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'Curiosity': NASA Selects Student's Entry as New Mars Rover Name
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Mars Science Laboratory rover, scheduled for launch in 2011, has a new name, thanks to a sixth-grade student from Kansas. Twelve-year-old Clara Ma from the Sunflower Elementary school ...
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Pa. symphony seeks soloist via YouTube contest
(AP) -- Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra officials insist it's not "American Idol" meets Mozart.
Feb 09, 2012 |
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Hundreds of gamers flock to Brazil tech fest
Hundreds of geeks and gamers braved Sao Paulo's torrid heat Tuesday to play online video games at the fifth edition of Brazil's Campus Party, an annual, week-long technology fest.
Feb 08, 2012 |
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China unveils high resolution global moon map
Chinese scientists have assembled the highest resolution map ever created of the entire Moon and unveiled a series of global Moon images on Monday, Feb. 6.
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Feb 08, 2012 |
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GRAIL returns first video from moon's far side
(PhysOrg.com) -- A camera aboard one of NASA's twin Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) lunar spacecraft has returned its first unique view of the far side of the moon. MoonKAM, or Moon Knowledge ...
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Feb 01, 2012 |
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Facebook shows relentless global growth
In country after country, Facebook is toppling the incumbent local social network in what seems like an unstoppable march to global dominance.
Jan 18, 2012 |
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Students rename NASA moon probes Ebb and Flow
A pair of unmanned NASA spacecraft that are orbiting the Moon were renamed Ebb and Flow on Tuesday by a middle school class in Montana, the US space agency announced.
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Jan 17, 2012 |
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Don't know much about charter schools
Some two decades into the grand national experiment with charter schools, how much do we really know about them? Not all that much. And not nearly as much as we easily could, say researchers from the University of California, ...
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Jan 12, 2012 |
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Twin Grail spacecraft reunite in lunar orbit
(PhysOrg.com) -- The second of NASA's two Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) spacecraft has successfully completed its planned main engine burn and is now in lunar orbit. Working together, GRAIL-A ...
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Jan 02, 2012 |
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Stanford archaeologist questions the role of human rights in site preservation
In the arid, rural plains of central Turkey sits one of the most important archaeological sites on earth. Sheltered by an expansive glass canopy, dozens of archaeologists and students work year-round to unearth ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jan 02, 2012 |
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Twin probes to circle moon to study gravity field
The moon has come a long way since Galileo first peered at it through a telescope. Unmanned probes have circled around it and landed on its surface. Twelve American astronauts have walked on it. And lunar ...
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Dec 26, 2011 |
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