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The cosmos never ceases to amaze us with its sheer size and splendor. The star studded sky above us and the vast unexplored eternity that lay beyond us have always captured both human mind and human heart. While the glitz and shine of the stars and the...
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Alan Jackson won songwriter/artist of the year honors for his hits “A Woman’s Love” and “Small Town Southern Man” during the American...
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A former U.S. Army sergeant who has been living in Canada as a war resister has been denied refugee status there.
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Four manmade waterfalls cascaded to a close Monday, ending an ambitious public art project that inspired both admiration and complaints.
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A jury has convicted a woman of capital murder for the shooting and beating deaths of four people in suburban Houston in 2003.
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A playful polar bear pawing at a toy lost his balance and slipped into a moat at the Milwaukee County Zoo.
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Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi toasted President Bush with pieces of a podium Monday night while House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was dubbed a “prima...
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Boeing Co. and the leader of its striking machinists union say talks aimed at resolving a five-week walkout have broken down.
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Two sisters-in-law were struck by large waves on the Kauai shore and were pulled out to sea, and a snorkeler also died over the weekend as high surf hit Hawaii.
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Paul G. Rogers, who represented Floridians in Congress for 24 years, has died. He was 87.
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U.S. Rep. Jean Schmidt of Ohio suffered broken ribs and vertebrae when she was struck by a car while jogging last week, but the damage wasn’t discovered until...
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“Humanity doesn’t need a moon-base or a manned trip to Mars. We need an expedition to planet Earth, where probably fewer than 10 per cent of species are known to...
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The planet Venus passed conjunction with the sun on June 9 and is now emerging into view in the western evening sky. But it will be a long and tedious process. Even by...
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By Vincent Van Ross
We talk of the Sun; we talk of the Moon; we talk of our solar system; we talk of outer space; we talk of Unidentified Flying Objects. But, is there...
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Should we be alarmed at the current massive die-offs being noted in the animal and plant kingdoms? After all, new species arise and old species die off all the time.
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A television company has joined forces with a social networking site to send a message to the nearest theoretically inhabitable planet. But can our television and radio...
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The common mantra that there is nothing special about our place in the universe is questioned today by a simulation of the birth of our Solar System.
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Pluto is finally getting its day in the sun, after being stripped of planetary status by astronomers two years ago.
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Japan’s Maruyama Shigenori, one of the world’s leading geophysicists, is working on a global formula for a vast new field of study that would include dozens...
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Chirps and whistles of our planet\’s auroral kilometric radiation (AKR) might be the first thing an extraterrestrial civilization is likely to hear from Earth. In...
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There\’s a global computing effort dedicated to moving vast volumes of data around the world. You already knew that, but this one isn\’t being used to...
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Researchers said they discovered a batch of three “super-Earths” orbiting a nearby star, and two other solar systems with small planets as well.
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NASA’s Mars Phoenix lander touched down in the far north of the Red Planet yesterday and has started sending first pictures of the unexplored region. This flight...
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Mars and Venus, those seemingly contrasting planets of self-help book fame, have more in common than you might think. Two nearly identical spacecraft around Mars and...
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Those having trouble remembering the newly assigned 11 planets, including three dwarfs, can thank a fourth-grader.Maryn Smith, the winner of the National Geographic...
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A fourth-grader at Riverview Elementary School has won the National Geographic planetary mnemonic contest, developing a handy way to remember the newly assigned 11...
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A fourth-grader at Riverview Elementary School has won the National Geographic planetary mnemonic contest, developing a handy way to remember the newly assigned 11...
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In a solar system thousands of light years away, a star about half the size of our sun is being orbited by two planets that seem like smaller versions of Jupiter and...
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Mercury has been a complex puzzle for the researchers. The closest planet from the sun has always been the center of mystery. The researchers in the United States have...
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