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Mars Technology Helps Create Inauguration Mega-picture

When a new president is inaugurated, it's a big event, and it calls for a big picture. To be precise, 1,474 megapixels.

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

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UN talks take first steps on 2015 climate deal

UN members on Thursday took their first steps in a marathon to negotiate a new global pact by 2015 that for the first time will place rich and poor under a common legal regime to tackle climate change.

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 17, 2012 | popularity 2 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Biodiversity could be casualty of Myanmar openness

(AP) -- As many as 40,000 gorgeously plumed birds known as the Gurney's pitta thrive in the lowland rainforests of economically backward Myanmar. Across the border, Thailand's last five pairs are guarded around ...

Biology / Ecology

created May 07, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array: Famous radio telescope officially gets new name

Astronomers and officials from around the globe gathered on the high desert of New Mexico Saturday to officially bestow a new name on the world's most famous radio telescope and to mark its transformation ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 03, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

German IT sector in bullish mood at world's top tech fair

The German IT sector headed into the world's biggest high-tech fair in bullish mood, seeing record sales in 2012 ahead of the event's inauguration Monday by the leaders of Germany and Brazil.

Technology / Business

created Mar 05, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Record $736k paid for single tuna fish in Japan

A deep-pocketed restaurateur shelled out nearly three-quarters of a million dollars for a single tuna, the most ever paid for the fish, at Japan's Tsukiji fish market on Thursday.

Biology / Other

created Jan 05, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Divergent views signal tough climate talks ahead (Update)

(AP) -- With heat-trapping carbon at record levels in the atmosphere, U.N. climate negotiations opened Monday with pressure building to salvage the only treaty limiting greenhouse gas emissions.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 28, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 6

Three new elements named, including one for Copernicus

The General Assembly of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP), taking place at the Institute of Physics in London, today approved the names of three new elements.

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 04, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (16) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

A chronology of China's space programme

China on Tuesday launched an unmanned spacecraft to carry out a key docking mission, taking its next step towards the goal of building its first space station by 2020.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 01, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Poll: Americans believe U.S. headed in wrong direction on energy

A poll released today by The University of Texas at Austin found less than 14 percent of Americans think the country is headed in the right direction on energy. Of more than 3,400 consumers surveyed, 84 percent were worried ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Oct 20, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 5

Great speeches: How to know one if we hear one

With the season for political oratory hard upon us, how does the rhetoric of this year's crop of presidential contenders measure up?

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Oct 12, 2011 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 4


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