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Astronauts salute Discovery on eve of last landing
On the eve of Discovery's final homecoming, the six shuttle astronauts paid tribute Tuesday to the world's most travelled spaceship, saying it may be some time before there's another vessel that's worthy of the name and capable of venturing farther.
'Alien life' found on meteorites
WASHINGTON - A NASA scientist reports detecting tiny fossilized bacteria on three meteorites, and maintains these microscopic life forms are not native to Earth.
Kepler Space Telescope Finds Bizarre Planetary Systems
A recent look at the data has found one system that could have two planets in the same orbit. A second system has a group of planets in resonance, and the third has planets that all orbit their star in less than a week.
New report exonerates U.S. climate researchers
WASHINGTON — A Commerce Department investigation has found no evidence of wrongdoing on the part of federal climate researchers whose e-mails were leaked in the debate over global climate change.
Earliest human remains discovered in Alaska
Some 11,500 years ago one of America's earliest families laid the remains of a 3-year-old child to rest in their home in what is now Alaska. The discovery of that burial is shedding new light on the life and times of the early settlers who crossed from As
Sexy monkeys wash with own urine
Capuchin monkeys have what at first glance appears to be an odd habit: they urinate onto their hands then rub their urine over their bodies into their fur.
B.C. scientist hopes to extract Amelia Earhart's DNA
More than seven decades after aviator Amelia Earhart disappeared while attempting her ill-fated flight around the world, a British Columbia scientist hopes to extract DNA from letters she wrote to loved ones.
'Music of the stars' now louder
The Kepler space telescope measures the sizes and ages of stars five times better than any other means - when it "listens" to the sounds they make.
Kin of famous Lucy had feet like modern people
Lucy's feet were made for walking.
That's the word from a team of researchers who got a first look at a foot bone from this human relative who lived 3 million or more years ago, and concluded this ancestor was fully comfortable with life on the ground,
Experts follow rare whale from Russia to B.C.
VANCOUVER — A satellite tracking device that's the size of a ballpoint pen and has the power of a child's walkie-talkie is being used to follow one of the world's most endangered whales along its mysterious migration route.
Past Antarctic cooling may help global warming
OSLO - Sea temperatures off the Antarctic Peninsula have cooled over the past 12,000 years, according to a study on Wednesday that may help scientists understand the impact of modern global warming on the frozen continent.
First full view of the sun revealed
The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration on Sunday released the first complete view of the sun's entire surface and atmosphere.
Magnetic Polar Shifts Causing Massive Global Superstorms
NASA has been warning about it…scientific papers have been written about it…geologists have seen its traces in rock strata and ice core samples. Now "it" is here: an unstoppable magnetic pole shift that has sped up and is causing life-threatening havoc wi
Earth could have two suns?Earth could have two suns when Betelgeuse, the second largest star in the constellation Orion, explodes.
Scientist works to grow meat in lab
CHARLESTON, S.C. - In a small laboratory on an upper floor of the basic science building at the Medical University of South Carolina, Vladimir Mironov, M.D., Ph.D., has been working for a decade to grow meat.
Lake Vostok drilling in Antarctic 'running out of time'
With only about 50m left to drill, time is running out for the Russian scientists hoping to drill into Vostok - the world's most enigmatic lake. Vostok is a sub-glacial lake in Antarctica, hidden some 4,000m (13,000ft) beneath the ice sheet.
Ancient body clock keeps all life on time
Scientists have identified the mechanism that controls the internal 24-hour clock of all forms of life -- a finding they say should shed light on some shift work-related problems like diabetes, depression and cancer.
Scientists find earliest galaxy
An international team of astronomers say they have glimpsed the earliest galaxy yet, a smudge of light from nearly 13.2 billion years ago —a time when the cosmos was a far lonelier place.
How a volcano lit a fire that nearly ended life on EarthA mass extinction 250 million years ago was caused by massive volcanic eruptions that burned massive volumes of coal, causing runaway global warming to raise the temperature and acidity of the world's oceans, Alberta researchers say.
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