Egyptians armed with low-tech electronic gadgets like dial-up modems, landlines and old-school satellite phones are finding ways to get their…
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10-Year Comprehensive Survey Reveals Ocean’s Mysteries … Some of Them
At last, the diversity of ocean life has been exhaustively (and expensively) cataloged — or has it? The results of…
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How thoroughly did Penn State University investigate a top climate scientist who brought hundreds of thousands of dollars in grants…
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Blood From a Stone? No. Blood From Rice? Sure
Dracula may have a square meal at last. Researchers in China believe they have found a way to produce and…
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The Race to the Red Planet
A 50-million-mile target has been set, a straight spaceshot with a clear (though distant) goal. But who will make the…
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Richard Branson is on a mission to Mars. The Virgin Airlines CEO says he has a plan to populate the…
Read MoreStrap in! What it’s like to fly on SpaceShipTwo
While SpaceShipTwo builder Scaled Composites prepares the commercial spaceship for its first rocket-powered test flight, owner Virgin Galactic has been…
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Massive Antarctic iceberg sets sail
After lingering in its birthing bay for nearly six months, an Antarctic iceberg the size of Singapore is finally heading…
Read MoreJFK’s ‘Moon Speech’ Still Resonates 50 Years Later
Fifty years ago today (Sept. 12), President John F. Kennedy whipped up support for NASA’s fledgling Apollo program in a…
Read MoreWhat’s the smallest thing in the universe?
Just how small is the universe’s smallest stuff anyway? People once thought grains of sand were the building blocks of…
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