Antimatter and dark matter detector travels to space station - Yahoo! News

Seeded on Wed May 25, 2011 11:29 AM EDT (Yahoo! News)

For years, scientists have ridiculed NASA's claim that the International Space Station (or ISS) is a grand platform for groundbreaking research - and plenty of the science done there has just reinforced that attitude.

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Two and a half men: Charlie Sheen out, Ashton Kutcher in. Questions

Fri May 13, 2011 11:55 PM EDT

So here we are. Two and a half men, Charlie Sheen (as Charlie Harper) is out and Ashton Kutcher is the replacement.

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How a NASA Experiment Proves Einstein Right, Again - Yahoo! News

Seeded on Wed May 11, 2011 3:29 PM EDT (Yahoo! News)

"Lights All Askew in the Heavens," proclaimed a headline in the New York Times on Nov. 10, 1919. The reason: results had just come in from the very first test of Albert Einstein's new general theory of relativity.

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6 Wackiest Osama bin Laden Conspiracy Theories - Yahoo! News

Seeded on Mon May 9, 2011 1:07 PM EDT (Yahoo! News)

Prince William and Kate Middleton got a heads up about the raid and thus postponed their honeymoon. Osama Bin Laden worked for the CIA. He is not dead; no, wait—he was already dead. Josh Dzieza on six crazy theories about what really went on with the al Qaeda mastermind.

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Six Planets Now Aligned in the Dawn Sky - Yahoo! News

Seeded on Thu Apr 28, 2011 4:47 PM EDT (Yahoo! News)

If you get up any morning for the next few weeks, you’ll be treated to the sight of all the planets except Saturn arrayed along the ecliptic, the path of the sun through the sky.

science, moon, astronomy, photography, planets, planetary-alignment, astro-photography

First Stars in Universe May Have Spun Like Crazy - Yahoo! News

Seeded on Thu Apr 28, 2011 1:20 PM EDT (Yahoo! News)

The first stars in the universe may have been extraordinarily fast spinners, whirling at more than a million miles per hour, scientists say.

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Calif. woman shows off newly transplanted hand

Seeded on Wed Apr 20, 2011 4:18 PM EDT (Yahoo! News)

For the first time in five years, Emily Fennell has two hands. The 26-year-old single mother, who lost her right hand in a car accident, showed off her newly donated hand Tuesday while flanked by a team of transplant doctors.

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Satellites help scientists discover 657 new islands

Seeded on Wed Apr 20, 2011 11:31 AM EDT (Yahoo! News)

You might think that we already know about more or less all of the land masses on Earth, but you'd be wrong. A new study by researchers from Duke University and Meredith College of the globe's geography has revealed the existence of 657 new islands, reports Our Amazing Planet.

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NASA awards funds to develop commercial space taxis

Seeded on Wed Apr 20, 2011 11:27 AM EDT (Yahoo! News)

NASA divided up more than $269 million on Monday among several companies vying to build commercial spaceships to carry astronauts to the International Space Station, the space agency said.

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Some Alien Planets May Be Like Saturn's Moon Titan

Seeded on Tue Apr 19, 2011 11:33 PM EDT (space.com)

Alien planets in orbit around red dwarfs, and even rogue planets with no stars to call home, might have surface oceans loaded with organic compounds, making them similar to Saturn's moon Titan, a new study suggests.

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Primitive Sea Creature Sports Eyes Made of Rock

Seeded on Tue Apr 19, 2011 6:31 PM EDT (Live Science)

A tiny sea mollusk uses eyes made of a calcium carbonate crystal to spot predators lurking above, researchers say of the first such rocky lenses found in the animal kingdom.

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Planets With Two Suns Could Grow Black Trees

Seeded on Tue Apr 19, 2011 11:47 AM EDT (Yahoo! News)

Luke Skywalker's home planet of Tatooine is a vivid desert world under two suns, but it may be missing one key detail: black trees.

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Numbers Indicate Yellowstone Supervolcano Eruption Could Cause Devastation

Seeded on Mon Apr 18, 2011 1:05 PM EDT (Yahoo! News)

Researchers have recently uncovered evidence that the volcano underneath Yellowstone National Park is actually a supervolcano.

