Passenger jets are hit by lightning every 1,000 hours -- on average twice a year -- and experts say the risk from the bolts of electricity is growing.
Other
Jun 2, 2009
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It was spring in what was then the Soviet Union when a mathematician in Moscow with a penchant for puzzles created a "Tetris" computer game still going strong 25 years later.
Software
Jun 2, 2009
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(AP) -- A commercial fossil hunter, whose discovery of the world's best-preserved dinosaur brought scientific acclaim, will serve 60 days in jail for stealing raptor bones from private land.
Archaeology
Jun 2, 2009
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(AP) -- Bits of pottery discovered in a cave in southern China may be evidence of the earliest development of ceramics by ancient people.
Archaeology
Jun 2, 2009
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(AP) -- Scientists looking for lost penguins stumbled upon an effective method: Follow their poop from space.
Ecology
Jun 2, 2009
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