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NASA sting leads to woman allegedly trying to sell moon rock
A woman claiming to sell a moon rock was questioned in Lake Elsinore in Riverside County on Thursday morning as part of an undercover sting by NASA investigators aided by local police.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 25, 2011 |
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JFK's 1961 speech led space exploration to new heights
Fifty years ago, on May 25, 1961, President John F. Kennedy told a joint session of Congress that "this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 25, 2011 |
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Study debunks theory on end of 'Snowball Earth' ice age
A team of scientists led by researchers from Caltech report in this week's issue of the journal Nature that the rocks on which much of a theory on how the "Snowball Earth" ice age ended was based were formed ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 25, 2011 |
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Young graphite, old rocks: looking for evidence of earliest life
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have long debated about the origin of carbon in Earth’s oldest sedimentary rocks and how it might signal the remnants of the earliest forms of life on the planet. New research ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 17, 2011 |
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Chemistry curbs spreading of carbon dioxide
(PhysOrg.com) -- The presence of even a simple chemical reaction can delay or prevent the spreading of stored carbon dioxide in underground aquifers, new research from the University of Cambridge has revealed.
May 06, 2011 |
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Climbers leave rare plants' genetic variation on the rocks
Rock climbers are having a negative impact on rare cliff-dwelling plants, ecologists have found. Writing in the British Ecological Society's Journal of Applied Ecology they say that in areas popular with climbers, conser ...
May 04, 2011 |
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Spacecraft Earth to perform asteroid 'flyby' this fall
(PhysOrg.com) -- Since the dawn of the space age, humanity has sent 16 robotic emissaries to fly by some of the solar system's most intriguing and nomadic occupants -- comets and asteroids. The data and imagery ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 03, 2011 |
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Seeking life's imprint in shifting desert sand
A group of scientists are hunched over, their eyes intently scanning the jumble of rocks on the ground. Every now and then, someone picks one up for closer inspection, turning it over and over again in their ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 02, 2011 |
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Huge sperm whale washes up on Sydney beach
A dead 10-metre (32-feet) sperm whale has washed up on a Sydney beach, with rescuers struggling Thursday to remove it as the animal's blood runs into the water, attracting sharks.
Apr 28, 2011 |
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Fast-rotating asteroid winks for astronomer's camera
(PhysOrg.com) -- Video imaging of newly discovered asteroid 2011 GP59 shows the object appearing to blink on and off about once every four minutes.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 15, 2011 |
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Eyes of rock let chitons see predators
Using eyes made of a calcium carbonate crystal, a simple mollusk may have evolved enough vision to spot potential predators, scientists say.
Apr 14, 2011 |
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Electric Yellowstone: Conductivity image hints volcano plume is bigger than thought
University of Utah geophysicists made the first large-scale picture of the electrical conductivity of the gigantic underground plume of hot and partly molten rock that feeds the Yellowstone supervolcano. The ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 11, 2011 |
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Utah rock art provides glimpse of Hawaiian life
Halfway up Salt Mountain in Utah, petroglyphs on a limestone rock bear witness to an obscure twist of history: a Hawaiian Mormon settlement that flourished briefly more than a century ago.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Apr 05, 2011 |
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32,000 years of special effects
(PhysOrg.com) -- Werner Herzog’s new film, Cave of Forgotten Dreams, tells the story of the ancient creation and modern discovery of the stunning rock-art of the Chauvet cave in the Ardèche Valley, south-east France ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Apr 05, 2011 |
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NASA probe aims to unlock Mercury's secrets (Update)
NASA scientists pored Wednesday over stunning new images of Mercury as their MESSENGER probe began a year-long mission to map the surface of the solar system's least-understood planet.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 30, 2011 |
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