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Biggest ever cosmos simulationAstronomers have used supercomputers to re-create how the Universe evolved into the shape it is today. |
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Andromeda galaxy 3 times bigger than previously thought: astronomersThe Andromeda galaxy, our nearest major galactic neighbor in the universe, has a rotating nebula of stars three times bigger than previously measured, US astronomers said Monday. |
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Telescope seeks life in outer spaceThe first telescope designed to search for alien life began operating this month from northern California. |
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Solar Sail Spacecraft Launch Set for JuneThe Planetary Society, a U.S. nonprofit group devoted to space exploration, plans to launch the world's first solar sail spacecraft as early as June 21. |
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‘Slime worlds’ may reflect signs of life"Slime worlds" may prove excellent targets for the search for extraterrestrial life, according to new calculations. |
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Voyager I spacecraft enters solar system’s final frontierNASA's Voyager I spacecraft has entered the final frontier of our solar system and is cruising its way to a vast area marking the beginning of interstellar space. |
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Japan Plans X-Ray Telescope LaunchJapan's space agency said Wednesday it plans to launch a satellite carrying X-ray telescopes into Earth's orbit as early as next month to study black holes and far-flung galaxies. |
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Scientists finds Mars lander lost in 1999A San Diego company believes it has identified NASA's lost Mars Polar Lander near the Red Planet's south pole. |
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Twelve New Moons for SaturnWith the powerful Cassini orbiter in place at Saturn, it's easy to forget that scientists can still study the ringed planet from the Earth. |
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India completes historic satellite launchIt was a historic day for India's space programme. |
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Mars Express to deploy ‘divining rod’ at lastThe hunt for water on Mars is going underground with the long-awaited deployment of a "divining rod" antenna on Europe's Mars Express spacecraft. |
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First picture of a planet outside our solar systemAstronomers have captured the first picture of a planet orbiting a star beyond our own solar system with a technique that could soon open the way to seeing into other worlds with extraterrestrial life. |
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Cassini Space Probe Sees Earth’s Past In TitanThe Cassini probe, which circles Saturn's moon, Titan, continues to find information which many scientists believe could be quite similar to Earth in it's primordial past. |
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Yellowstone find could unlock Mars cluesA bizarre community of microbes has been discovered inside rocks in Yellowstone National Park, thriving in pores filled with water so acidic it can dissolve steel nails. |
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- New technologies detect seizures, and could possibly even eliminate them
- Floating wind turbines to produce low cost renewable energy
- Device invented that can detect infectious disease in minutes
- American Scientists Make Great Leap in Battery Technology
- New system could eventually ‘eliminate’ batteries
- Digital tools ‘to save languages’
- Transplant jaw made by 3D printer claimed as first
- The Cleanweb Takes Off
- Personal medicine is a little bit closer: Sequence your genome for under $1000
- 2012 Doomsday Predictions Debunked by NASA
- New discovery could lead to better artificial hips
- New plasma “brush” may mean painless cavity filling
- First Earth-sized planets spotted
- Artificial Intestines near reality
- Yoav Medan: Ultrasound surgery—healing without cuts
- Harnessing desert sun to power Europe
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