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China Mulls Building a Moon Rocket

Seeded on Mon Apr 18, 2011 12:45 PM EDT (Yahoo! News)

Rumors that China is considering building a super heavy lift rocket received a boost recently when Liang Xiaohong, vice head of the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology mentioned to Xinhua that it was being looked into.

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Smugglers find creative ways to move contraband

Seeded on Fri Apr 15, 2011 1:30 PM EDT (Yahoo! News)

The package surprised even veteran law enforcement officials used to seeing all kinds of contraband smuggled into prisons: It was a child's coloring book, dedicated "to daddy" and mailed to a New Jersey inmate, with crayon-colored scribbling made from a paste containing drugs.

drugs, smuggling, surveillance, us-news, contraband

Long Shot: NASA Contractor Could Keep Flying Space Shuttles

Seeded on Fri Apr 15, 2011 1:10 PM EDT (Yahoo! News)

While NASA is already planning the particulars of how to retire its space shuttles —– including announcing this week which museums will get to display them — a bid to continue flying the orbiters as a commercial service is still in the works, even if it is considered a long …

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Satellite Photographs 'Black Hole' on Earth

Seeded on Fri Apr 15, 2011 1:02 PM EDT (Yahoo! News)

A Korean satellite has caught an eye-catching view of an island in Mexico known for a deep, rocky hole and waters so dark that they earned it the name Holbox, a name that means "black hole."

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Quantum Leap: Bits of Light Teleported to Another Place

Seeded on Thu Apr 14, 2011 4:28 PM EDT (Yahoo! News)

Our world is getting closer to "Star Trek" every day, it seems. Scientists announced today (April 14) they've been able to teleport special bits of light from one place to another, a la "Beam me up, Scotty."

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Moon Express Proposes Lunar Mining Operations

Seeded on Thu Apr 14, 2011 12:19 PM EDT (Yahoo! News)

No one has been on the moon since 1972. The last human-made object to soft land on the lunar surface was a Soviet built rover in the mid-1970s. U.S. President Barack Obama has specifically ruled out the moon as a destination for Americans.

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Branson to work as AirAsia stewardess after losing bet

Seeded on Thu Apr 14, 2011 12:13 AM EDT (Yahoo! News)

British billionaire Richard Branson will dress and serve as a stewardess on Malaysian budget carrier AirAsia X on May 1 after losing a Grand Prix bet with the founder of the airline.

branson, grand-prix, world-news, bet, kuala-lampur, stewardess, sir-richard-branson, airasia-x

ID scans, cameras proposed for San Francisco clubs

Seeded on Wed Apr 13, 2011 7:13 PM EDT (Yahoo! News)

San Francisco officials may require nightclubs in this notoriously liberal city to scan identities of visitors and have cameras record comings and goings at establishments.

record, san-francisco, liberal, surveillance, us-news, big-brother, due-process, night-clubs, freedom-of-association

Sheen says he may return to 'Two and a Half Men'

Seeded on Wed Apr 13, 2011 5:23 PM EDT (Yahoo! News)

Charlie Sheen says he may be reunited with "Two and a Half Men."

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Private Rocket Firm Under Pressure to Fill Space Shuttle Void

Seeded on Wed Apr 13, 2011 4:24 PM EDT (space.com)

Private rocket builder SpaceX is trying to speed up testing of its new Dragon spaceship to enable it to visit the International Space Station on the next demonstration flight.

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Want to Get Lucky On a First Date? Go Out With a Hard Rock Fan

Seeded on Wed Apr 13, 2011 3:00 PM EDT (TIME)

Trying to figure out if you might get lucky tonight? Ask your date what kind of music he or she listens to.

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Warped Space-Time Around Black Holes Visualized

Seeded on Wed Apr 13, 2011 12:17 PM EDT (Yahoo! News)

For the first time, physicists have visualized what goes on during the collision of two black holes, providing insight into what one researcher calls the "stormy behavior" of space and time during such a merger.

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