiding under its rocks, or perhaps hiding inside those rocks. A new study offers a simplified technique for detecting biological and...
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Though the moon has many seas, scientists thought it was dry.
They were wrong.
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NASA’s Space Shuttle will fly for one last time on May 31. After the Space Shuttle makes that final journey, Endeavour, Discovery and Atlantis retire four months...
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Ever heard about land vehicles that travel at a supersonic speed? Well, there have been vehicles, which actually do. Brits achieved a record speed of 763mph and the...
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NASA has tentatively set the final space shuttle mission for May 31, 2010, four months before the shuttle fleet retires.
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By the end of the year, the world’s greatest telescope should be able to see deeper into space and further back in time than ever. If all goes as planned, it will...
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Before we completely bid adieu to our nation’s birthday, we here at Gizmodo would like to give one more shout-out to the fourth of July. Seems like even the stars...
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Most media attention may be on Mars these days, but luckily for us (and the species as a whole) NASA is smarter than the average news network, and can actually look at...
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After spending years terrorizing and baffling people, making some look crazy to everyone, and generating immense buzz, scientists are now satisfied with their mischief...
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The Messenger space probe, which began its 5 billion mile journey to Mercury four years ago, has provided new evidence that the closest planet to the sun is contracting...
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When viewed from the rest of the galaxy, the edge of our solar system appears slightly dented as if a giant hand is pushing one edge of it inward, far-traveling NASA...
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