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Just how big can a black hole grow? Two astronomers reckon they have worked out the answer: colossal black holes with a mass of up to 50 billion suns could be lurking out there – but that’s the limit.
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Despite a 48-hour contract extension, negotiations between Boeing Co. and Machinists union officials have failed and the union declared: “The strike is...
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Justin Timberlake, Miley Cyrus and Charlize Theron were among the celebrities who appeared at the fifth annual Fashion Rocks concert celebrating the relationship...
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The Sarah Palin story, or is it a fantasy, is playing out big time in America and it has barely begun. It was good to hear two major conservative pundits, Peggy Noonan...
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So-called ‘intelligent’ computer-based methods for classifying patient samples, for example, have been evaluated with the help of two methods that have...
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Alain Jacquet, a French pop artist known for his reinterpretations of famous paintings, has died, the French Embassy said.
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AP, San Francisco
A light earthquake has rattled the San Francisco Bay area.
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AP, Pasadena
The latest images from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft show faint, partial rings orbiting with two of Saturn’s small inner moons, scientists said Friday.
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AP, Washington
Nevada regulators have shut down Silver State Bank. It was the 11th failure this year of a federally insured bank.
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AP, Washington
The government is expected to take over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac as soon as this weekend in a monumental move designed to protect the mortgage market from the failure...
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AP, Wheaton
A gunman who took a dozen hostages in a suburban Chicago bank after wresting a gun from a police officer Friday died after shooting himself in the head, police said.
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AP, Vallejo
A federal judge ruled Friday that the city of Vallejo could push forward with its bankruptcy case, rejecting a legal challenge by police and firefighters unions.
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AP, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley has begun cutting down trees at the center of a dispute over its plans to clear the area to make way for a new sports center.
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AP, Washington
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are expected to be taken over by the government as soon as this weekend in a bold move designed to protect the mortgage market from the risk...
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AP, Middletown
Unlike his Republican opponent, Democrat Barack Obama is still raising money for his presidential campaign, and he turned Friday to rock legend Jon Bon Jovi for help.
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AP, North Bergen
Authorities in New Jersey are searching a freight-train car after a woman reported that a Federal Express package containing a bomb might be aboard.
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AP, Anchorage
Gov. Sarah Palin’s church is promoting a conference that promises to convert gays into heterosexuals through the power of prayer.
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AP, Mount Vernon
“I kill for God. I listen to God,” a man accused of a northwest Washington shooting rampage said Friday at a hearing where six charges of first-degree...
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AP, Wheaton
A gunman who took a dozen hostages in a suburban Chicago bank after wresting a gun from a police officer Friday died after shooting himself in the head, police said.
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AP, Hamilton
A judge has sentenced an Ohio teenager convicted in the torture beating of a mentally disabled woman to 44 years in prison.
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AP, Pittsburgh
A federal appeals court Friday refused to dismiss fraud and theft charges against celebrity pathologist Cyril Wecht and said he can be tried again _ but ordered the...
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NASA has delayed next month’s space shuttle launch to the Hubble Space Telescope by two days.
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NASA moved shuttle Atlantis to the launch pad on Thursday for a flight next month to the Hubble Space Telescope after being waylaid by a pair of tropical storms.
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A weirdly wonderful sight appeared to astronauts aboard the International Space Station this summer — thin blue clouds hovering at the boundary between Earth’s...
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NASA’s staff will study whether the space shuttle program could continue operating past its scheduled retirement in 2010, according to an internal e-mail sent...
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If you have seen the “The First $20 Million,” you would have seen the guys trying to create a small PC for the price of $99. At the end they came out with a...
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Within the next 10 years, the U.S., China, Israel, and a host of private companies plan to set up camp on the moon. So if and when they plant a flag, does that give...
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Iran plans to send a manned rocket into space in the next 10 years, state television reported on Thursday, just days after the Islamic Republic announced it had put a...
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This article proposes an unusual way to land objects from orbit and probes returning from deep space. I won’t dwell on details best left for future study, but will...
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Exquisite close-ups of fissures on a tiny ice-ball moon of Saturn will provide the latest clues in solving how a 310-mile-wide ice ball could possibly be shooting...
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AP, Hartford
NASA says it has terminated its contract with a Houston company selected in June to supply the agency’s next-generation space suit.
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Solar flares, massive energetic explosions that rise up from the Sun, can damage man-made satellites and pose a radiation hazard to astronauts.
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AP, Los Angeles
SpaceX engineers are investigating the cause of Saturday’s failed flight of the Falcon 1, a low-cost, light-lift rocket developed by the Southern California-based...
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Ror the first time in Europe, historians, philosophers and sociologists are banding together with space scientists to share their thoughts and ideas on how humankind...
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Virgin Galactic is giving the world a glimpse of its secret space tourism program.
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AP, Los Angeles
Aerospace engineers have been holed up in a Mojave Desert hangar for four years, fashioning a commercial spaceship to loft rich tourists some 62 miles above Earth. Now...
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We’ve heard about the possibility of extraterrestrial life arriving on Earth from another planet, asteroid or comet, but the mode of transport usually includes a...
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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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On July 20, 1968 Apollo 8 landed on the moon, barely 22 years after mankind had first placed a man- made object in orbit. Unfortunately, the Moon landings were short...
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AP, Cape Canaveral
The space station’s two Russian astronauts stepped outside for the second time in less than a week Tuesday, taking a spacewalk that promised to be tame compared...
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