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NASA Provides Venerable Hubble Hardware to Smithsonian

NASA Provides Venerable Hubble Hardware to Smithsonian

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Two key instruments from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have a new home in the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington after being returned to Earth aboard space shuttle Atlantis ...


Submersibles discover top-secret Japanese submarines

Submersibles discover top-secret Japanese submarines

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity 3.2 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Two World War II Japanese submarines, designed with revolutionary technology to attack the U.S. mainland, have been discovered off the Hawaiian coast of Oʻahu. They are the I-14, which ...


Africa's rarest monkey had an intriguing sexual past, DNA study confirms

Africa's rarest monkey had an intriguing sexual past, DNA study confirms

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 0

The most extensive DNA study to-date of Africa's rarest monkey reveals that the species had an intriguing sexual past. Of the last two remaining populations of the recently discovered kipunji, one population ...


Orphan army ants join nearby colonies

Orphan army ants join nearby colonies

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Colonies of army ants, whose long columns and marauding habits are the stuff of natural-history legend, are usually antagonistic to each other, attacking soldiers from rival colonies in border ...


Study: Man-eating lions consumed 35 people in 1898 (AP)

Notorious 'man-eating' lions of Tsavo likely ate about 35 people -- not 135, scientists say

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

The legendary "man-eating lions of Tsavo" that terrorized a railroad camp in Kenya more than a century ago likely consumed about 35 people--far fewer than popular estimates of 135 victims, according to a new ...


The terrible teens of T. rex

The terrible teens of T. rex

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

We all know adolescents get testy from time to time. Thank goodness we don't have young tyrannosaurs running around the neighborhood.


New analyses of dinosaur growth may wipe out one-third of species

Bye bye 'Hogwarts dinosaur'? New analyses of dinosaur growth may wipe out one-third of species

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Oct 30, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Paleontologists from the University of California, Berkeley, and the Museum of the Rockies have wiped out two species of dome-headed dinosaur, one of them named three years ago - with great ...



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