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Seattle team wins $900,000 in Space Elevator Games
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(AP) -- A Seattle team has collected a $900,000 prize in a NASA-backed competition to develop the concept of an elevator to space - an idea spurred by science fiction novels.
Russian rocket to launch from French Guiana in 2010
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A Russian rocket will next year for the first time blast off from a European launch pad in South America, officials said Saturday, as the first rockets headed for the site on board a ship.
'Dropouts' pinpoint earliest galaxies
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Astronomers, conducting the broadest survey to date of galaxies from about 800 million years after the Big Bang, have found 22 early galaxies and confirmed the age of one by its characteristic hydrogen signature ...
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The politics of climate fixes
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In a Galaxy Far, Far Away...
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Station Prepares For New Spacecraft, Monitors Debris
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Kepler Mission Update
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Rosetta approach on schedule
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New Digital 'Electronics' Concept May Continue Moore's Law,
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Tiny Music Player Made from Wire Bridge (w/ Video),
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Stars Fueled by Dark Matter Could Hold Secrets to the Universe,
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Creating a six-qubit cluster state,
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Second Law of Thermodynamics May Explain Economic Evolution,
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Hylas payload shipped to India
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Hylas, a flexible, broadband Ka-band satellite, is steadily moving towards completion. The communications payload has been shipped from England to India for integration with the platform, ...
Mars: Chaotic terrain between Kasei Valles and Sacra Fossae
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Mars Express flew over the boundary between Kasei Valles and Sacra Fossae and imaged the region, acquiring spectacular views of the chaotic terrain in the area.
Past climate of the northern Antarctic Peninsular informs global warming debate
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The seriousness of current global warming is underlined by a reconstruction of climate at Maxwell Bay in the South Shetland Islands of the Antarctic Peninsula over approximately the last 14,000 years, which ...
States call on EPA for tougher air pollution regulations
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Twelve states and the District of Columbia urged the Environmental Protection Agency Thursday to adopt more rigorous national policies so they can meet federal air pollution reduction requirements for the region.
The greening of Willis Tower: Rooftop gardens part of plan to improve efficiency
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Growing up in the southwest suburbs, Sara Beardsley had a view of the Chicago skyline from her house. Today, she is transforming that skyline, but you won't find her work glorified on a $6 mug or gracing postcards.
Caribbean, Gulf spared widespread coral damage
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(AP) -- Lower-than-feared sea temperatures this summer gave a break to fragile coral reefs across the Caribbean and the central Gulf of Mexico that were damaged in recent years, scientists said Thursday.
Success in 'space elevator' competition (Update 3)
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(AP) -- A robot powered by a ground-based laser beam climbed a long cable dangling from a helicopter on Wednesday to qualify for prize money in a $2 million competition to test the potential reality of the ...
Space hotel taking bookings for 2012 opening
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The first orbiting space hotel is on track to open for its first customers in 2012, but hurry, as bookings are filling fast.
Rapid supernova could be new class of exploding star
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(PhysOrg.com) -- An unusual supernova rediscovered in seven-year-old data may be the first example of a new type of exploding star, possibly from a binary star system where helium flows from one white dwarf ...
Starring Intelligent Aliens
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The most probable place to find intelligent life in the galaxy is around stars very similar to our sun, a new study has found.
3 Questions: Sergey Paltsev on the costs of climate-change legislation
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Sergey Paltsev, a principal research scientist in MIT’s Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, was the lead author of a recent report that analyzed the costs of climate legislation currently ...
Airborne nitrogen shifts aquatic nutrient limitation in pristine lakes
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The impact of airborne nitrogen released from the burning of fossil fuels and wide-spread use of fertilizers in agriculture is much greater that previously recognized and even extends to remote alpine lakes, ...
Hubble Image Showcases Star Birth in M83, the Southern Pinwheel
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The spectacular new camera installed on NASA's Hubble Space Telescope during Servicing Mission 4 in May has delivered the most detailed view of star birth in the graceful, curving arms of ...
Unusual meteorite found by time-lapse camera observatory
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(PhysOrg.com) -- An unusual meteorite with an interesting orbit has been tracked to the ground using a photographic observatory that records time-lapse images of fireballs traveling across the sky.
Climate Change, Nitrogen Loss Threaten Plant Life in Arid Desert Soils
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In the Mojave Desert winds howl across this hottest place in North America, blowing sands across Death Valley and through empty ghost towns, swirling across treeless land for hundreds of miles. ...
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Frost-Covered Phoenix Lander Seen in Winter Images
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Researchers hail innovative plan to save rainforest, reduce greenhouse gas emissions
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Samoan tsunami was too close to prevent deaths: research
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What's in our water?
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Nocturnal wind maximum mapped for first time
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New type of supernova explosion reported; predicted by theoretical physicists at UCSB
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Coral reefs inspire rare consensus -- just save them
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Tackling new Arctic challenges from space
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Are the Alps growing or shrinking?
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German high-school students involved in an astronomical research project
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'Whitewash' could slow global warming: Peruvian scientist
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Earthquakes actually aftershocks of 19th century quakes
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Study says dogs have larger carbon footprint than SUV
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Calm before the spawn: Climate change and coral spawning
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Hidden Territory on Mercury Revealed
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Carbon Atmosphere Discovered on Neutron Star
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Spacesuits with artificial intelligence may look for life on Mars
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Unsettled Youth: Spitzer Observes a Chaotic Planetary System
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Scientists prepare for large-scale glacial floods (w/ Video)
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Successful Flight Through Enceladus Plume (w/ Video)
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