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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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Forbes Magazine named drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman — a fugitive reputed to be hiding in the mountains of northern Mexico — to its list of the 67...
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President Obama said yesterday he is still several weeks away from adopting a new strategy for the war in Afghanistan.
What’s taking so long? Obama wants his...
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The White House is on a collision course with Catholic bishops in an intractable dispute over abortion that could blow up the fragile political coalition behind...
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President Obama’s diplomatic outreach to Iran deserves some award for its schizophrenic nature. Obama claims he wants to reach out his hand to an uncleanched...
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The question was a plausible one Monday when it was announced that the Pontiac Silverdome — once home to the NFL’s Detroit Lions — was sold for $583,000, or about...
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The Texas Department of Public Safety is warning parents across the state to be aware of efforts by Mexican cartels and transnational gangs to recruit Texas youth in...
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President Obama has admitted for the first time that the deadline he set two days into his Administration for closing the Guantanamo Bay detainee camp in Cuba will be...
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Christmas seems to start earlier and earlier every year, and with it comes the idiotic fringe-media meme that’s come to be known as the “War On...
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Israel: Busy Ethnic Cleansing Muslims and Christians from Holy Jerusalem
Here’s the list that Obama administration calls a success in the Middle East
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Another hateful asshole at Fox
Here’s a recent exchange between Fox News host Shepard Smith and Texas Republican Senator (and Gubernatorial candidate) Kay Bailey...
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The horrific things some people do to their children is beyond belief. Parents who offer their kids up as suicide bombers, a spouse who kills their own child, or the...
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The Alaska hockey-mom and conservative starlet Sarah Palin is making a comeback. Previously resigned to publishing her political opinions via the reputable Washington...
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Since time immemorial birth control has been a preserve for women, and for decades birth control pills have been a women only affair but as it seems even men could also...
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Humanity needs a jolt to come out of the box we have locked ourselves in for generations. The rot has become so severe that mere paradigm shift is not enough to rescue...
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I am to be specific: Then and Now.
Any comments? Thank you in advance for sharing an American history in making.
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Investigators in the city raided offices for some of the nation’s largest newspapers Tuesday as part of a corruption probe into a powerful union that has long...
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After turning down Vogue during the presidential campaign for “fear of looking too feminine,” Hillary Clinton has finally granted Vogue the interview they...
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I bet a predominant majority of Insta-bloggers associates 1969 with something alike the Jurassic Park epoch which is a normal feeling for all us comprehending events...
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As understood from the latest Nature publication on Wednesday, 25March 2009, Russian-Italian science team of PAMELA (Payload for Antimatter Matter Exploration and...
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God the root cause of all confusion
Before you curse me under the breath please hold your horses
I am not saying that I am a non believer
I do believe that there is...
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Do you know what is the most important photo taken by mankind? If not, it is an image acquired by the Hubble Telescope in September 2003, which for 11 days was pointed...
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Astronomers have detected the most distant gamma-ray burst ever found. The cosmic explosion came from a star that detonated about 12.8 billion light years from...
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Experts around the world are eagerly awaiting the switch on of the world’s biggest scientific experiment, and none more so than Professor Stephen Hawking.The...
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As far as cosmic questions go, it’s as good a one as any: When will our great universe cease to be, and shuffle our great^10^75-grandchildren off the mortal coil?...
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Astronomers use instruments called spectrographs to spread the light from celestial objects into its component colours, or frequencies, in the same way water droplets...
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Striking evidence has been found for the enigmatic “stuff” called dark matter which makes up 23% of the Universe, yet is invisible to our eyes.
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A vast physics experiment - the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) - reaches a key milestone this weekend ahead of an official start-up on 10 September.
The most powerful...
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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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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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The unusual properties of frozen water may have been the ticket that made life possible.
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Kristina Koc-Godliyb competes in the evening gown competition during the Miss Universe of Ukraine at the Freedom casino in Kiev, Ukraine, late Friday Feb. 20, 2009. She was later crowned Miss Universe of Ukraine 2009.
