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Oxygen discovered on planet beyond our solar system Astronomers have detected the first presence of oxygen and carbon in the atmosphere of an extrasolar planet, a world already known to be venting massive amounts of gas into space.
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Rare Ant May Help Solve Some Mysteries Of Social EvolutionLast fall, ecologists at Ohio State University cracked open an acorn they had found in an Ohio park and discovered a colony of extremely rare ants. |
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8 million-year-old whale fossil found in MarylandDays after Hurricane Isabel ravaged the cliffs lining St. Mary's River last year, Jeff DiMeglio and his girlfriend went scouring for shark teeth and found what DiMeglio, an experienced fossil hunter, recognized as the rib of a whale. |
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8 million-year-old whale fossil found in MarylandDays after Hurricane Isabel ravaged the cliffs lining St. Mary's River last year, Jeff DiMeglio and his girlfriend went scouring for shark teeth and found what DiMeglio, an experienced fossil hunter, recognized as the rib of a whale. |
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Kenyan Farmers Discover the InternetKaratina Town seems a long way from Nairobi, Kenya's capital city of three million people. Yet, 100 km away, about a two-hour drive on the country's tattered roads, the town is the food basket of the city. |
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Opportunity lands, sends new Mars picturesScientists received new images of Mars taken by Opportunity early Sunday, just hours after the rover became the second of NASA's twin rovers to successfully land on the barren surface of the red planet. |
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Gates forecasts victory over spamSpam will be a thing of the past in two years' time, Microsoft boss Bill Gates has promised. Spammers - senders of bulk e-mail that mostly offers dubious products or pornography - were innovative, he said. |
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Mars Rover Resumes Sending Data Back to EarthThe Mars rover Spirit resumed sending some data to Earth on Friday, allaying some fears it had failed after two days of garbled communications and periods of intermittent silence, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory said. |
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Researchers create ‘supersolid’RESEARCHERS in the United States believe they have created a new phase of matter - a "supersolid" that flows like a liquid. |
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European Mars Orbiter Sends First Up-Close Pictures of Surface The European Space Agency says its Mars Express orbiter has sent back its first high-resolution pictures of the planet's surface, showing a canyon that may have been shaped by ancient water flow.
Agency officials say they have received a spectacular image of the Valles Marineris, the Grand Canyon of Mars, taken from nearly 300 kilometers above the planet's surface.
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Checks Show Space Station Has No More LeaksAstronauts on the International Space Station have determined a pinhead-sized hole in a hose was the only leak aboard the station that caused a three-week drop in air pressure, Interfax news agency reported Monday. |
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Space Technology In New Technique To Fight Breast CancerA novel non-invasive system for cancer treatment is being developed with technology from the European space industry. The first target for this new treatment, which could be ready as early as 2006, is breast cancer. |
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Spirit probe rolls onto martian surfaceTwelve days after its bouncy arrival on the Red Planet, the robotic rover Spirit has rolled off its landing platform for its first spin on martian soil, steered by Earth-bound NASA engineers sitting 115 million miles away. |
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First Supernova Companion Star Found A joint European/University of Hawaii team of astronomers has for the first time observed a stellar 'survivor' to emerge from a double star system involving an exploded supernova.
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Ancient discoveries
- Exciting stone tool find in Kenya
- NASA satellite helps find 17 Egypt pyramids
- Vietnam’s own ‘great wall’ uncovered
- New Type of Ancient Human Found - Descendants Live Today?
- New discoveries concerning pre-Columbian settlements in the Amazon
- Ultraviolet light reveals how Greek statues really looked
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Breakthroughs in Technology
- Safer vaccine created without virus
- New Microscopy Technique Can See The Lengths Of Atomic Bonds
- Mind-controlled helicopter aids concentration
- Fighting cancer with cell phones
- Amputee Climbs 103 Stories Using Mind-Controlled Bionic Leg
- New Water Treatment Process Could Help Bring Dead Zones Back to Life
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