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NASA Test-Fires Next-Gen Ejector SeatWelcome to the next generation of "ABORT!" NASA test-fired the latest ejector seat for the Space Shuttle replacement this week, sending flames shooting into the Utah sky. To get the crew away from the launch rocket in case of an emergency, the Lau... |
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The Crusade to End a Horrific Disease Costs 10 Cents Per PersonA public health campaign has saved more than 6 million people from filarial worms, which cause elephantiasis and other grotesque maladies, in just eight years. Massive donations from GlaxoSmithKline and Merck, made the victory possible according to a report this week in PLoS Neglected Tro... |
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Fake Lunar Photos Sent Astronomers Over the MoonIf you wanted close-up photos of the moon in the late 1800s, you were pretty much out of luck. Unless, of course, you built incredibly detailed plaster models of lunar craters and then snapped carefully lit pictures of them. And that's exactly what an engineer and astronomer did in 1874 ... |
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Artist Wants Nuke Waste Dump to Make New UniversesThe nuclear waste buried beneath Yucca Mountain will be there for millennia, untouchable and lethal. Conceptual artist Jonathon Keats would put that time and radioactivity to use by turning the dump into a generator of new universes. His plan is based on the laws of quantum physics, which st... |
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Huge Buried Water Glaciers Discovered on MarsGiant glaciers buried under the surface of Mars at much lower latitudes than any previously known ice are a potential source of drinking water for future astronauts. The discovery, made using ground-penetrating radar on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, offers new possibilities in ... |
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Physicists Find Dark Matter, or Something Even More StrangeA new experiment may have found the first direct evidence of dark matter particles, a discovery that could begin to unravel one of the biggest mysteries in physics. Theorists believe that dark matter, made up of of weakly-interacting massive particles, composes 23 percent of the universe, bu... |
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