Cypriot officials are baffled by reports that a meteor streaking across the nighttime sky may have exploded overhead with a thunderous bang that some said made the ground shake.
Space Exploration
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Earth requires fuel to drive plate tectonics, volcanoes and its magnetic field. Like a hybrid car, Earth taps two sources of energy to run its engine: primordial energy from assembling the planet and nuclear energy from the ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 9, 2016
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MIT researchers and their colleagues are designing an imaging system that can read closed books.
Optics & Photonics
Sep 9, 2016
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The internet may be a great source of empowerment for the disenfranchised - if they're allowed to have it. A new study that examined the internet access of excluded ethnic groups within countries found that groups subjected ...
Internet
Sep 9, 2016
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As late as Saturday evening, meteorologists were warning that tropical storm Hermine could wreak havoc along the Jersey shore. Yet the promised storm stayed far offshore Sunday, kicking up little more on land than some wind ...
Environment
Sep 9, 2016
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A team at Google parent Alphabet working on unmanned aerial systems this month will try out delivering burritos by drone on a college campus in Virginia.
Other
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U.S. aviation safety officials took the extraordinary step late Thursday of warning airline passengers not to turn on or charge a new-model Samsung smartphone during flights following numerous reports of the devices catching ...
Consumer & Gadgets
Sep 9, 2016
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The US space agency launched its first mission to collect dust from an asteroid, the kind of cosmic body that may have delivered life-giving materials to Earth billions of years ago.
Space Exploration
Sep 9, 2016
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Health officials are trying to figure out what caused dozens of birds to fall out of the sky onto a Boston neighborhood.
Plants & Animals
Sep 9, 2016
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Hawaii officials proposed a series of steps to fight coral bleaching that's threatening the state's reefs, including new marine protected areas, limits on fishing and controlling polluted runoff from land.
Environment
Sep 9, 2016
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